Random Thoughts 9: Attack of the Vapid Posts

[Kaitzilla]

how does something moving faster increase its gravity?

@Kaitzilla and other doubters of the power of black holes - if light and entire suns can get sucked in, surely 5kg of bowling ball is nothing. assume it collides with the solid mass in the center of the black hole still going .99c - so what? that mass is not going to split apart, gravitational force is too strong. nothing would escape. instability? extra gamma/hawking radiation spike maybe? nothing else is possible, surely.

A baseball moving at a mere 0.9c would obliterate a small city.
https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/

God's bowling ball has the rest-mass-of-an-observable-universe-converted-to-energy worth of kinetic energy (mainly because there is no theoretical limit on kinetic energy, so technically it can exist)
It has dozens of orders of magnitude more energy than the mushroom-cloud baseball.
It has dozens of orders of magnitude more energy than our star gives out over its entire life.

The singularity at the heart of a black hole can't even compare to the energy in God's bowling ball.
The collision would be unbelievable.

But according to all laws of physics, the black hole would swallow God's bowling ball just fine.

I just find it hard to believe.
The singularity would be accelerated from rest to 99.99999999% lightspeed almost instantly from the collision as near as I can tell.
Can the event horizon and gravity really contain what just occurred in there?

 

[The_J]

I'm unsure if someone tried to break into my apartment yesterday or not o_O.
Around noon I heard someone messing around with keys in front of my door. I was confused, since the landlord had not called. I opened the door, where 3 guys in there 20s were standing. One of them said something in French, I indicated that they were there for some sort of maintenance, which was not fully credible. They had the address written down, but this building is #B, and they were looking for #A. Then they simply left.
I wondered why yesterday, and yesterday I had forgotten to open the window to the street, which I normally do.

Yesterday evening my ex got mad at me for even opening the door (she might have been right).
Now I told the landlord. After some thinking he said I should maybe report it to the police.
Well... that's gonna be interesting .

EDIT: -> reported online.

 

[choxorn]

how does something moving faster increase its gravity?

It doesn't. I misremembered my GR.

 

[Kyriakos]

I'm unsure if someone tried to break into my apartment yesterday or not o_O.
Around noon I heard someone messing around with keys in front of my door. I was confused, since the landlord had not called. I opened the door, where 3 guys in there 20s were standing.

Can't have been that hardened thieves, since you are still alive and able to identify them

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Spoiler :

I am so confused on why these are in my Calibre library. Or more specifically, why I felt the need to add them to my library at some point in the past.

 

[EgonSpengler]

Watching Juve and Milan in the Coppa Italia semis. Kind of weird without a crowd. I liked MMA without any fans, but soccer's a bit surreal this way.

Good lord. Buffon is still playing? Wait, what year is this?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

One of these news items caught me a bit off guard.

 

[Takhisis]

The polyamory thing, right? It's OK to be a traditionalist.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2020/0...ter-spending-whole-day-accomplishing-nothing/

same

 

[Synobun]

I read a funny joke today that Portuguese sounds like a Russian speaking Spanish.

 

[The_J]

Na, Portugese just sound like Russian ^^.

 

[Synobun]

It's always strange to read books or see media that makes references to something in your own life. One or two things, it's just neat. But then sometimes it keeps making references to multiple areas of your experience and it quickly becomes disconcerting.

I read a book yesterday about a cult, and in the very first passage it talks about how the co-founder was a used car salesman. I was going to laugh and send a screenshot to @Timsup2nothin about it, like hey, you could have started a cult instead, man. Then I keep reading and one of the families in the cult came from Ocala, and I have a friend who is from Ocala too. I keep reading some more, and there's another guy, and this guy was in the Navy, assigned to a nuclear sub in the Pacific. More Tim! And this Navy guy muses that, given the financial constraints, he might just have to pick up bank-robbing. Hilarious.

Anyways, the book itself was kinda meh. But this kind of thing is amusing when it gets excessive in its entirely coincidental connections and references.

 

[H4run]

It's always strange to read books or see media that makes references to something in your own life. One or two things, it's just neat. But then sometimes it keeps making references to multiple areas of your experience and it quickly becomes disconcerting.

I read a book yesterday about a cult, and in the very first passage it talks about how the co-founder was a used car salesman. I was going to laugh and send a screenshot to @Timsup2nothin about it, like hey, you could have started a cult instead, man. Then I keep reading and one of the families in the cult came from Ocala, and I have a friend who is from Ocala too. I keep reading some more, and there's another guy, and this guy was in the Navy, assigned to a nuclear sub in the Pacific. More Tim! And this Navy guy muses that, given the financial constraints, he might just have to pick up bank-robbing. Hilarious.

Anyways, the book itself was kinda meh. But this kind of thing is amusing when it gets excessive in its entirely coincidental connections and references.

The blatant connection to Tim is too strong to shrug it off as a mere coincident, there is a conspiracy going on in this forum, I always knew it, a false messiah currently in the making.

 

[W|M]

I read a funny joke today that Portuguese sounds like a Russian speaking Spanish.

European Portuguese sounds like that. Brazilian Portuguese is very different

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Starting a cult is slowly rising to the top of my to-do list.

 

[Takhisis]

But L. Ron Hubbard already did that. And, in fact, he called himself the ‘Commodore’ of the seagoing Scientologists…

 

[amadeus]

Commodore made some good computers and made them affordable. The Amiga? Wow! How they failed is still a mystery to me.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Starting a cult is slowly rising to the top of my to-do list.

But to do that you would probably have to write some kind of book.....

 

[amadeus]

Why start a cult when you can just have a megachurch? No book writing (or reading!) requisite.

Reclining pews with the 64oz cupholders. You know, because the faithful are thirsty and that communion wine isn’t gonna last ya three hours of a sermon.

Honey, where are we parked? Oh, we’re in the Book of Matthew lot. Is the gift shop still open? My glow in the dark Jesus phone charger needs a new battery. Oh, this escalator only goes to the food court.

Something seems wrong to me about any church that needs to put the pastor on the Jumbotron.

 

[H4run]

The first 30 second is my rant, but the rave thing is, tomorrow at night I'm going to meet my parent and stay for couples of day there.