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Old 05-January-2008, 08:14 PM
grant hutchison grant hutchison is offline
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Originally Posted by tdvance View Post
I seem to recall a fictional short story in which some 60 y/o astronauts in a ship decided to drop into a huge black hole, big enough that they'd survive 30 years to look around inside thehole before the tides start tearing the ship apart.
That would need to be a big black hole.
About 6x1013 solar masses; the mass of a hundred galaxies, or thereabouts.

Grant Hutchison
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