[meteorite-list] Chicxulub Asteroid

From: Darren Garrison <cynapse_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:13:56 -0500
Message-ID: <ocb0b5lgriej9tsvnirv1kluj24no2nnks_at_4ax.com>

On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:52:00 -0500, you wrote:

>Given a black-hole of minimum mass and size
>m-sub-bh <<<< m-sub-earth, how long would it take
>to eat the entire Earth?

Trick question-- it wouldn't. Scientists would put a motor on one of Marses
moons, use it to knock a large asteroid out of solar orbit into Earth orbit,
capture the black hole inside the asteroid at the top of the black hole's orbit,
then use the black hole for garbage disposal.

That's how it worked in The Doomsday Effect, at least.

http://www.thomastthomas.com/SFBooks.htm
Received on Tue 15 Sep 2009 08:13:56 PM PDT