This is why we don't leave black holes lying around

Just because it is Thursday, funny, and well done…

 

Note: This post originally had a foretitle of “hump day hilarity”, with a reference to Wednesday aka “hump day”. Somehow the post scheduler didn’t work (or I goofed which is more likely) and it published today instead of next Wednesday.

I was offline doing other real work and didn’t notice until later.  – Apologies, Anthony

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Pamela Gray
June 23, 2011 4:55 pm

Would that post-normal science meet the same fate.

PaulH
June 23, 2011 4:55 pm

I learned years ago that portable holes are useful, but must be used with care…

June 23, 2011 5:11 pm

Ha ha! greed got the better of him.

June 23, 2011 5:14 pm

Pamela Gray says on June 23, 2011 at 4:55 pm
Would that post-normal science meet the same fate.

They are half-way in the hole already … greed (position, power, grant-money) will see they make it all the way in (just like our ‘friend’ in the video!)
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Menth
June 23, 2011 5:16 pm

Uh….it’s Thursday.
Typical denialist misinformer error. JK!
[Already fixed, but thanx. ~dbs, mod.]
REPLY: I thought I had this setup to auto-publish next Wednesday, when I’ll be at the Heartland conference, but I somehow mangled the start time. Sorry – Anthony

Paul Deacon
June 23, 2011 5:36 pm

It’s been Friday for over 12 hours here in NZ.
REPLY: Darn those post schedulers, – I must have mangled the publish time. – Sorry – Anthony

Gary Hladik
June 23, 2011 5:36 pm

So that’s where the missing heat went!

DanDaly
June 23, 2011 5:41 pm

The old legal maxim: “Pigs get fed; hogs get slaughtered.”

June 23, 2011 5:44 pm

I think they did it with special effects.

Cathy
June 23, 2011 6:14 pm

Hmmmm . . .
That was really creepily, cleverly funny. Watched it all the way through . .
Then saw the next video in the queue. “Too short.”
Tsk! Tsk! ;-D

Douglas Dc
June 23, 2011 6:28 pm

Beep!Beep! Acme, a name you can trust…
Love it…

Psion
June 23, 2011 6:48 pm

Hmmm … I rather enjoyed “Too Short”. Not on the same level as “Black Hole”, but it had it’s … advantages.

June 23, 2011 7:16 pm

Ringo has a hole in his pocket.

June 23, 2011 7:27 pm

Hm, didn’t mean to display the vid again, and the wrong url got entered.
Sorry!
Too Short has over 64 million views, and the Black Hole only 9 million. So Too Short is 7X better!
[Error fixed. ~dbs]

KR
June 23, 2011 7:47 pm

Lmao!
Saw that when it came out, great video…

grayman
June 23, 2011 8:21 pm

That was awsome! LMAO. Now to watch Too short.

June 23, 2011 9:06 pm

It is remarkable how much time and energy it takes to move a hole which consists of … nothing. I once had to move a doorway one door width over.

NikFromNYC
June 23, 2011 9:26 pm

ACME changed it’s name to McMaster-Carr:
http://www.mcmaster.com/#confined-space-rescue-equipment/=cvq7pn
Their smoke generators page won’t load on this iPhone, so search away. I’d make a quick shot with the camera of their print catalog but TinyPic.com also won’t cooperate with my mini operating system. My computer is currently entertaining boisterous folk.

June 24, 2011 12:07 am

Helpless with mirth! This is going viral!

Kelvin Vaughan
June 24, 2011 1:51 am

I invented a black hole fly trap. You hang it from the ceiling on a bit of string and when a fly goes near it’s sucked in and crushed. Trouble is I dont know what to do with it when it gets too big.

AdderW
June 24, 2011 1:54 am

shows that you cannot trust sticky tape

Bob in Castlemaine
June 24, 2011 2:32 am

Is this really the end?
Just be careful what you wish for!

Annei
June 24, 2011 5:10 am

Very funny!

Matthew W.
June 24, 2011 5:29 am

As a claustrophobic,
It scared the bejesus out of me !!!

Olen
June 24, 2011 5:33 am

I’m not sticking my hand in there. It has the power to amputate.