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- shutaro, on 09/10/2008, -1/+51Only if you have sufficient tachyon build up in your main deflector array. You'd also need to re-route power from the warp drive core to compensate.
- wwwonka, on 09/10/2008, -0/+43This scenario falls firmly in place #16678 of things I least worry about, right behind #16677-being torn limb to limb by a gummy bear.
- inactive, on 09/10/2008, -0/+33I dont know who put the picture of goatse up, but thats really immature.
- inactive, on 09/10/2008, -2/+34Try slingshotting yourself around the middle of it ala star trek and the sun. Although you may end up back in time.
- drakenlot, on 09/10/2008, -0/+24I thought you only needed Flux Capacitor and be travelling at 88 mph.
- omgbanana, on 09/10/2008, -0/+22I'm not so sure that I would want to extend my time when I'm experiencing something called "spaghettification". That's like the fuselage of a plane cracking open, being sucked from your seat, and spreading yourself out to increase wind resistance so you can experience that terrible, terrible free fall for 7 and a half minutes rather than 7.
- Zamu3L, on 09/10/2008, -2/+23It will if you have a flux capacitor!
- IronPwnage, on 09/10/2008, -1/+20No it won't. It might do after October 21st though.
- drakenlot, on 09/10/2008, -0/+18It's so simple!
- shutaro, on 09/10/2008, -0/+15I have nightmares about that... The gummy bear thing.
- Stropp, on 09/10/2008, -1/+16Nah. Slingshotting around a black hole won't send you back in time. You'll need a Tipler Cylinder for that. But you'll still only be able to travel back to when the T.C. was created.
- mescad, on 09/10/2008, -0/+14Gummi Bears always freaked me out too. Remember that song from the cartoon? "Bouncing here and there and everywhere" Yeah, everywhere man. Everywhere. There's no way to escape them.
- GumdoMike, on 09/10/2008, -0/+13Bears
- PennFarmer, on 09/10/2008, -0/+12Don't forget though that even for someone as skilled as Solo, it ripped off the bottom plates of the Millenium Falcon. The reason he made the run that fast was to avoid customs while carrying an illegal load of spice. A load that he jettisoned and the reason that Jabba was after him. Moral of the story - even if you avoid the black hole, the Hutts might get to you.
- darkstar949, on 09/10/2008, -0/+12Is there anything the main deflector array can't do?
- mojoel, on 09/10/2008, -0/+12Bah!! Han Solo had to get very close to black hole cluster in order to make the Kessel Run in twelve parsecs (and then again later in less than 11.5 parsecs). You just have to have a ship as fast as The Millenium Falcon. No worries.
- bpoteat, on 09/10/2008, -3/+12Sorry, you don't go to heaven, pal. Until you accept the flying spaghetti monster as the one and only truth, the noodley one laughs at your wrong choice of Gods and it's stale beer and plenty of venereal diseases for you.
- laddr, on 09/10/2008, -0/+9This type of article is why I love digg haha
- pe5t1lence, on 09/10/2008, -0/+9But rerouting and consuming that amount of power will fry the dilithium matrix! We are only going to have one shot at this.
- Zaggynl, on 09/10/2008, -1/+9if if if if if if if
Call me when we have proper spaceships to begin with. - PabloMac, on 09/10/2008, -2/+9That's not funny. Two of my friends died from spaghettification.
- gritta, on 09/10/2008, -1/+8I couldn't get it to load so:
http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:9byM2gd1Xf4J: ...
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(text-only) - Proel, on 09/10/2008, -0/+7Retards. All of you who can't understand sarcasm are retarded. Go kill yourselves.
- TBBucs, on 09/10/2008, -0/+7Death by black hole seems like a bad ass way to go.
- inactive, on 09/10/2008, -0/+7You mean... Star Trek lied to me!?
- bundwallah, on 09/10/2008, -0/+6OMG I wrote a paper on this when I was in high school. (80's). I'm sure thinking has changed since then, but here's what my studies found. I read a few books on Black Holes and also Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time.
The generally accepted thinking is that if you enter a black hole, you're basically *****. However, there was slight chance of escape.
Black holes generally have a conical shape and they rotate. If your spacecraft is able to match the speed of rotation you should fly in a trajectory that rides the outer edges of the cone and spiral your way down. There's a theory that as you near the bottom of the cone there is an opening in which you can escape from. Think of a bucket full of water, if you were to swish it around, there's always a point where the water breaks to form an opening. So as your craft descends, if you are able to catch up with the rotating opening then a final burst on your engines should let you exit that hole. Of course where you end up is still very far from home, but you may escape being crushed into atoms.
So there it is. :) Take with grain of salt. - shutaro, on 09/10/2008, -0/+6Looks like the article fell into a black hole...
- Ph0biA, on 09/10/2008, -2/+8I don't like Black Holes. They scare the ***** out of me.
- cuppyCake, on 09/10/2008, -0/+5Grab the turnstone before Sarnath does.
- drakenlot, on 09/10/2008, -0/+5So what's number 1?
- BigManOnCampus, on 09/10/2008, -0/+5Or you could rely on this guy:
http://megomuseum.com/blackhole/prototypes/bob-a.j ...
To sacrifice himself so that you will live. - mojoel, on 09/10/2008, -0/+5If it's not the Imperials it's the Hutts!
- MacSuxWindozSux, on 09/10/2008, -0/+4That would only work if you were outside the event horizon trying not to fall in.
- nogwater, on 09/10/2008, -0/+4They totally gloss over tidal forces! Come on. The most important part is to fall in to a really huge black hole so that you can avoid "spaghettification". Everyone knows that.
- alimighty1, on 09/10/2008, -0/+4this is one of those things you hope you never have to use. Except if you do, it would be way awesome.
- MxM111, on 09/10/2008, -0/+4Actually scientists do hope to get miniature black holes. Only they will not survive long (I mean the holes, not the scientists)
- drakenlot, on 09/10/2008, -0/+4He said the least worried about, bears are easily the most worried about.
- welestgw, on 09/10/2008, -0/+4Those Gummi Bears and their damn bouncing juice.
- Efilnikufesin, on 09/10/2008, -0/+4Simply calculate the essentially impossible odds of your escape, the infinite improbability drive will do the rest.
- mythicflux, on 09/10/2008, -0/+4Yes, hit the massive singularity with your space ship. It was being kind of a dick anyway.
- drakenlot, on 09/10/2008, -1/+5I'll let the LHC do that for me.
- inactive, on 09/10/2008, -0/+4You're failing to take something basic into account here. The very definition of a black hole is that all paths through spacetime within the Event Horizon lead to the singularity. Thus, if you accelerate toward the Event Horizon, you accelerate toward the singularity. Your best bet is actually free fall, since that's the very slowest speed at which you can plummet into a black hole. However, you need a quick boost toward the singularity as soon as you enter, because spacetime is so warped near the Event Horizon.
- PennFarmer, on 09/10/2008, -1/+5"Here's a scenario that will face many of us in the far future"
I don't know what us the author is referring to, but I don't really plan on being around in the far future. - shutaro, on 09/10/2008, -0/+3@darkstar949: All sorts of things... That's what phasers are for.
- Fritzel, on 09/10/2008, -0/+3if you have light speed capabilities you would have a better chance of escaping. but point taken
- GoingPostal, on 09/10/2008, -2/+5Bitter?
- xsecretfiles, on 09/10/2008, -2/+5Black holes are the best. They usually have the best booties than any other race.
- jkleinrichert, on 09/10/2008, -0/+3Man, I sooo could have used this info last week!
- pe5t1lence, on 09/10/2008, -0/+3At least the Hutts offer dental, more than you can say about the Jedi. The Jedi want you "to use the force to remove your tooth." Screw that, I want Bacta!
- 1773nium, on 09/10/2008, -0/+3And those ***** were FAST too, well except the fat one but even on that juice he could get around faster than I can to escape them...*eyeballs halligan bar in corner*
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