Originally posted by Ptr_GrifinComparing an asteroid to a basketball. Come now.
Size isn't always a factor in things like this. A solid metal ball the size of a baseball is easily heavier and more denser than a hollow Styrofoam ball with a six foot diameter. Which would be easier to break with a punch?
No, the analogy is sound. If you're too one or two dimensional to see it, that's your problem.
For example, it would be harder to hold a black hole in your hands, than to shift a continent or stop tectonic plates. And a fist sized black hole is easily the more impressive feat, despite being a 1/100,000th (or a smaller fraction) of the size.
Originally posted by quanchi112
Comparing an asteroid to a basketball. Come now.
Not quite sure why you think I'm comparing an asteroid to a basketball.
My comparison would be the baseball sized metal ball compared to the moon and the 6 foot Styrofoam ball to the asteroid.
As psycho mentioned, asteroids can be quite dense. But reading a little further, some very large asteroids are actually a lot of smaller ones held together loosely by gravity, & can easily break apart when colliding.
Originally posted by TricksterPriesthow did you get to that conclusion? is your avatar a picture of a young steven hawking?
No, the analogy is sound. If you're too one or two dimensional to see it, that's your problem.For example, it would be harder to hold a black hole in your hands, than to shift a continent or stop tectonic plates. And a fist sized black hole is easily the more impressive feat, despite being a 1/100,000th (or a smaller fraction) of the size.
Originally posted by psycho gundam
how did you get to that conclusion? is your avatar a picture of a young steven hawking?
Considering a black hole the size of your first would weigh more than the Sun and a continent would not . . .
EDIT: Well a few times the weight of the Earth now that I check but obviously the point still stands.
Now I did the math! (r = 2.95(mass)/mass of the sun) where r is radius in km *nerdgasm*
Assuming an 80mm radius for a human fist the mass of a black hole of equal size comes to 5.4x10^25kg. That's ten times the mass of the Earth. I'm pretty sure there are no continents that weigh ten times as much as the planet they're on.
^ i know all about black hole's super density and mass, it's just that superman needed help to move lesser weights. it seems like that one instance was a little ouside his capabilities given other things he's done.
and i don't believe he lifted the black hole he "held", he was more so shielding it's effects from the environment. at the size of a human fist, the event horizon would still be beyond where his hand was. so him even doing what he did should not have happened.
Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
Now I did the math! (r = 2.95(mass)/mass of the sun) where r is radius in km *nerdgasm*Assuming an 80mm radius for a human fist the mass of a black hole of equal size comes to 5.4x10^25kg. That's ten times the mass of the Earth. I'm pretty sure there are no continents that weigh ten times as much as the planet they're on.
Except that, as we already went over in the general discussion forum months ago, a fist-sized black hole wouldn't have the mass of the sun behind it. Your numbers are complete speculation. And the last few pages of this thread have been complete fail.
Can we please get back to hyping or degrading Hulk or Darkseid? Please?