First PX, now this...

[Toutatis]

To those whom seem to have missed the point:

Folks! It's an INTENTIONAL JOKE!!!


What, for instance, does the following excerpt (from the OP) signify to you???

"I was out back just looking up with my naked eyes when I could see Pluto being mugged from behind by a galactic robber."

To make no mention of several other ‘conceptual malapropisms” unworthy of comment here…

Anyway, was there a singularity so near as the inner reaches of the Kuiper belt - no matter how 'small' - *TRUST ME* we'd ALL have been long since gathered to our 'foreparents'!!! - Dontcha jus' love it when I get all 'PC'-like

Geeezzzze!!!!!

Best
Sarandon

[WolfKC]

‘conceptual malapropisms”

Hey watch your language! There may be kids on this forum so we dont need to talk about conception of malapropisms! And what's this talk about joking?

[Archer17]

Toutatis doesn't mince words. I allow him the occasional "malapropism"

[dgruss23]

‘conceptual malapropisms”

Hey watch your language! There may be kids on this forum so we dont need to talk about conception of malapropisms! And what's this talk about joking?

Really Toutatis!! That you would bring up such vocabulary on this board is just a ridiculous misuse of words!! I can't believe it.

Ok, I refer people here if it is unclear why what I just wrote is a miserable attempt at ironic humor.

Sorry Toutatis!

[Toutatis]

By the phrase ''conceptual malapropisms" I intended analogy (i.e. - to my eyes - the purveyor of the 'black hole' joke was taking liberties with concept even as a malapropism abuses language via misapplication of words... But then ya already *knew* that RIGHT!?


FWIW - "Repulsion by solar magnetism" (paraphrase) being the ''conceptual malapropism" which had me rollin' on the floor - Errr... with LAUGHTER that is)

But now I've said too much...

Best
"Touty"

[Outcast]

We decided to ask amateur astronomer Mr ScOrPiOn his thoughts "When you look at all of the recent earth changes it all falls into place. I knew all along it was a black hole but my colleagues at some website doubted my infinite wisdom." He went on " I tell it like I see it. I was right you know."

parody?

[Sigma_Orionis]

Yep, no question about, it it's a parody

[Grand Vizier]

Sure, they are powerful things. Of course, I'm no expert, but from my limited knowledge I know that these things are pretty nasty pieces of work. The closest one list around 1600 light years away... quite a distance! Considering the size of a black hole, it's most unlikely one will approach the Earth within... well, billions of years I'd say, let alone our lifetimes. Personally, I don't have time to worry about that!

You know, if we did have a black hole in the neighbourhood, I don't think it would actually be a cause for worry. We'd be making plans to send space probes ASAP and speculating on all the great new physics that might come out of the investigation. We'd be celebrating.

Basically, black holes do sound bizarre, but they can from a distance be treated as a gravitational point mass - just like a planet or star. They will obey Newtonian mechanics just like anything else (except Planet X, of course!) Potentially, they could be nasty if they're big enough and in a dense enough environment to attract lots of infalling matter - for example, from a companion star like Cygnus X-1 is thought to do. This will form an accretion disk and lead to intense radiation outbursts as the matter compresses on the way in. Bad news for life on Earth.

But we know that there is no large black hole (of stellar mass) close into the solar system for the same reason that we know Planet X is a load of hooey. The orbital dynamics of our system are just too stable. But you could have a black hole of, say, brown dwarf mass a long way out or of planetary mass on the edges of the Kuiper Belt.

The problem is that there is no theory that would account for the formation of black holes that small (and I wonder how much Hawking radiation a black hole about the size of the earth would put out?) so I'd, reluctantly, conclude that there are none nearby.

We'll just have to develop interstellar travel to get a good look at one

[MCIK]

that guy's a comedy genius!

had a good laugh reading that, hehe.

[Toutatis]

The Grand Vizier wrote:

You know, if we did have a black hole in the neighbourhood, I don't think it would actually be a cause for worry. We'd be making plans to send space probes ASAP and speculating on all the great new physics that might come out of the investigation. We'd be celebrating.

UN HUH! --- With the qualification that the Kuiper belt is just a tad TOO 'Neighborly'!!!

IOW: Not now! I'm right in the middle of a Schwarzschild (radius)! --- Alas, how singular the metric!

Yep, I hear yas! - No Improv for me anytime soon...

Latah
Sarandon