galaxy to blackhole:

"hey! stop it fucker!"

No, by crushing the earth you increase it's mass (density). As the mass increases the gravity surrounding it increases.

What they're saying is if you could compact the earth to that size, it would be so dense it's mass would be high enough to have enough gravity to create a blackhole.

>> ^HollywoodBob:
Anyone else think it would be awesome if Bill Gates and Warren Buffet would get together and give the auto industry the money they need out of their own pockets? "Forget the political bullshit we'll save you, but this is what's going to happen to get you going and make us our money back."


I think that would be stupid of anyone to just give any auto company the money. You don't give someone who can't succeed in business money and expect them to pay you back. Instead of throwing money in a blackhole, they could buy controling interest in the company and then replace the failed executives.

That's funny. That sounds exactly like what will happen so long as the government and their bailouts stay out of the market. Provided, the company will only be bought out if there is anyone who thinks it can be saved, and if there isn't anyone who thinks it can be saved, that says a lot about the state of those companies. When someone wouldn't buy a company "on the cheap" because they don't think they would be able to make their investment worthwhile, that says a lot about the state of the company in the market.

This is just ...wow. I think I took an improv class with this guy here in Vegas. Can you get so self-absorbed that you literally collapse in on yourself and create a walking assblackhole?

Or just open a wormhole to the blackhole from within/near the sun itself.

I got to lvl 46 and YOU become the weapon. It got too lame for me at that level. My favorite is the mini-map sphere it took me forever to figure out what that one was and also how the "get over here" spheres work. Self-destruct blackholes and shrink blackholes are cool. The goal is to kill as many when they are small and always kill the little ones that pop-up near you.

Anyone know what the "bubble bugs" do at the higher levels? Just screw you I guess.

blackholes should bend the light behind them. yet the stars behind the blackhole do not seem to warp. how do they explain that?

A documentary on super massive blackholes.

sure sure, you were right posting it, it's not a dupe.

but it has already been posted twice and it failed to qualify. And I'm happy with that because I think this video sucks so hard it could become a blackhole.

no offense intended to you and to people who like it. offense INTENDED to the author(s).

Computers will never be humans and humans will never be computers.

The fact is for whatever amazing abilities computers possess they do not possess the ability to strive for something better, this is unless we code as an AI evolutionary routine.

Man's ability to process information in completely non-linear ways is fascinating, and something I don't think the next 50 years of research will come close to really figuring out.

That's what allowed Newton to come up with the theory of gravity by just observing an apple fall to the ground, the same when Einstein started asking hypothetical questions such as what will happen if two object travel at the speed of light, Stephen Hawking when due to his disability developed an entirely new way of looking at mathematics that lead to his famous work on Blackholes. Cascading thought processes.

The fact is as Rembar says a totally self evolving AI leads to a mass growth at the expense of actual ability to contextualize the information to a certain end. This is where man's id and ego I think come into effect directing the computational power to an end via a complicated psychological system of assigning relevance be it mathematical constants, personal will to succeed or insightful thinking.

I think that will be nigh on impossible to replicate on an AI, at least not in the next 50 years and then another 50 to refine it.

I would have to agree and disagree here Theo, I believed in the same thing, that any amount of aid is warranted. But the fact is that such methodology should only applied in critical situations, the fact is the willingness and dedication is never there when it comes from the foreign nations, there is a knee jerk reaction at the onset of something terrible which is slowly replaced by something else. I mean look at how the world is just standing by watch Darfur self implode. This does not mean I don't support aid programs to it, I just support aid programs that actually factor in what they are trying to do and not try cause more harm by being there. Such as Oxfam, EWB and others http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Road-Taken-Mdecins-Sans-Frontires

Yes America and such has resources and the same can be said of Canada, but one must also remember these nations were developing nations at one point as well. There was no Great British empire giving aid donations to the New World colonies when they emerged (Boston Tea party?).

Africa is not devoid of natural resources to develop itself, it was colonized specifically for it's natural resources (North and South Rhodesia).

However there is problem when you have the interference of aid agencies. Let me give you an example, the provision of electrical power is very important for the development of any economy. Thats a given fact. Development of such power grids and the lines to support them in Africa was funded by NGOs at first, only what this gave rise to is an infinite loop of waiting for more donations to spread the power grid further. People didn't think about raising themselves out of the problems themselves, it became "let's wait for the NGO to do it", and unfortunately there are hundreds of idealistic organizations out there waiting to come in.

This is totally against the way the same issues were settled in Canada and the US during it's development phase after Nicola Tesla's provision of AC power to the Western world over DC by Edison. The Canadian goverment knew that provision of electrical power to all communities in Canada was an important developmental issue, so they would develop the system via goverment subsidy and provide the service to the population at a loss to itself. This is how cheap, affordable electrical power was provided for.

In Africa what happened in various projects was that local electrical power is provided for in localities by NGOs, the goverment then basically sits on it's hands waiting for NGOs to modernize the countryside. However such development is not sustainable in the long term. The reason the goverment subsidized power grid layout worked in Canada was because you had development from centralized localities outward and not a splotch of various power generators all over various communities the NGOs went to.

My basic point is this, yes aid is good, but only aid that is properly vetoed against it's actual effects on the local populace and development as a long term goal. Aid that is looking to end it's own presence in the developing world so it can become developed.

The sad fact at the crux of it is this. NGOs are beholden to themselves. It is profitable for them not to do their job properly because how else are they supposed to raise money for issues. AIDs is always mentioned as the biggest killer in Africa, its not, it's malaria. But how media sensational is malaria compared to HIV/AIDS? NGO's always use their altruistic aims to cover up serious flaws in their application and usage. Look at United Way, just recently found out to spend more then 50% of it's allocated fund raised cash to basically pay itself and inflate its own growth. The whole Live8Aid fiasco a year ago, where did the money go? How was it applied? Does the average person know? No. It's always going into Africa, like it's some blackhole for cash donations.

This is why I like the approach of Melinda and Bill Gates foundation that is strictly self regulating. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (B&MGF) is the largest transparently operated charitable foundation in the world, founded by Bill and Melinda Gates in 2000. The primary aims of the foundation are, globally, to enhance healthcare and reduce extreme poverty, and, in the United States, to expand educational opportunities and access to information technology.

Asian economies in the Eastern rim were also poor and underdeveloped just 50 years ago. Look at how sound goverment policy, education and proper investment in infrastructure has allowed places like Taiwan, South Korea, other Asian Tigers to thrive. There were no NGOs or AID agencies there to do that right?

An incredible journey through the formation of the universe, firstly on the creation of our Solar System and continuing with the following:
Part Two: Staying Alive
Part Three: Blackholes (Farhads Sift)
Part Four: Are We Alone?
Part Five: New Worlds
Part Six: Boldly Go

The intersection of two black holes in space... leading to a singular super massive black hole.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Stephen-Hawking-and-Black-Holes

http://www.videosift.com/video/Space-On-Blackholes

Tags changed from "sciene, blackholes,sam neil, space,cool" to "science, blackholes, sam neil, space" by gold star member mauz15.

It is possible VS server is blackhole-ing traffic to your IP block.

How very weird that videosift is the only sites blocked. videosift.pl and videosiftlatina.com are on same server, but different than videosift (maybe same hosting provider).. Are there any other sites you can get to like revver or something.

Try google cache http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:TlU_dPPdWR8J:www.videosift.com/

or like other oppressed peoples, use google translate
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