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[Roland]

Because they emit light from heated gas at the fringe (event horizon?). But I'll leave that to the physics guys to describe in appropriate gibberish.

[Zoid]

Nope. I don´t think heated gas has anything to do with it. Not even light can escape the clutches of gravity.

[Roland]

I may well be confusing things there - when you say not dark, do you mean light or also the roentgen and other stuff ?

[Vesayen]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
Very simple - squeeze him in!
They tried pushing him in to no avail. They then pushed on his swelled abdominal wall. (BIG mistake!)

Guess what?

William the Conqueror's body burst like a popped balloon! The pus and putrefaction drenched the King's burial garb. The stench filled the chapel. The mourners raced for the doors with their hands covering their noses. (I wasn't even there and I can imagine the smell!) Needless to say, they buried him very quickly! His body was allowed to rot in peace until 1562 when the Huguenots dug him up and threw his bones all over the courtyard.

[Zoid]

I mean radiation.

[Vesayen]

Originally posted by Paul Hanson
Yippee!

My question is: which US president hold the record for the shortest presidency ever, and how long was it?

Zachory Tailor........(I think)he was vice president, or speaker for the house and the president, and vice president(everyone who was above him in the line of succesion) were temporarily out of the country, so he was the pres for like an hour(while he slept).

[Victor Galis]

Taylor was president for a couple of years.

Though I do remember hearing about one guy who was speaker of the house, who became president for one day, because the old president left a day early, and there was a day before the next president came in.

[Vesayen]

It could be the wrong guy but I think it was Zachory Tailor when he was speaker of the house, and the pres was "on his day off"(didnt work on Sunday, religious) and the vice pres was out of the country.

[Roland]

Well part from an interim president, there was one who died a few days after inauguration. I always associate "Garfield" with that story, but that may be a brain error....

[Zoid]

What about Garfield? He only held office for four months IIRC.

Edit: Cross post

[Victor Galis]

No, that was William Henry Harrison. Didn't wear a hat to his inauguration. Gave a very long speech in the cold weather. Died of pneumonia I think in about 31 days afterwards.

Garfield, I think lasted a whole 6-8 months before being shot.

[Ramo]

Well John Lackland was a vassal of the Pope. Doesn't necessarily say much.

I seem to recall the King of Navarra getting his ass kicked along with the rest of the French nobility at Crecy...

Black holes are called just that because they don´t emit any light. Still they aren´t exactly black, why is that?

The basic idea is that black holes can be described as a linear combination of energy eigenstates. Which leads us to believe that there's an entropy, and therefore a temperature associated with it.

[Ramo]

I think Harrison had two months after inauguration, BTW.

[Zoid]

Originally posted by Ramo

The basic idea is that black holes can be described as a linear combination of energy eigenstates. Which leads us to believe that there's an entropy, and therefore a temperature associated with it.

Maybe I was unclear (I am a layman after all...) I´m after a certain quantum mechanical process(?). Name that process

Edit: It´s also that process wich eventually leads to the evaporation of the black hole.

[Roland]

"I seem to recall the King of Navarra getting his ass kicked along with the rest of the French nobility at Crecy... "

Which King ? Charles the Evil (who already ruled in 1346 I think) was allied with the Black Prince and Peter the Cruel of Castile. He switched sides a couple times (he was from the Capetingian family after all) but the one you may mean who died at Crecy was John of Bohemia....