wasser@9227.DEC (John A. Wasser) (08/16/85)
>Incidentally, Russians refer to black holes as "frozen" stars because >...the star appears to freeze up... > - Paul M. Koloc Another reason the Soviets call them Frozen Stars is that "Black Hole" is a gross obscenity in Russian. If it wasn't they would probably call them Black Holes like the rest of the world. -John A. Wasser ARPAnet: WASSER%VIKING.DEC@decwrl.ARPA Usenet: {allegra,Shasta,decvax}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-viking!wasser Easynet: VIKING::WASSER
dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady) (08/20/85)
> Another reason the Soviets call them Frozen Stars is that "Black > Hole" is a gross obscenity in Russian. If it wasn't they would > probably call them Black Holes like the rest of the world. > > -John A. Wasser Back when I was in college someone gave a talk entitled "A Black Look At Black Holes." Came the talk we found the lecture hall filled with about 30% scientific types and 70% humanities. The humanities types began to filter out when they realized the nature of the topic. Presumably they assumed the talk had something to do with race, although in any context other than physics the expression is obviously offensive. -- D Gary Grady Duke U Comp Center, Durham, NC 27706 (919) 684-3695 USENET: {seismo,decvax,ihnp4,akgua,etc.}!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary
sra@oddjob.UUCP (Scott R. Anderson) (08/23/85)
In article <275@ecsvax.UUCP> dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady) writes: >Back when I was in college someone gave a talk entitled "A Black Look At >Black Holes." Came the talk we found the lecture hall filled with about >30% scientific types and 70% humanities. The humanities types began to >filter out when they realized the nature of the topic. Presumably they >assumed the talk had something to do with race, although in any context >other than physics the expression is obviously offensive. >-- We often get "humanities types" at the physics colloquia here, especially when the talks have exotic or "sexy" titles such as the above. They probably begin to filter out when they realize that the talk is technical in nature and therefore not understandable without some background. Scott Anderson ihnp4!oddjob!kaos!sra