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No, I'd rather enjoy my 'golden years' rather than get sucked into a black hole, duh.
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CERN: The World's Greatest Thrill Ride, "Everyones coming! Whether you like it or not!"be freeComment
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Silver lining, always look for the silver lining Frosty...
Hmm.
Got it, black holes don't discriminate.
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I guess the same sort of possibility that exists that some high energy cosmic particle will hit the atmosphere of some planet/star at exactly the right way to create a black hole to doom us.Originally posted by Lancer
Three days left. That is on the third day they turn it on, the 10th.
Likely nothing that science can possibly observe will happen but the possibility exists that a black hole will be born that in the coming years will accrue enough mass to, at the very end, quickly consume the planet.
Maybe there is something that makes it higher, but I haven't heard of anything reasonable.
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To any black hole created
I say lets **** it,
If it wants a barney will give it one
One swift knee in the happysacks and it 'll drop like anyone elseSpace is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
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If CERN creates a black hole, how long will it take till it swallows our earth? (approximately of course)"An archaeologist is the best husband a women can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her." - Agatha Christie
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form what I have heard it will be too small even to swallow George W's brainOriginally posted by Traianvs
If CERN creates a black hole, how long will it take till it swallows our earth? (approximately of course)Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
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I read it would be so small that it would take between 5 and 1000 years. I gather it depends on its speed. Any black hole created that moves at less than 250,000 miles per secondOriginally posted by Traianvs
If CERN creates a black hole, how long will it take till it swallows our earth? (approximately of course)
I think it was second, would be captured by earths gravity. 250,000 whatevers is escape velocity. If its at the high end of that it won't orbit through the earth as much as if its at the low end. Slow moving, 5 years. Fast moving, 1000 years. Of course, CERN has the potential to make many such.
Jon Miller, any black hole created by cosmic rays would be traveling at near light speed. That's why black holes created in this manner are never a problem. You might not consider that reasonable...
The theory is that the cosmic ray is moving really quick, and the particle it hits is fairly stationary, hanging out up in the atmosphere. So like a cue ball hitting another ball, the other ball(the black hole) goes shooting off the other way. However the Hadron collider is shooting cue balls in oppsite directions and having them smash in the middle, where two cue balls will pretty much stop, and not go shooting away. Now you have a black hole not moving too fast away from the Earth and captured by its gravity.
Through most of the earth's remaining life the black hole could pass through your body and you would never even notice. However as it orbits within the earth it collides with matter on a rare, random basis and obsorbs it.
TheStinger, it doesn't suck stuff in during this phase as one would normally concieve a black hole doing, you are correct. It increases to that threshold by direct collisions with normal matter.
Only at the very end of the Earth's life is it drawing matter into itself. Then it will be over very quick, with "only an earthquake or two warning".
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1000 years? Bleh, nuff time to build spaceships and colonize other planets
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The earth won't be destroyed until 2 seconds after the Cubs win the World Series. So we've got until at least late October.I'm consitently stupid- Japher
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I figure 2012, just cuz.
Just cuz that's the year I retire.Long time member @ Apolyton
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But Lancer, if there were a lot of Black holes flying about, don't you think we would see evidence of this?
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The evil Swiss are obviously not just manipulating space but time as wellOriginally posted by Theben
In late 1212? The black hole is also going to cause the Earth to travel backwards in time 800 years?
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They are weally teeny weeny and moving weely weely fast.Originally posted by Jon Miller
But Lancer, if there were a lot of Black holes flying about, don't you think we would see evidence of this?
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