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am_Unition  ·  1767 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why the world is waiting for Betelgeuse to go supernova

Imagine pointing your starship at your friend's star system, pressing "go", and then accidentally enveloping them inside a black hole when you decelerated upon arrival. Bummer.

I'd never heard of kugelblitz! That was great. I've thought about the absurd amount of exclusively bosonic energy density that would be required to make a space-time singularity, but I didn't know there was a name for it :).





Devac  ·  1767 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Imagine pointing your starship at your friend's star system, pressing "go", and then accidentally enveloping them inside a black hole when you decelerated upon arrival. Bummer.

I thought you wrote grant proposals. Remove 'accidentally', change 'friend' to 'enemy' and get yourself some of that DoD/DoE money.

am_Unition  ·  1767 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hhahahaha, this was fantastic! My branch of funding now only selects less than ~10% of proposals, and it's getting worse, so I really appreciate you throwin' me a bone here, bruh. :)