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[kaijyuu]

Relatively low mass black holes are totally possible, actually. The event horizon would just be really small, and it'll almost immediately evaporate due to hawking radiation.

[ChairmanPoo]

You don't have enough mass to become a 'black hole' really.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_black_hole#Minimum_mass_of_a_black_hole

In principle, a black hole can have any mass above the Planck mass.

[moocowmoo]

Fun fact: News organizations write obituary packages well in advance of a public figure's death. (And by public figure I mean politician, celebrity, rich people, ect...) I imagine they must have put together fairly large pieces on Jobs as early as 3 years ago.

So to them, this is a chance to show off their production skills.

lol how cynical yet not surprising. I can just see them rehearsing their material too as the person gets sicker. I didn't care for Steve Jobs much but it's shameful to disrespect the dead, RIP.

[Neonivek]

To admit though... If I had to write a eulogy for my father... Id much rather have it in advance then to make it after he died.

Scary thing is >_> my father already picked a peice of music he wants me to play during his funeral... I can't play it.

[forsaken1111]

Relatively low mass black holes are totally possible, actually. The event horizon would just be really small, and it'll almost immediately evaporate due to hawking radiation.

But what happens when the hawking radiation has nowhere to go? In that scenario your entire universe would be defined by the few nanometers between portal interfaces.

[Neonivek]

Relatively low mass black holes are totally possible, actually. The event horizon would just be really small, and it'll almost immediately evaporate due to hawking radiation.

But what happens when the hawking radiation has nowhere to go? In that scenario your entire universe would be defined by the few nanometers between portal interfaces.

Maybe we should move this to its own thread...

Unless Steve Jobs made Portal as well... In which case, I guess this is appropriate.

[Bauglir]

Relatively low mass black holes are totally possible, actually. The event horizon would just be really small, and it'll almost immediately evaporate due to hawking radiation.

But what happens when the hawking radiation has nowhere to go? In that scenario your entire universe would be defined by the few nanometers between portal interfaces.

Eventually particles would escape through the gap at the edges of the portals, except for those whose initial trajectory is perfectly perpendicular to the portal surface and which aren't interfered with by other particles ever. Well, if the portals are rotated relative to one another, there might be some other infinite paths, but they're still going to be a great minority of the particles.

[Jacob/Lee]

(CBS/WTSP/AP) NEW YORK - The friends and family at Steve Jobs' funeral will apparently be joined by the serial funeral protesters of the Westboro Baptist Church.

Yes, the Westboro Baptist Church - the Kansas-based organization with a history of holding controversial and politically inflammatory protests - has announced that its members plan to picket the Apple co-founder's funeral, according to CBS affiliate WTSP.

The Washington Post notes that Margie Phelps was among several church members to tweet about Jobs' death.

"He had a huge platform," Phelps wrote. "...gave God no glory & taught sin."

Phelps is the daughter of church founder Fred Phelps.

Westboro Baptist Church has stirred widespread outrage with raucous demonstrations at the funerals of U.S. military service members. The group contends God is punishing the military for the nation's tolerance of homosexuality.

On Wednesday, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against a Missouri town's funeral protest ordinance in favor of members of Westboro Baptist Church, saying peaceful picketing is protected by the right to free speech under the First Amendment.

Oh, the group announced the protest on Twitter via - yes, really - iPhone.

Westboro Baptist Church announced plans Wednesday night to protest Steve Jobs’s funeral, sending the message out. . .wait for it. . . via Twitter for iPhone.

Margie Phelps, daughter of the small church’s founder and the lawyer who represented the church during their First Amendment case at the Supreme Court, (which Westboro won,) was among the Phelps family members to use Apple products to Tweet about the death of the Apple co-founder.

“Westboro will picket his funeral.He had a huge platform; gave God no glory & taught sin,” Margie tweeted Wednesday night on her iPhone.

The Topeka, Kan. based church is mostly made up of Phelps family members but has risen to international infamy because of their funeral protests of celebrities and American soldiers. The church’s members believe that God punishes America for its tolerance of sin, including acceptance of homosexuality.

The iPhone-wielding Westboro members seemed unable to find any irony in their embrace of the technology of a man they condemn. One church member even suggested that God was using Jobs to help advance the message of Westboro Baptist Church: “God used Steve Jobs to create amazing STUFF for WBC to preach,” wrote Shirley Phelps-Roper.

Oh my god, I hate these people so much.

[ed boy]

That is horrible.

[Neonivek]

Oh my god, I hate these people so much

I don't know... It is in essence something that only benefits projects Steve Jobs started.

[kaijyuu]

That's some crazy jackassery.

[Jackrabbit]

You know they tweeted that God created the iPhone so they could preach their message on it?

So they actually consider Steve Jobs their God.

[Angel Of Death]

You know they tweeted that God created the iPhone so they could preach their message on it?

They can't be serious. They must just be real life trolls.

[Siquo]

Posted by my ex-girlfriend, who is now a doctor helping these kinds of kids in Africa:

[Starver]

Barring the grammatical error, it happens and isn't a modern-day thing.

One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.

(You may consider Stalin to be modern-day, but he won't have been the first to note this.  In fact it probably wasn't him, but he's the more popularly attributed source for this, among others of the same era.)


Not saying it's right, merely a fact.