Black Holes?

WillBuckingham
 April 02, 2009, 06:42 AM posted in General Discussion

Terrible things, black holes. One moment you are minding your own business, the next minute you turn into spaghetti before disappearing for good...

Has anyone else noticed a 20-hour black hole has opened up here on Chinesepod? Looking over community activity for the past day, at this end there is nothing between 3 hours ago and 23 hours ago (and a couple of posts I wrote last night have disappeared although admittedly there's no cause for mankind to mourn greatly over this). So I'm just curious to know if this is only a problem at my end, or whether there's been a site-wide glitch.

It's nice to see the 15 minutes to edit your post thing back in action, though.

Best wishes,

Will

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WillBuckingham
 April 02, 2009, 06:45 AM

Aha! Just read the thread over here. It's always reassuring to know it's not just you...

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changye
 April 02, 2009, 06:48 AM

Black Hole 黑洞 (hei1 dong4)

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bababardwan
 April 02, 2009, 07:16 AM

I'm glad it was black holes causing spaghetti and not the other way round or I may have felt guilty by association with my noodles and hennings swiss spaghetti harvest posts.Mind you,I could always blame it on the flying spaghetti monster Pete let loose on the site a while back.

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changye
 April 02, 2009, 07:26 AM

Things swallowed by a black hole would possibly appear somewhere, sometime in the future. 

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bababardwan
 April 02, 2009, 07:41 AM

...after one's brain had been squished to an infinitesimally small size,I'd suggest "not as we know it,not as we know it"

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WillBuckingham
 April 02, 2009, 07:43 AM

Is there no escape from his noodly appendage?

As for reappearing, I really don't like the sound of that "possibly", Changye. But for those planning on entering a 黑洞 some time soon, this YouTube clip may be useful.