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A mass of 6x to 7x our sun (size of this object) would start messing with solar system orbits well before it got here. Not that that would be much better for us

A mass of 6x to 7x our sun (size of this object) would start messing with solar system orbits well before it got here. Not that that would be much better for us!

Loughla 2y ago
Yeah it wouldn't just sneak up on us. We would have years and years to worry and hypothesize before finally just dying.
- gffrd 2y ago
  > finally just dying Is this what would happen if we got slurped into a black hole? I was hoping for something more exciting …
  - generic92034 2y ago
    It seems hard to see a way that life forms survive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghettification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghettification.
  - WD-42 2y ago
    I thought you ended up behind a bookshelf.
    - snowwrestler 2y ago
      Well, we hit a little snag when the universe sort of collapsed on itself. But dad seemed cautiously optimistic.
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  - hwillis 2y ago
    We would most likely freeze to death. As the black hole crossed the asteroid belt we would be pulled away from the sun as it started to compete with the black hole's gravity. Depending how fast the black hole was moving we might die over a few months or we might freeze to death in a few days. Probably there are paths where the earth would briefly be pulled into an elliptical orbit, and then we would be burnt to a crisp as we circled back close to the sun.
    - datavirtue 2y ago
      In a chaos such as that we would get killed by the weather before we even realized what was happening.
    - jerf 2y ago
      This is the setting of one of my favorite short stories, A Pail Full of Air. Which I am delighted to note, since the last time I referenced it, appears to have fallen out of copyright, so I can link straight to it on Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/51461/pg51461.txt https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/51461/pg51461.txt
- snowwrestler 2y ago
  Barely enough time to recruit a bunch of lovably gruff leatherneck astronauts to drill a hole in it and blow it up with a nuclear bomb.
  - ndsipa_pomu 2y ago
    Wouldn't it be quicker to train some drilling experts how to be astronauts though?

A mass of 6x to 7x our sun (size of this object) would start messing with solar system orbits well before it got here. Not that that would be much better for us!

Loughla 2y ago

Yeah it wouldn't just sneak up on us. We would have years and years to worry and hypothesize before finally just dying.

gffrd 2y ago
> finally just dying Is this what would happen if we got slurped into a black hole? I was hoping for something more exciting …
- generic92034 2y ago
  It seems hard to see a way that life forms survive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghettification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghettification.
- WD-42 2y ago
  I thought you ended up behind a bookshelf.
  - snowwrestler 2y ago
    Well, we hit a little snag when the universe sort of collapsed on itself. But dad seemed cautiously optimistic.
  - deleted 2y ago
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- hwillis 2y ago
  We would most likely freeze to death. As the black hole crossed the asteroid belt we would be pulled away from the sun as it started to compete with the black hole's gravity. Depending how fast the black hole was moving we might die over a few months or we might freeze to death in a few days. Probably there are paths where the earth would briefly be pulled into an elliptical orbit, and then we would be burnt to a crisp as we circled back close to the sun.
  - datavirtue 2y ago
    In a chaos such as that we would get killed by the weather before we even realized what was happening.
  - jerf 2y ago
    This is the setting of one of my favorite short stories, A Pail Full of Air. Which I am delighted to note, since the last time I referenced it, appears to have fallen out of copyright, so I can link straight to it on Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/51461/pg51461.txt https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/51461/pg51461.txt
snowwrestler 2y ago
Barely enough time to recruit a bunch of lovably gruff leatherneck astronauts to drill a hole in it and blow it up with a nuclear bomb.
- ndsipa_pomu 2y ago
  Wouldn't it be quicker to train some drilling experts how to be astronauts though?