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  • About FtlIsAwesome
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    Male; nerd; geek; n00b; currently working on a scifi series
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    Making a fool out of myself
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    Astronomy and math and chemistry and engineering and computers and pizza and Cheetos ...
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    Eating junk food and pestering fellow PFers
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    This forum is fantastic for people trying to write fiction that doesn't utterly trample physics. - Misericorde
    A story has a lot more resonance to me if I can look at it and say that it could actually take place in reality. - Razorback-PT
    Bigger. Better. Supreme Lard. - Sloganmaker

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Posted Sep2-11 at 07:50 PM by FtlIsAwesome Comments 1
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This forum is fantastic for people trying to write fiction that doesn't utterly trample physics.


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This forum is fantastic for people trying to write fiction that doesn't utterly trample physics. - Misericorde



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This forum is fantastic for people trying to write fiction that doesn't utterly trample physics. - Misericorde
A story has a lot more resonance to me if I can...

Posted Feb19-11 at 10:27 PM by FtlIsAwesome Comments 2
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Officer 1: "Oh no! That black hole has sucked up the entire Zeta system!"
Officer 2: "Isn't that system 5,000 ly away from the black hole?"

One of the earliest inaccuracies I noticed in fiction is about black holes. We occasionally see them as superpowerful funnels eating a galaxy or two. Or three.

In actuality a black hole's reach is limited. If the sun suddenly turned into a black hole (aliens did it!), the planets wouldn't be "sucked...
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