Dozens of internet denizens were abuzz Thursday after Newsweek reported that the Earth could be facing destruction inside the grips of a black hole.
A tweet with some accompanying dramatic art of what the black hole might look like, swiftly took off in some quarters. And, instead of fear, most responses focused on how pleased they would be to be sucked into cosmic oblivion.
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Gravitational waves could collide sucking Earth into a black hole https://t.co/G7FC01R72Z pic.twitter.com/mJBDCLnItS
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) August 30, 2018
“Hell yeah,” said BuzzFeed breaking news deputy director David Mack. “My body is ready,” seconded feminist author Jessica Valenti. Meanwhile, Monica Lewinsky wondered if, perhaps, the end had already come.
hell yeah https://t.co/uRZ3C4O2Q7
— David Mack (@davidmackau) August 30, 2018
… or maybe it already happened? ???”
– Monica Lewinsky (@MonicaLewinsky) August 30, 2018
Honestly, at this point, please… https://t.co/j1erUJdWFb
— jordan (@JordanUhl) August 30, 2018
Space keeps overpromising and underdelivering and I'm getting annoyed tbh https://t.co/CLcEEurNWS
— andi zeisler (@andizeisler) August 30, 2018
Finally some good news https://t.co/7qYCfypOvR
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) August 30, 2018
Wishes do come true! https://t.co/DOqv2kWsP4
— Donna Dickens (@MildlyAmused) August 30, 2018
What might be charitably labeled “death wish” Twitter, got so extreme that one HuffPost reporter, Ariel Edwards-Levy, was prompted to note the obvious.
“Is everybody ok,” she said? while also remarking on how her support of life on Earth would probably receive a torrent of criticism.
“Hot take: personally i like the earth and i hope it is not destroyed by a black hole, go on ratio me,” she said.
is everybody ok pic.twitter.com/KRe9E5I8Js
— Ariel Edwards-Levy (@aedwardslevy) August 30, 2018
hot take: personally i like the earth and i hope it is not destroyed by a black hole, go on ratio me
– Ariel Edwards-Levy (@aedwardslevy) August 30, 2018
It’s unclear how many people actually read past the headline, but the actual Newsweek article went on to explain how a new piece published in the journal “General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology” speculated about the Earth-destroying black hole being created by gravitational waves.
“If the waves were big enough, such as collision could create a black hole: an area of space with such a strong gravitational field that even light can’t escape from it,” Newsweek reported.
“The physicists believe such a freak gravitational wave could be powerful enough to tangle space-time. That in turn could create a black hole. The resulting black hole could swallow up 85 percent of the wave’s energy, while some of the lingering ripples would orbit the hole forever.”
As some said Thursday: Good.
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