From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon May 21 2001 - 19:34:46 MDT
At 11:41 PM 5/21/01 +0200, you wrote:
>
>I'm getting my weekly fix of Science
>
>Another whopper is detection of matter signatures just it waves a final kiss
>to this universe, and to disappear below event horizont final curtain.
>Cool 140 Hz, while whipping around a 60 km object, then waving buh-bye, and
>poof! Never to be seen again. The best thing is that we don't have anysuch
>object at our doorstep. Whew. Even not mentioning looking down the polar
>jets, the accretion disk alone is mightily bright.
Why does this particular item get yr knickers in a (n-dimensional) twist?
Because it *proves* the reality of black holes and Other Places? Is
potential cause for alarm like GRBs? Is source of energy? Is basis for
propulsion technique? Just looks so goddam cool? Other?
Damien
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