Awwww bless...
Playing Trivial P with my parents, my then GF was asked the question "How is a black hole formed?"
She replied with "Is it when a fairy dies?"

Stunned silence from the aged parents, followed by much hilarity at her expense.

I still married the daft bint though.
(marcooosa has no idea what a board sig is, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 16:25, 12 replies)

I can't be bothered to go into whether this is ignorance or not
but I will say this. The day you actually find "How is a black hole formed?" as question in TP will be the day my own cock becomes sentient. For the love of god, if you are going to lie, at least make it vaguely convincing.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 16:36, closed)

*gentile applause*

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 16:52, closed)

Although, I do actually quite like the idea
Of using Trivial Pursuits to solve other fundamental questions, in quantum physics and elsewhere. You know, just on the off chance someone, somewhere knows the answers.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 17:00, closed)

No really!
The answer was something like, "When a star collapses in on itself". I don't remember exactly, it was a vert long time ago.
(marcooosa has no idea what a board sig is, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 17:21, closed)

Right then, let's see this sentient cock thing then.

(Purely for scientific reasons, I'm not a gayer or anything)
(jono_h, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 18:52, closed)

*shows* .. impressed? nah, it's cold today.
seriously, there is no way that was a TP question, now or in the past. They don't make a habit of putting questions in there that there isn't a verified known answer to, for a start.

Unless a very long time ago they'd put any old shit in, but I've got the original edition I think somewhere, and I don't remember that.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 16:13, closed)

Science can't yet explain everything about black holes, but we do know how they're created. When a star dies it collapses and creates a supernova, then you get either a black hole or a neutron star, depending on the star's original mass.
(Grackle, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 18:24, closed)

And neutron stars may then go on to collapse into black holes. Yay! The universe needs more black holes.
(Vega31, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 20:27, closed)

Not quite right (yes you are - see edit)
Edit: sorry, you were right, I replied to the wrong post.

A star, when it runs out of fuel and comes to the end of its life, will do one of several things depending on its mass.

If it's ordinary size, like the Sun, it will first grow extremely large, becoming a red giant, eventually collapsing into a hot blob called a white dwarf. Stars much smaller don't really get past the red giant stage.
If it's much bigger, it'll explode in a colossal detonation called a supernova. In turn, what happens after the supernova depends on the star's mass. Most of the time a super-dense ball of matter called a neutron star is the result. These are small, of the same sort of size as the earth, but incredibly massive (billions of tonnes in a teaspoon of neutron star matter.) However, if the star was particularly big and there's sufficient mass remaining after the explosion then the remains collapse in on themselves and form a black hole.
( Scrumper, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 21:49, closed)

Or micro black holes of substellar mass (therefore unable to form by gravitational collapse) which are pretty much universally accepted to have formed with the universe at some quantum level
Or high energy collisions, depending on your interpretation of branespace and how small the Planck mass is? Or, fuck it, any number of options around the whole "goldilocks region" of vacuum energy.

Or you could just go for the primordial hole theory, which allows for not just different rules but almost a whole different game, as it's based on assumptions about the density of the universe around the big bang and all gravitational collapse bets are off.

They're all possible, some probable, but none proven, as far as I was aware? not really my field of science, admittedly.

Still don't see it as a TP question.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 16:24, closed)

Lie or not
this is still the sweetest, funniest post I've read so far.

loving it :)
( inthepoo <-- I have no idea what this icon is ?, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 11:03, closed)

Why thanks!
That's a lovely thing to say - thank you!

It wasn't a lie though. If I could be bothered I would drive the 100 miles to my parents house, trawl through all the cards in their original version of TP, find the card with the question, scan it in and show everyone. But frankly I can't be arsed.

But thanks for your comments anyway.
(marcooosa has no idea what a board sig is, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 11:16, closed)