What really gets me is all the marvelling at how incredibly impossible it is that they're in orbit around a black hole when, um, it's perfectly possible. That and the dead body floating off the planetoid, apparently because it was being "sucked in" by the hole... Black holes are not magical vacuum cleaners! They have gravity that works the same as everything else's gravity, it's just really really huge, if you get close enough. What was really impossible about that planet is that they could live on it without being horribly fried by x-rays from all that crap falling into the hole.
Really, I loved that episode, but I sometimes think that I shouldn't be allowed to watch SF shows that deal with things like black holes. Stupid astrophysics degree... :)
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Date: 2006-12-12 04:50 am (UTC)Really, I loved that episode, but I sometimes think that I shouldn't be allowed to watch SF shows that deal with things like black holes. Stupid astrophysics degree... :)