What's So Great About Ushas?

Jeffrey Brent McBeth · 10 Jun 2008, 13:10 · from 2008-June.txt.gz

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From: mcbeth at broggs.org (Jeffrey Brent McBeth)
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:10:38 -0400
Subject: (urth) What's So Great About Ushas?
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On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 03:52:47AM -0500, Roy C. Lackey wrote:
> 
> I have always thought that the Ship really was there to stage the eclipse
> that saved Sev's bacon. The eclipse was not a coincidence. Obviously, it is
> a physical impossibility for any vessel to transport or even come near a
> black hole, so if the Hierogrammates are the ones who put it in the sun, and
> regardless of when it happened, how was the deed done?

Err, not impossible at all.  The easiest way to transport a black hole would
be to dump a bunch of electrons into it and then use an electrical field to
move it around.  If you had a big enough mass and enough time, you could
also just use gravity to move one around.  

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