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beyond wrote:

Chris Peterson wrote:

beyond wrote:You mean to tell me that there is an actual Really Big GIANT bar magnet in pulsars?

Yes, and most amazing, it is naturally red at one end and white at the other, and has a giant "N" and "S" engraved on it.
Researchers are still working on extensions to General Relativity to explain these phenomena.

Chris - you wouldn't happen to have some sort of visual or infared picture of that "bar" would you?
I'm feeling a tug on my pants legs.

owlice wrote:

neufer wrote:it's black Holes all the way down.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down wrote:In the book Small Gods, the question "what does the turtle stand on?" is asked, and gets the reply "It's a turtle, for heaven's sake. It swims. That's what turtles are for."

neufer wrote: Are they well ironed pants?

Chris Peterson wrote:

beyond wrote:You mean to tell me that there is an actual Really Big GIANT bar magnet in pulsars?

Yes, and most amazing, it is naturally red at one end and white at the other, and has a giant "N" and "S" engraved on it. Researchers are still working on extensions to General Relativity to explain these phenomena.

NoelC wrote:

Chris Peterson wrote:

beyond wrote:You mean to tell me that there is an actual Really Big GIANT bar magnet in pulsars?

Yes, and most amazing, it is naturally red at one end and white at the other, and has a giant "N" and "S" engraved on it. Researchers are still working on extensions to General Relativity to explain these phenomena.

I saw one of those in my telescope once. I was trying to observe the arrow that points to Pluto.

-Noel

neufer wrote: a black hole can only have three attibutes

beyond wrote:Wouldn't the ability to suck up anything that came near it be an attribute?

Ann wrote:

Baby dressed in black hole.

Ann

bystander wrote:

beyond wrote:Wouldn't the ability to suck up anything that came near it be an attribute?

That's covered by mass, mass implies gravity.

beyond wrote:Is pluto magnetic?

http://www.disneyshorts.org/years/1936/donaldandpluto.html wrote:
"Donald and Pluto" September 12, 1936

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

<<From Ryan Kilpatrick at The Disney Film Project : Pluto takes up the majority of the short with a simple premise: he swallows a magnet and ends up having all sorts of things being attracted to his rear end where the magnet is lodged. Pots, pans, knives, Donald’s hammer – they are all chasing Pluto throughout the short. [What] amazes me about Pluto, is that the animators always seem to keep in mind that he is a dog. The human reaction to the magnet antics would be much different than a dog. As a dog, Pluto spends half of his time trying to figure out what is going on, then trying to move on when he’s satisfied that it’s “over.” This is exactly what a dog would do, so it makes perfect sense.>>

neufer wrote: Http://www.cafepress.com/+pluto+magnets

beyond wrote:
Hey - what a good demonstration of the speed of c. In this case
c representing the maximum speed of a cartoon dog in
a cellulose medium when knives were being attracted to him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celluloid wrote:
<<English photographer John Carbutt founded the Keystone Dry Plate Works in 1879 with the intention of producing gelatin dry plates. The Celluloid Manufacturing Company was contracted for this work by means of thinly slicing layers out of celluloid blocks and then removing the slice marks with heated pressure plates. After this, the celluloid strips were coated with a photosensitive gelatin emulsion. It is not certain exactly how long it took for Carbutt to standardize his process, but it occurred no later than 1888. A 15-inch-wide (380 mm) sheet of Carbutt's film was used by William Dickson for the early Edison motion picture experiments on a cylinder drum Kinetograph. However, the celluloid film base produced by this means was still considered too stiff for the needs of motion picture photography. By 1889, more flexible celluloids for photographic film were developed, and both Hannibal Goodwin and the Eastman Kodak Company obtained patents for a film product (Ansco, which purchased Goodwin's patent when he died, was eventually successful in an infringement suit against Kodak). This ability to produce photographic images on a flexible material (as opposed to a glass or metal plate) was a crucial step toward the advent of motion pictures.>>

kfsone wrote:Question: Why do artists always seem to depict a black hole as being below the plane of the incoming material? Is it a misunderstanding of the gravity well?

kfsone wrote:Question: Why do artists always seem to depict a black hole as being below the plane of the incoming material? Is it a misunderstanding of the gravity well?

beyond wrote:AH, so the 'suck' factor is just the result of a really strong gravity caused by all the mass that has been sucked up?

Henning Makholm wrote:

beyond wrote:AH, so the 'suck' factor is just the result of a really strong gravity caused by all the mass that has been sucked up?

Black holes do not suck! Or at least, do not "suck" any more (or any differently) than the same amount of mass in any other form would do.

beyond wrote:

Henning Makholm wrote:

beyond wrote:AH, so the 'suck' factor is just the result of a really strong gravity caused by all the mass that has been sucked up?

Black holes do not suck!
Or at least, do not "suck" any more (or any differently) than the same amount of mass in any other form would do.

I think that if you happened to get caught in the gravity well of a black hole, you would most likely say it sucks as it begins to deform you on the way to being totally gravitized or whatever it is called when something enters into the black hole. I can't speak from personal experience, so it is much of a guess. But i figure that the word "sucks" would probably fit the situation pretty good.

ann wrote: Wall E's vacuum cleaner didn't suck, it spat out.

Ann wrote:

beyond wrote:

VANGELDROP wrote:Could it be a black hole inside a black hole?

Could that possibly be a baby black hole?? if it is, I'd bet that it would be a cute little sucker

Baby dressed in black hole.

Ann