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- Humptydank, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26For those of you that don't have time to read the story, the point is this:
A laboratory in Germany is researching why simple words in German immediately begin forming an accretion disk of other words around them. When they began this research they were simply called Zentrum Labs. Just in the past two years, however, they have become Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf Labs.
If this pace continues, by 2010 they will be known as Banhoff-Reichenlaur Defietslagen Forschungszentrum Zerhoffenstreit Dresden-Rossendorf-Keichelfest Labs, causing a projected fourfold increase in the size of their business cards and a complete collapse of their signmaking department. - vashmyvindows, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18"Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (Germany)."
Like I needed you to tell me that's German... - malkir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8With virgin sacrifices obviously.
- CaptainEO, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Verrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyy carefully.
- polyGone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4We all know its not good to feed the black holes...cmon jeeeez they bite.....
- ProximaC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4FDRI is already in use to describe a rare mental disorder in which people believe they are a former President, aka the Franklin D. Roosevelt Insanity disorder.
- mynameistim, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5stop magnetorotational instabilizing yourself
- threepio, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"Don't Come IN! I'm cleaning my ROOM!!!"
- FearlessFreep, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"aka the Franklin D. Roosevelt Insanity disorder"
So *that* explains the old guy in "Arsnic And Old Lace" - vertinox, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Because maybe they speak German in Austria too?
Oh SCNHAPP! - FearlessFreep, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"magnetorotational instability (MRI)"
Sorry, MRI is already taken as an acronym...you need to come up with something new.
Maybe the Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf Instability (FDRI) - ChillHomie, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7This is an interesting article, just don't ask Michael Richards how he feeds black holes.
- SweetChuck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That would be Teddy Roosevelt FearlessFreep, hense ther charector's name Teddy.
- Humptydank, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You're stoned, aren't you.
- Kamino, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@smoothly: only when the rabbit wants you to.
- crilen007, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3To try and make this comment something not completly useless:
http://www.physorg.com/news84477821.html - magicjava, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well, it's not just anything spinning that produces a magnetic field. Electricity (and nothing else) spinning produces a magnetic field. So now, according to this paper, Black Holes have to have sources of electricity and it's reasonable to ask where that comes from.
- xeeton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1A black "hole" has gravity for the same reason earth has gravity. However, the BH (that was once a star) collapsed in on itself creating an infantesimly small body (called a singularity). The singularity still has just as much gravity as before, but is incredibly dense. The gravity attracts other things to it's center including photons, which is why it's black; light cannot escape from it.
Edit: I just realize you said magnetic. Sorry. - Durrok, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Should be plenty of those hanging around ;)
Oh.. women virgins?... We may to leave digg for that one. - Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This doesn't exactly seem like rocket science here. What they're saying is that magnetic forces can disrupt a vortex. Duh. Next up: theory of "gravity" used to explain why vortices form.
- phlux, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1but how do we know that the "real" FDR wasnt suffering from this and thinking he was someone else - we just thought that was his real personality...
- Ramtech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1From what I've heard.. doesn't the universe work the same way as our brains?.. So if we learn more about our brains.. maybe we can put together some similarities between our brains and how it works; then compare it to the universe.
- phlux, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I wonder if this is what is needed to finally make the unit that will bring John Titor to 2001...
- Yeyui, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Black holes are spinning. This creates the electromagnetic field. I don't know the details, but I think it is the same process that gives stars and planets their EM fields.
- jomommaznutz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I was thinking along the lines of watermelon and grape soda.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1But how does the black hole generate the magnetic field to cause the MRI?
- snurfle, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Noodly goodness!
- deralte, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0are you smoking weed up there?
NO MOM...
are you magnetoro...
NOOO, MOOOM - 98formula, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Maybe someone in this interview can help sort this out?
http://www.digg.com/space/Curb_Your_Intelligence_December_2006 - TrinaryWyrm, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0T'sa Shame that "Black Holes" were fully disproved, n00bz.
Low tech, low tech, dear old golden low tech...hammers and chisels and anvils, screwdrivers, hacksaws, and Blaaaack Hooooles, LOOOOW Tech, Loooow Tech
Humans will eventually turn their attention towards their roots of astronomy and suddenly realize it was all electrical-based to begin with, not some heebeejeebee swahili mystery stew.
My offerings: Plasma Science and relative Astronomy therein - ahcomeon, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1If they don't have time to read the short article, they won't have time to read your synopsis.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2"A special magnetic effect, the so-called magnetorotational instability (MRI), plays a key role in the formation of stars and planetary systems. It is also what feeds the black holes in the center of galaxies. For the first time, this effect has been observed in a laboratory experiment at the Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (Germany)."
Allegedly... Test data you say? People ***** that up all the time... I for one, believe in spaghetti monsters. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0I'd start with Rosie O'Donnell, and then move on to every member of the ACLU, and then start on the Democrats...
- trenchMonkey, on 10/12/2007, -12/+1What? No reference to fried chicken in the story??
- smoothly, on 10/12/2007, -18/+3pink ones too?
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