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Old AB question...astrophysics. You are in a spacecraft in orbit around the earth. The earth turns into a black hole.

What happens to your spacecraft? This question was posed by a physics professor at the University of Hawaii and I used to ask it to my students.

Posted - January 13, 2017

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  • 44604
    With enough dilithium crystals anything is possible.
      January 16, 2017 8:21 AM MST
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  • 7280
    Ah, yes, the deus ex machina solution.
      January 16, 2017 12:33 PM MST
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