Welcome to 100 Ways to Die in Space
Hi there bloggies, welcome to a new and fun little feature – 100 ways to die in space. Taking inspiration from a million ways to die in the west I’ll be taking a somewhat tongue in cheek at the many and various ways that space is somewhat unkind to the average human being and it pretty effective at killing them very quickly. Step aboard and see what happens, just don’t come on wearing a red top!
Method 17 – Black Hole
This is quite an extreme method of finding your mortality in space and in a funny kind of way it might not ever happen, it depends on your point of view.
What I mean by this is that the close you get to a black hole time slows down, so if you fell part the event horizon things would stop. Our poor astronaut however seems things a bit differently…
The extreme gravitational distortion at a black hole would mean that the close part of one’s body were to the black hole the more they would be stretched when compared with the bit further away, this has the rather unfortunate effect of stretching that body out making some kind of human spaghetti. Once you get into this kind of pickle there’s isn’t much of a way out of it within the laws of physics.
It’s fair to say that as far as we’re aware of there are no black holes in our local vicinity so even at the speed of light it’s going to take a while to get there. The main thing really is to keep your distance and not get sucked in.
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2001 – An Art Odyssey
Any of my long time bloggiesw ill know that one of my favourite all time SciFi stories is 2001 A Space Odyssey. For quite some time I’ve been thinking about what piece of work I could do for this. Eventually I chose this one, alshtough I have to say now that I would have done … Continue reading 2001 – An Art Odyssey
Dear Mr Alien… Division
Dear Mr Alien, I do have to ask for your help here, you’ve probably done all of this and know what we’ve got to do but why do we humans make it so difficult for ourselves? Can you tell us where we’re going wrong? We humans as a race are divided like this and in … Continue reading Dear Mr Alien… Division
Blog Orbit – Blog Date September 2022
Hello there bloggies! It’s me, Simon – if you can remember me! I wasn’t about much last month and I’ve not got much to tell you but I do have a couple of things… Most of what the last month about focused on a few little things as far as I can see: 1) The … Continue reading Blog Orbit – Blog Date September 2022
A Galaxy of Stars
A few weeks ago the sky was clearer than I’ve seen it for a long time and after seeing the success of someone else taking a picture with my same camrea I thought I would try the same settings and give it a go. The big variable with taking astrophotography pictures is the quality of … Continue reading A Galaxy of Stars
Astro Pics – 2 Planets and a Cluster
The nights over the last few weeks have been quite clear over England with the weather being unseasonably dry. This always offers some wonderful night time views of the sky and I knew it was coming up to the time where Saturn and Jupiter were in the sky. Then last week I say that yellowy … Continue reading Astro Pics – 2 Planets and a Cluster
Blog Orbit – Blog Date August 2022
Hello there bloggies! I can’t believe we’re already 10 days into August and I’ve not posted for a few week. That’s a bit bad of me… Over here on this little island the ship is sinking with no one at the helm, or we would be sinking if it wasn’t quite so dry here, we’re … Continue reading Blog Orbit – Blog Date August 2022
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I many like your beautiful blog. A pleasure to come stroll on your pages. A great discovery and a very interesting blog. I will come back to visit you. Do not hesitate to visit my universe. A soon.
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Hello – thank you so much. I love it when someone finds my blog and has such high praise for it.
I hope you come back soon and I will come and visit yours too 🙂
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“Spaghettification” will forever be one of my favorite scientific terms.
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As it should be! lol
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Yep. No bueno getting sucked in. Even if you survive the trip because of your cool probe ship, Disney never makes a sequel to show how you got back home.
Then again, given the “reboot it, reshoot it” mentality anymore, it’s probably coming…
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Yes I would always wonder what happened to them, it can’t have been a particularly positive fate…
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You’re thinking in real logic, not Disney logic. Remember that probe had returned at least once previously from the depths of that black hole thanks to it’s gravity nullification field.
If it worked as previously advertised though, why did they get sucked in at all? 😛
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Note who’s being logical? 😂
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He he cute. I am still waiting on Strawberry info by the way. 🙂
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I know you are – I will find out!
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Will definitely steer clear. And let the exercise do the stretching. 🙂
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That’s the best thing I think! It’s far less aggressive lol
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Haha! Definitely.
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