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A new x-ray telescope has discovered a new object.
A Black Hole that is near (45 quadzillion miles away) to the Earth.
Apparently its only 19 years old.
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I suppose on a scale of 1 - 10 its a 2 or 3.
I was hoping for sex starved invading aliens. (I'd probabloy shag one of the lizardy ones from "V", providing she kept her mask on, and didnt eat me.) But I am glad that its not just another new bit of flotsam floating around. And when is the new collider going to explode / make a new dimention? its boring just whizzing things around- glorified merri-go-round.
(bugboy, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:00, 4 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

BLACK HOOOOLE!
nice
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:00, Reply)

I'm not worried about this black hole as I remember when I was a kid, if it looks like it's going to be a problem all we have to do is throw three Shredded Wheat at it.

Job done.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:03, Reply)

That is utterly unexciting isn't it?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:01, Reply)

I think you'd be more interested in a 20 year old black hole, eh, old boy?
-wiggles arse-
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:02, Reply)

Damn right baby.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:03, Reply)

How are you, bbz?

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:06, Reply)

Fucking DYING, bbz.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:08, Reply)

I'm so sorry.
If you can get to Euston for about half nine I'll buy you a pint.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:09, Reply)

xxxx

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:25, Reply)

I am serious, donchano.

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:27, Reply)

Curse you and your gaping anus
this made me spit diet coke all over my keyboard.
(berk, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:15, Reply)

If only this had come out literally 2 months ago
and I could have kept it at "19 year old"
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:16, Reply)

Oh FFS!
bang goes the sexy alien theory
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:01, Reply)

no valves either :-(

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:02, Reply)

19 years old?
This is, in principle, fascinating. And if we've only just discovered it, then it can only be 19 light-years away from us. We could learn a lot from this.

Edit: And whilst we're on the subject of sexy alien females, has it not occurred to anybody that trying to shag one of them would be tantamount to bestiality?
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:02, Reply)

I clearly do not understand the importance of this.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:03, Reply)

I relish this.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:05, Reply)

it is well documented that you are intellectually sub-par

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:05, Reply)

It is even more well documented that you are pre-op.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:06, Reply)

better than being post-op like you

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:06, Reply)

I could be mistaken
But I believe most of the black holes we know about are hundreds or thousands of light-years away, and therefore hundreds or thousands of years old by the time we see them. A black hole this young might still have enough crap drifting round it to tell us more about the way it formed and/or their behaviour in the earlier stages of their existence.


/boring reply is informative but boring. And somewhat dodgy of science.
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:05, Reply)

What about that one in 'The Black Hole'?
You know, that documentary?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:06, Reply)

Erm...don't think I saw that.

(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:08, Reply)

It was a shit 70s Disney film.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:10, Reply)

Ah, that would be why.
(I tend to give up on Disney in their post-Jungle Book era)
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:14, Reply)

I saw it in the cinema
when I was a child. It came out around the same time as Star Wars - the difference between them could not be more marked. It sucks massive balls.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:16, Reply)

It was on the same bill as Condor-Man.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:18, Reply)

Fuck me that was equally appalling.
I forget we're of a similar age. Hence you get all the Jimmy Hill/Deacon references.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:19, Reply)

was Condorman that terrible film with Gene Wilder?

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:20, Reply)

I think it was with Frank Spencer
What's his name... Crawford?

I'll have a Google and see if Wilder was in it too.

EDIT: It was Michael Crawford and Oliver Reed!

And it was shit.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:22, Reply)

you are right
not sure why I thought it was Gene Wilder. No wonder that film is so shit if Michael Crawford is in it
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:24, Reply)

Did you have a day in school Monts, which was the days after
'John's Not Mad' was first shown on the telly when EVERY KID claimed to have tourettes?

Fuckin' Nescafe.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:23, Reply)

Yes.
That documentary was a BIG EVENT.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:27, Reply)

not necessarily
could be that they've only just detected it and it was 19 years old when the light was emitted however many years ago it was
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:04, Reply)

This thread is giving me Paul Hardcastle lolz.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:07, Reply)

at least it is good for something

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:08, Reply)

Oh yes.
Sorry, having a bit of a slow one this afternoon. Either way, we could learn a lot from it.
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:08, Reply)