tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003911814981191170.post4155767493458888166..comments2023-10-11T07:15:29.875-07:00Comments on Not Even Modern: The End of the World. Wednesday, That Is.Merlijn de Smithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01440991553436051982noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003911814981191170.post-2540048296976477482008-09-09T08:48:00.000-07:002008-09-09T08:48:00.000-07:00That sounds a bit better. Four years is long enoug...That sounds a bit better. Four years is long enough to push things back past the existential panic horizon for me.<BR/><BR/>This said, scooping out a miniature black hole and shuttling it out sounds dicey. It'd have to be shuttled out pretty far as well. I guess you can't just leave the black hole in orbit.<BR/><BR/>So my hopes would still be on the massive Vulcan transporter ships appearing in the sky at just the right time. Sometimes, my hopes are there anyway. I don't care if I don't have any remotely useful skills. I can be a spaceship janitor fourth class. I can pile rocks on some forsaken desert outpost planet. Just get me out of here.Merlijn de Smithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01440991553436051982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003911814981191170.post-51245831950878442142008-09-08T23:15:00.000-07:002008-09-08T23:15:00.000-07:00I read a piece somewhere that if the black hole we...I read a piece somewhere that if the black hole were to become stable, it would take 4 years to consume the earth. But that seems like a long time but the black hole would be very small. The black holes that form in space are from a collasped star and I would think have one solar mass when they come online so to speak. Maybe 4 years would be enough time for them to put in on the space shuttle and blast it into space.Michael https://www.blogger.com/profile/16278941512970742001noreply@blogger.com