BBE/IE: Don Lemon

[BlameThe1st]

CNN's Don Lemon Asks Whether A 'Black Hole' Swallowed Malaysian Plane (VIDEO)

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We already know that CNN anchor Don Lemon leaves no "preposterous" conspiracy theory unexamined.

But when Lemon Twitter-sourced questions about the missing Malaysian Airlines plane again on Wednesday night he went another step beyond Sunday's "supernatural" event theory: he and his panel discussed the possibility of a "black hole" swallowing the jetliner.

He read out tweets that compared the mystery to "Lost" and "The Twilight Zone" before asking Mary Schiavo, a former U.S. Department of Transportation inspector general, to weigh in on the black hole theory.

"That's what people are saying," Lemon said. "I know it's preposterous — but is it preposterous you think, Mary?"

"Well, it is. A small black hole would suck in our entire universe so we know it's not that," Schiavo said. "The Bermuda Triangle is often weather. And 'Lost' is a TV show. So I think -- I always like things for which there's data history, crunch the numbers. So for me those aren't there."

"But I think it's wonderful that the whole world is trying to help with their theories and I absolutely love their theories," she added.

For a minute there, I thought I was watching Alex Jones. No wonder less people are taking the mainstream media seriously!

[Dallas Wildman]

I think the Idiot Extraordinaire should go to Mary Schiavo for that little gem:
"...a small black hole would suck in our entire universe."

Seriously ma'am a layman's understanding of astrophysics says that's bogus.

[Ibrahim90]

I think the Idiot Extraordinaire should go to Mary Schiavo for that little gem:
"...a small black hole would suck in our entire universe."

Seriously ma'am a layman's understanding of astrophysics says that's bogus.

that's an understatement. by her logic, the universe ended when super-massive black-holes formed in the centers of every galaxy.

frankly, Don Lemon doesn't really deserve this award--not for this anyways: he himself practically dismissed the idea as preposterous, so he's not a real problem (though I must question the need to even bring up this). And frankly, there are way dumber/more scumbag things done recently than what Lemon did here.

the whole episode does underline a huge problem: people don't understand black holes. that the idea was suggested in the first place is evidence of it:

1-black holes of a size that doesn't fuck up the planet would be unstable: they simply evaporate away before any damage can be done.
2-black holes that are stable would have destroyed the Earth, and the most common types would in fact completely re-arrange the solar system as well (since the minimum size of a stellar black hole is 3 solar masses)
3-black holes aren't vacuum cleaners: they don't suddenly have greater gravity than any other object of its mass at typical planetary distances: if a hypothetical black hole of 1 solar mass were placed in the barycenter of our solar system instead of the sun, no planets would fall into the event horizon: they'd simply continue to revolve round the hole as before.

[MrBogosity]

Yeah, that's already on the list. We'll go in to how black holes work.

[nilecroc]

So then megas xlr was telling the truth when mole man parody escaped a quantum singularity?