Remind me to hide under my bed if that happens.
> Posted by: "ChuckB" gumboyaya@cox.net gumbo482001
> Date: Thu Aug 2, 2012 9:53 am ((PDT))
>
> Robert,
>
> You shared:
> > http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21648-earth-has-little-to-fear-from-a-black-hole-.html
>
> The authors were treating "far field" effects, assuming you are not
> standing in the path of the tiny primordial black hole. They do mention
> local effects such as cracking rock. If the PBH passed through a person,
> the effect would probably not be too dissimilar from the effects of a
> small caliber pistol.
>
> They also only considered the average speed of objects in "open orbits,"
> which means they would be fast enough to transit the Earth in about a
> minute and supersonic in the atmosphere. They did not consider slower
> moving cases for which the object might make multiple passes or even
> stay within the Earth, in which case it would grow and slow further.
> This would lead to the scenario that captures public interest.
>
> Chuck
>
> Posted by: "ChuckB" gumboyaya@cox.net gumbo482001
> Date: Thu Aug 2, 2012 9:53 am ((PDT))
>
> Robert,
>
> You shared:
> > http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21648-earth-has-little-to-fear-from-a-black-hole-.html
>
> The authors were treating "far field" effects, assuming you are not
> standing in the path of the tiny primordial black hole. They do mention
> local effects such as cracking rock. If the PBH passed through a person,
> the effect would probably not be too dissimilar from the effects of a
> small caliber pistol.
>
> They also only considered the average speed of objects in "open orbits,"
> which means they would be fast enough to transit the Earth in about a
> minute and supersonic in the atmosphere. They did not consider slower
> moving cases for which the object might make multiple passes or even
> stay within the Earth, in which case it would grow and slow further.
> This would lead to the scenario that captures public interest.
>
> Chuck
>
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