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    death by black hole...

    this is part of a talk given by neil degrasse tyson, an astrophysicist and one of the more powerful intellects on planet earth at the moment, where he answers a question from the audience about what would happen to a person who fell into a black hole.

    neil tyson is very well known for using humor as an aide to both teaching and understanding, so this response is quite funny in places.





    here is another one about apophis:




    one about deflecting an asteroid:

    Last edited by Mike70; 02-Feb-2009 at 06:02 AM.
    "The bumps you feel are asteroids smashing into the hull."

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    I Tivo'd a discovery channel program about 7 ways in which life on earth would end and he discusses this...great guy!

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    Neat, thanks for sharing.

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    That was really fascinating, thanks for posting this Mike.

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    Excellent post, Mike.

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    Very interesting clips, Mike! I like his sense of humor, and he makes things easy to understand for us non-astrophysicists.

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    glad you guys enjoyed those. they came from fora tv's page on youtube. in case you are interested the fora tv's website is hella cool and can be addictive. it isn't only science, it has stuff on culture, politics, business, etc. you can find some really fascinating talks on there.

    here is the site address:

    http://fora.tv/
    "The bumps you feel are asteroids smashing into the hull."

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    Thanks for the link - put it in faves and will definately check it out!

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    Pretty cool, loved the vid on the black hole lol.
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