Reply to: Nov 26th... we all die

[Captain Dispensable]

How does being sucked up by a black hole affect my IR35 status?

Benefit in kind? Ask Hugh Grant he has experience of this.

BTW When did they introduce double decimilisation? What kind of effing number is "50.000.00"? Can you translate that into Ladbroke odds then I know whether it's worth putting a bet on.

[Troll]

Surely you shoud be spending your remaining time wisely- showing this article to any good looking females you meet and announce the end of the world in 5 months, suggest that as your time on Earth is so limited you should both spend what little remains making lurve.

It'll be a whole new Summer of Love - '67 revisited

[SoupDragon]

Heh - reminds me of that Red Dwarf where the taxman comes after lister

[threaded]

How does being sucked up by a black hole affect my IR35 status?

The IR will claim against your estate.

[Burdock]

How does being sucked up by a black hole affect my IR35 status?

[SoupDragon]

Um, no - black holes evaporate by losing mass by Hawking radiation - as I understand it this is so rapid that a quantum black hole has zero chance of become a big sucker.

[threaded]

It could suck us up, and then evaporate.

[SoupDragon]

If it evaporates, it can't suck us up.

If it sucks stuff up it can't evaporate.

So I would assume it doesn't suck stuff up.

[wendigo100]

A black hole ate my planet (a New Scientist article from 1999

Arthur C. Clarke once raised the possibility that some of those vast explosions we see in the cosmos may be smart-alec alien scientists getting their comeuppance for tinkering with the quantum vacuum: 'they might be industrial accidents' he said.

Di that happen to anyone you know, zeity?

[wendigo100]

Haha Horizon are such drama queens sometimes.

A quantum black hole only exists for a tiny fraction of a second.

Is that not long enough? Black holes don't need time to rev up and go through the gears you know!

[SoupDragon]

Haha Horizon are such drama queens sometimes.

A quantum black hole only exists for a tiny fraction of a second.

[OwlHoot]

Black hole on Earth

T'is the end of days & all very Biblical
1 in 50.000.00 chance of a catastrophe- creation of new type of matter -stranglets which would destroy the planet or the fabric of space ripped apart (but they did say the atom bomb would burn the atmosphere)

They reckon some cosmic rays can be many orders more energetic than the largest energies that will be obtained in the LHC, and we're still here. See A black hole ate my planet (a New Scientist article from 1999)

[hyperD]

It's times like this when we should reconsider getting Prescott back in service and flown over to Cern pronto to dampen the Higgs field.


(I fell asleep (wine induced) halfway though the BBC docu - anyone know whether it's on again?)

[VectraMan]

I think that's when the extension I'm about to sign will end. Looks like I'm not going to get any time off then.

[AtW]

That worries me - I think this and similar projects should be shutdown until time when they can be done in separate galaxies many hundreds light years away from major population centers.