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Re:Why was it so hard to take a picture of a black hole? by ben_w on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @07:14AM (#19672652)
Messier 87* has a Schwarzschild radius of ~17.784 light hours. The scale of the universe is enough that the mother of my ex had a panic attack when watching a YouTube video about things much smaller than that — hypergiant stars.
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Re:Why was it so hard to take a picture of a black hole? by perfmode on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @10:08AM (#19673722)
Funny enough: two of my lay friends had panic attacks when i described to them the distance to the nearest black hole.
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Re:Why was it so hard to take a picture of a black hole? by irrational on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @09:29AM (#19673366)
What was the cause of the panic attack?
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Re:Why was it so hard to take a picture of a black hole? by ben_w on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @11:17AM (#19674373)
From what I understood, the realisation that the Earth, that everything and everyone she’d ever known, was an invisible speck next to an invisible speck compared to the largest star.
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Re:Why was it so hard to take a picture of a black hole? by Izkata on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @01:35PM (#19675593)
Ahh yes, the Total Perspective Vortex.
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Re:Why was it so hard to take a picture of a black hole? by ikeyany on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @11:35AM (#19674548)
Some people don't react well to having their ego obliterated.
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Re:Why was it so hard to take a picture of a black hole? by dclowd9901 on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @10:41AM (#19674006)
Probably the innate fear of infinity
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