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Today, 12:12 AMhalfeye replied to a thread How fast can a small black hole eat? in Mad Science and Grumpy TechnologyAs I understand it, which is vaguely, this is correct, but the limit is just that high that the evaporation can proceed at an exponentially...15 replies | 543 view(s)
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Yesterday, 04:38 PMhalfeye replied to a thread What work cemented the visual look of western dragons? in Media DiscussionsHm, I'd say there are two types of dragon, western and Chinese, both fly, the chinese without wings, the chinese have whiskers and horns, the...108 replies | 3438 view(s)
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Yesterday, 03:39 AMhalfeye replied to a thread How fast can a small black hole eat? in Mad Science and Grumpy TechnologyI personally am not that interested in planck mass black holes. A one kg black hole has a lifetime of approximately 1 x 10^-19 seconds and a event...15 replies | 543 view(s)
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2024-05-20, 04:21 AMhalfeye replied to a thread What Are You Playing: 9 Years since the Last Dragon Age in Gaming (Other)I blooming loathe musicals. When I was a kid every other film was a pesky musical, The Sound of Music was the worst but by no means the only. I...1473 replies | 116239 view(s)
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2024-05-20, 03:54 AMhalfeye replied to a thread Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory in Friendly BanterI'm seeing a lot of flats and some small houses with shower rooms instead of bathrooms. It's clearly a smaller, cheaper, room for a housing builder....485 replies | 9511 view(s)
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2024-05-20, 03:45 AMhalfeye replied to a thread Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads in Friendly BanterUrg. Gravy granules and powder are as to gravy as instant coffee is to coffee at the very best, often much worse. There's some flavour in it,...453 replies | 25009 view(s)
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2024-05-20, 03:27 AMhalfeye replied to a thread How fast can a small black hole eat? in Mad Science and Grumpy TechnologyWot 'e sed. You are technically correct that the hole is black,.Hawking radiation comes from particle pairs spontaineously appearing one inside,...15 replies | 543 view(s)
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2024-05-19, 03:24 PMhalfeye replied to a thread Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory in Friendly BanterThere used to be rooms, often called sculleries, where all the washing, plates, cutlery, clothes were done (I presume scullery because you needed...485 replies | 9511 view(s)
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2024-05-18, 07:17 PMhalfeye replied to a thread How fast can a small black hole eat? in Mad Science and Grumpy TechnologyThat's useful. I was interested as a digression from the Earth if the sun became a black hole thread, because a small black hole falling into the sun...15 replies | 543 view(s)
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2024-05-18, 07:01 PMhalfeye replied to a thread Girl Genius XXXIII: Plotting, ranting, and menacing the countryside in WebcomicsIt's not anything to do with the thread, it's that threads a particular user has posted in show up differently for that particular user (and not for...30 replies | 1342 view(s)
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2024-05-17, 10:16 AMA black hole of 2385 tons lasts one second, so there's presumably no saving that. However, with increasing mass, the input to save the hole...15 replies | 543 view(s)
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2024-05-17, 09:34 AMhalfeye replied to a thread Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory in Friendly BanterI feel that on film Munroe definitely exceeded Bo Derek.485 replies | 9511 view(s)
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2024-05-17, 09:01 AMhalfeye replied to a thread Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory in Friendly BanterNot even I!485 replies | 9511 view(s)
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2024-05-17, 03:47 AMhalfeye replied to a thread How long would the Earth last if the sun became a black hole? in Mad Science and Grumpy TechnologyThe best prepared place at this point in time would be Antarctica, and that isn't prepared. The human race would require at least one population...35 replies | 1837 view(s)
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2024-05-15, 03:39 PMMy impression was that the director buds off new morays whenever it feels like, and only hears back from them when it reabsorbs them, and that the...88 replies | 5375 view(s)
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2024-05-15, 03:28 PMI'm seeing the box overlapping the box on some pages, particularly in the case of the Gunnerkrig Court thread where x is currently 38, I think...0 replies | 398 view(s)
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2024-05-14, 08:48 PMhalfeye replied to a thread Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory in Friendly BanterI used to like Heinlien, but then I read Farnham's Freehold. Apparently he didn't even understand why it was terrible.485 replies | 9511 view(s)
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2024-05-14, 08:39 PMI read most of the early Deverry series from the library, I have one, but I'd like to be sure the series is going somewhere before I go much further...861 replies | 102351 view(s)
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2024-05-13, 07:18 PMhalfeye replied to a thread How long would the Earth last if the sun became a black hole? in Mad Science and Grumpy TechnologyI'm guessing, but I really do suspect you are mistaken, the thing that would make it quick is that once it starts, it will accelerate. When the...35 replies | 1837 view(s)
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2024-05-13, 01:45 PMIt doesn't? What does then?88 replies | 5375 view(s)
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2024-05-13, 11:32 AMI vaguely remember a quote, could just be pompous rubbish:1134 replies | 546721 view(s)
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2024-05-13, 08:54 AMhalfeye replied to a thread How long would the Earth last if the sun became a black hole? in Mad Science and Grumpy TechnologyThe sun is not going to go supernova, at all, so long as it doesn't ingest twice its current weight in hydrogen (or other mass, but hydrogen is the...35 replies | 1837 view(s)
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2024-05-13, 08:38 AMhalfeye replied to a thread Works where you were surprised to learn you were in the minority of viewers in Media DiscussionsThe Mona Lisa is bland and boring.131 replies | 7748 view(s)
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2024-05-13, 08:34 AMThis drug is apparently legal in some places. Alcohol wasn't legal in the USA early last century, and is arguably more dangerous.88 replies | 5375 view(s)
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2024-05-12, 04:18 AMhalfeye replied to a thread Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory in Friendly BanterNah, there are still ticks.485 replies | 9511 view(s)
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2024-05-10, 08:16 PMhalfeye replied to a thread Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory in Friendly BanterSome birds do it, some mammals do it. Probably the majority don't, but except for the laws there's nothing particularly human about it.485 replies | 9511 view(s)
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2024-05-10, 07:17 PMhalfeye replied to a thread Works where you were surprised to learn you were in the minority of viewers in Media DiscussionsThe Girl from Uncle. Thr series showed up here after the Man from Uncle ended, and I liked it. I guess a person's got to do what feels right to...131 replies | 7748 view(s)
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