Comments on: Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/03/29/death-by-black-hole-and-other/ Thu, 07 Apr 2011 18:59:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: seslisohbet https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/03/29/death-by-black-hole-and-other/#comment-501384 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 18:59:46 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/03/29/death-by-black-hole-and-other/#comment-501384 I think that is referring to a comment on a post with a video that had all ready been around the internet

]]> By: gruebait https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/03/29/death-by-black-hole-and-other/#comment-501383 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:25:45 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/03/29/death-by-black-hole-and-other/#comment-501383 spaghettification.
One of my favorite words.

]]> By: Mike Haubrich https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/03/29/death-by-black-hole-and-other/#comment-501382 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 05:04:30 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/03/29/death-by-black-hole-and-other/#comment-501382

“… so I’m not supposed to mention it in a blog post, because blog posts are only about things that happened during the last forty-five minutes or so…”

No need to explain – we need some light news right now.

I think that is referring to a comment on a post with a video that had all ready been around the internet (and a week before on PZ!)

pffftthh, I say. If something is interesting, it is interesting even if more than 46 minutes old.

I read Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution by NdGT and Donald Goldsmith (Greg, feel free to edit this comment to include the Amazon link for your affiliate code) a few years ago and found it to be exactly as Greg describes Tyson’s writing.

In it he explains how we know what we know not only about the Big Bang, but inflation and dark matter and dark energy and expansion and the things that make the universe what it is today. I read it, and I understood it, and I liked it.

]]> By: dean https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/03/29/death-by-black-hole-and-other/#comment-501381 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 02:45:59 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/03/29/death-by-black-hole-and-other/#comment-501381 “… so I’m not supposed to mention it in a blog post, because blog posts are only about things that happened during the last forty-five minutes or so…”

No need to explain – we need some light news right now.

“…Fortunately, I was able to relate the esoteric dating technique to baseball and glow-in-the-dark plastic Virgin Marys, so it wasn’t as bad as it could have been.”

There are many things I’ve never expected to see mentioned in reference to a science discussion: not until now had I even considered putting glow-in-the-dark plastic Virgin Marys on the list. It must have been one hell of a show.

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