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, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

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)