[1123] Spaghettification
└ posted on Wednesday, 16 October 2019, by Novil
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- Ye Thuza: Hey, Yuna, wouldn’t that be something for you?
- Poster: Science Fair | Show us your project! | Prizes | Grades 2 – 6 | Topic: Light & Electricity
- Yuna: Yes, sounds like fun.
- Ye Thuza: I guess if you didn’t want to start a new project, you could also submit your amazing hologram.
- Yuna: No, I can’t.
- Ye Thuza: Why not?
- Yuna: I accidentally put it into the box with my mini black hole, and now it’s all spaghettified!
- Ye Thuza: Let’s get rid of that thing once and for all!
- Yuna: No! Don’t take away Wally! He’s my friend!
![[1123] Spaghettification](/comics/2019-10-16-1123-spaghettification.png "[1123] Spaghettification")
Should the sign read “Prizes”?
So, how would one dispose of a black hole, other than with another black hole?
That is not how spaghettification works!!!
Michael Ogaz wrote:
Fixed.
@ Brian Hetrick:
Spin it around fast enough until it dies.
@ oledakaajel:
Death by spinning which causes an increase in radiation as it is that radiation that takes away all it’s mass which we consider ”death” for a black hole? I don’t know if I want to be near it.
Or is it something else in the spin that takes it out?
Subvert the competition – take along the mini black hole (from which, of course, no light can escape…)
@ cathulion:
Depending on how small it is, it’ll probably destroy itself pretty quickly regardless of what we do.
@ oledakaajel:
I am not sure you can spin a black hole apart. They tend to already be rotating pretty close to light speed at the horizon. You could maybe boost their electric charge till the event horizon is gone, but a naked singularity if it can exist might be more problematic anyways.
Where do I sign the petition to get Wally his own character tag?
Compressed Neutronium is not your friend. It is something to fear.
I’m more surprised Wally hasn’t sucked the box from the inside in the first place. Well-behaved mini black holes are so very hard to find among the infinite universes out there!
Ok:
1. If the Black Hole is a small one easy enough to pick up, how has it not evaporated from Hawking Radiation and exploded with a yield roughly equivalent to that of a Thermonuclear device?
2. if the Black Hole is a size able to be fit into the suitcase, how is Ye Thurza able to pick it up (it should weigh more than the earth), and how is the room around them not spaghettified yet?
In panel 2, the idiom is “No can do.”
How fast would it dissapear? I mean “fast” on a cosmic scale could still be years
Wouldn’t it be pretty unsafe to have a mini black hole in a box in your room?
So is Wally the name Yuna gave to the mini black hole, or is it the name she gave to the now-spaghettified hologram?
Kind of with Ye Thuza on this one. Mini black holes decay rapidly through Hawking radiation and sturdy though that box is, I don’t think its capable of containing an explosion equivalent to a large nuclear weapon.
EvilMidnightLurker wrote:
Or, “No, can’t do it.”
And here I thought only certain budgets had a black hole in it.
Seems most of you don’t comprehend the “is life a hologram projected through blackholes as a lens” theory
@ wyzwon:
With a lot of light. If it’s in there and she can lift it, it should have evaporated long ago and released enough energy to level at least part of the city.
Yuna next future boyfriend Jimmy Neutron or Dexter Boy Genius 😀
Over on OrionsArm, they talk of using black holes as power sources.
That sounds like a good science fair project.
Then Novil can visit the classic conspiracy theory of “the disappearance of the inventor of the 100mpg carburetor along with his prototype”. Or was that “the disappearance of the inventor of the engine that ran on tap water along with his prototype”? I think I’ve heard it both ways.
However, disappearing Yuna would be suicidal. If Yuna didn’t get you, there’d be her brother, and her mother to make sure you regretted your decision…for however long you had left.
Don’t take her “friend” away, she is just a couple of steeps from going full supervillain
Oh, the hologram makes a comeback! …sorta.
Foradain wrote:
Although, to be fair, I can certainly see how someone whose native language isn’t English and who’s only ever heard the phrase could make that mistake. (And yes, I did use who’s and whose just to show how weird my language is.)
@ Brian Hetrick:
You need to fill it. Really fast
All spaghettified? A reference to Red Dwarf?
@ demarion: Spaghettification is what happens to things which fall into black holes. Which is what was happening in an episode of Red Dwarf, but the word is widely used outside of that series, in particular in serious scientific papers. See for example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghettification
Uh…Ye Thuza, how exactly are you planning on disposing of a BLACK HOLE? You can’t just…throw that in the trash…
@ Greg H:
1. Answer: Yuna did it.
2. Answer: Yuna did it.
Somehow I feel Novil has only made this particular comic because he really wants someone to submit a 3d hologramm for the art constest. 😉
@ Greg H:
That one is easy: these are electronic drawings turned into a comic strip series where there’s a talking raccoon, the devil, a god for every critter and the sun goes “boom” as it was a small ball of fire glued to the firmament.
Oh, yeah, and Blizzard makes announcements while Winnie the Pooh eats spleens in the recording room.
Greg H wrote:
Hawking Radiation is only happening to black holes in VACUUM. In atmosphere, your concern is not Hawking radiation, but the fact it’s sucking air quite fast.
Greg H wrote:
The black hole might be considerably smaller than the suitcase itself. Quite likely, the suitcase is device holding it up … because without such device, the black hole would fall THROUGH any surface to the center of Earth.
Is it true that black holes are portals to other dimensiond and/or universes?