How to Spackle and Plaster a Black Hole

Phil Shapiro writes "With the recent reports about a lab-made black hole, it's useful to go over the directions of how to spackle and plaster a black hole. You can complete such projects in one weekend, but you wouldn't want to spackle and plaster a black hole every weekend."

Phils sense of humor is in fine shape

[Almost-Retired]

Subject says it all.

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Re:Phils sense of humor is in fine shape

[Almost-Retired]

Well I'll be... First post! And then they've raised the time between posts to 2 minutes. Now that sucks.

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two in one

[sailforsingapore]

With the right technique, what was once a gaping hole in the universe can blend in smoothly with the surrounding space.

Good...there is hope for my hometown yet...

You can complete such projects in one weekend?

[Lars T.]

And I thought making a black hole was space-time consuming.

Re:You can complete such projects in one weekend?

[fm6]

It is! But it consumes more space than time...

I suspect a cover up

[fcolari]

I thought if it was small enough you could just use a dab of toothpaste. Worked in my apartment for our posters. Sshhh... don't tell my landlord.

What's next?

[mOoZik]

Trading blackholes? Get your neighbors to spackle, plaster, and renovate your boring old hole into one that is chic! Coming soon on the Discovery Channel.

/lame joke, just laugh. please?

;)

I guess...

[cfavader]

It's good to see the hobbyist will never die no matter how lame things get...

Doesn't this belong somewhere else?

[nsaneinside]

Oh, whoops, Slashdot doesn't have a "Humor" section. Better put in in "Science," then.

Re:Doesn't this belong somewhere else?

[rdwald]

Um, Slashdot does have a humor section. Which is where this was categorized (in addition to the Science section, since it is, after all, science humor.)

Re:Doesn't this belong somewhere else?

[nsaneinside]

It's not terribly funny, though. Maybe we need a "Bad Humor" section...

Ever notice..

[Anonymous Coward]

Ever notice how humour articles usually don't work on slashdot? By "don't work" I mean "fail to generate any interesting discussion".

The standard internet forum response to an article of this calibre would be to post a single line comment such as "LOL" or "That's a cool link. thx." The standard slashdot response will be a few, very nerdy jokes that no will bother to moderate because they aren't particularly funny (like most of slashdot humour). Lack of moderation leads to few posts rising above a 3 th

Re:Ever notice..

[DaemanUhr]

I have to agree, I'm not sure how the post made it here in the first place. I kept waiting for something witty or clever as I got further in, some abstraction of physics or recent news that made it worth my time to read this, but sadly no such thing ever occurred...

Practical

[bar-agent]

"Stuff that matters." Mmm-hmm.

On the other hand...black holes do have matter...and spackling one would be stuffing stuff in one...

Nah.

Black Holes

[NPN_Transistor]

Finally... I can get rid of those unsightly black holes. Now there's a kit selling for only $9999999999999.95! And if I order now I get a free extra set for tackling those extra-large black holes at the center of the galaxy! On second thought, maybe I won't order. Then I can say that a black hole ate my homework. Unfortunately they will evaporate and explode so I need to by the Hawking Radiation compensating device powerd by the Tachyon condensators of course...