I revel in the destruction of formulaic redundancy, especially when the phenomena occurs from time to time on the sift when a small contingent of back-patters load the place with atheism=great, Christians, etc. (insert faith-based philosophies) =shit, and most political offerings in the form of republicans/conservatives=shit, democrats/liberals=my-shit-doesn't-stink-like-theirs videos.

Also a frequent and predictable phenomena, that a single down-vote, tinctured with an alternative perspective in comments, has the gang come spilling from the douche-works like cockroaches to offer their smarmy, childish two-cents, in order to make themselves feeeeel good. Hate this shit. It shows a lack of a certain social evolution from which I instinctively recoil.

Your retort here, predictable as well:
Opening with sarcasm, a self-aggrandizing confession followed-up with an insult with reference to my character. Thank you though, for the black hole comparison, gravity and light do not have a chance of escaping me.

As to some ' deliberate affectation designed to make me appear intellectual'
You might want to check your own understanding of intellectual versus one's perception of self, I tend not to place much credence in the concept, overrated and ultimately soulless when used to assert one's own importance or place the herd over some one else.
Intelligence in the grand schemata, does not necessarily connote wisdom.

Quite simply, when I see atheists deride another belief system with childish and derogatory banter like a gang of hyena stealing meat I treat them like a pack of feral creatures and similarly, I tend to shit on people's assumptions of how the world would be a better place if everyone thought the way "I" do regarding politics.

It's fucking tired and boring and makes the place to myself, look like a very untalented graffiti artist used sub-par aerosols to deface a shrine or temple.

I have fan boys? Awesome!!

Fan boys... bring me beer!

hmmm... still waiting. Clearly if I do, they are slackers.

I had you on ignore for a while, but you do have the occasional gem in the midst of the nonsense. Besides, you derail threads to such an extent that ignoring you is pointless.

It's kinda like a black hole. Even if I personally couldn't see you, I'd still observe the effect.

Believe it or not, I don't actually have a personal problem with you. Very occasionally, you're funny or interesting. But you seem to revel in disruption just for the sake of it, and I still don't know if you genuinely don't get that you communicate in a way that makes you difficult to understand or if it's a deliberate affectation designed to make you appear intellectual. Pretty sure I'm not alone in this.

Shame Dota is so impenetrable to spectators that haven't played the game. I imagine a lot of the excitement from this clip needs context beyond even the simple mechanics of the game. I've mostly stopped playing Dota now but its such an enjoyable game to watch atm. Great casters/production, lots of prize money and teams with a lot of character. Winning formula.

I was screaming like a girl when I watched it live. Unashamed Navi fanboy here. I think this was more misplay by iG though, and some smart drafting by Navi. They consistently gave away Siren knowing that as long as they could get Enigma or Tide the Song was as much a set-up for them as it was for their opponents. Dendi's Rubick play in that tournament was the standout for me. Stealing Ravage after Ravage was amazing to watch. Nice to see Enigma getting some more play again recently now that Magnus fell out of the pool a little. Isn't anything quite as hype as 3/4/5 man Black Hole.

*related=http://videosift.com/video/The-Black-Hole-Wars-My-Battle-with-Stephen-Hawking

Leonard Susskind - The Black Hole War has been added as a related post - related requested by kulpims on that post.

The Black Hole Wars: My Battle with Stephen Hawking has been added as a related post - related requested by kulpims.

Disney's Black Hole... yay upvote!!

wait a minute..... nope, just some interesting science ruined by autotune.

You had me at Disney's The Black Hole.

And then his transcended ancestors took a snapshot of our planet from the beginning to the end of humanity, but his fragile elderly mind couldn't handle the data and a black hole opened in his head.

Well not terrible... Maybe this is a school project for a CG school and that student could use some feedback?

Car looked good enough, but dark patch should have had more reflection(thus making it lighter and not a black hole) and the real give-away is the animation... it sinks like a brick when in reality a car would float for a while, probably with the engine lower in the water. Google is your friend, lots of real videos of cars in water out there to reference.

cheers.

First of all, I like your standpoint, nothing wrong with that. We simply don't know, maybe the big bang was an imploding black hole in another plane of existence, creating our own 4 dimensional reality. Maybe it was an omnipotent being looking like a giant spider with Panda bears instead of arms, maybe both.
Although Occam razor would suggest the first alternative (which on a grand scale sounds equally ridiculous to me), we still don't know.

And secondly ask yourself this (I don't mean you in special bobknight), "Is it even possible to consider biological evolution in isolation from everything else?". I don't think thats possible, first we need something like really huge stars to create heavy atoms (i mean everything with more protons than helium, that's not what a chemist would call heavy). We need smaller stars that don't burn up that fast and deliver energy, we need a planet in the right distance to this star. Ohh and the planet itself doesn't have the properties to sustain life from the beginning, earth also had to "evolve" to the kind of planet that was able to sustain life and therefore start the biological evolution. There are many more of these requirements and they also needed to "evolve" from this huge pile of energy called the big bang.

As above, so below.

Doesn't our whole solar system eventually end up out the other end of a humungous black hole??

Ok,
I have been pondering this same question for the last two years; mainly reading about the earliest recorded events of humanity and focusing on the science that led to where we are today; Obviously, anything earlier than Planck Time cannot be resolved scientifically, so there's a leap of faith there just like with religion.
One of the major discoveries I stumbled into is that religion exploded around the same time human cuneiform (writing) was invented. The oldest and most prolonging religion from panbabylonism is Mesopotanian Religion which extended from 4200 B.C. to 600 A.D. Religion's first and foremost goal was self-governance; in other words, since the lawmakers couldn't watch you all the time, they figured out a way to make a policeman within you, they called him God. He knows if you've been good or bad, so be good for goodness sake!
On the topic of the universe itself, logic dictates that as humans, our limbs and torso are mostly there to supply the brain with energy; extrapolating this a few billions years (and assuming we can survive that long), we could end up with no limbs at all. There is also the strong craving for putting more and more information in smaller and smaller space; Again, extreme extrapolation would dictate that over infinite time, the universe would be filled with smaller replicas of itself where the golden ratio of sufficient universal information vs space volume proliferated across time-space might indeed bring the universe online. The ultimate no-reservations goal of the universe would be for it to become self-aware...

All I have said here is in direct contradiction with information loss from black holes, and the big freeze, but I like to think this way as a Gedankenexperiment. I don't necessarily believe what I say, and I'd like to hear other sifter's thoughts about what they think is the role of the universe.

...thought I was finally going to hear about the hungry black hole feeding upon....

From 1000th of the mass to 1/6th...it really begs!

@maestro156, Ya, the new understanding of the event horizon is that of annihilation, so once you hit that edge, your basically dead to everything outside the edge. That isn't certain...there is still a lot that we don't understand about BHs and singularities. With that said, scooping off high energy plasma near a black hole would be lots of energy