Grrl Power #1432 – Dead leg
Sure, an actual Black Hole can probably absorb a lot of energy before it destabilizes. In fact, as far as I know, they can absorb an unlimited amount of energy. I allow for some wiggle room there because maybe if 6,000 pulsars were somehow aimed at a black hole, (you know, the energy jets that come off of pulsars that emit 100,000 times the energy of our sun,) so if that much energy hit one all at once, maybe that could fuck it up. Probably not, but two black holes nearly hitting each other has to have an effect. Maybe a huge black hole can rip a little one to bits and invert its event horizon? I don’t know.
But the pixie’s singularity spell isn’t a true black hole. It’s limited by the magic used to create it, and it was actually designed to suck up a lot of shit, hold it for a few seconds, then barf it all back out once the pixie had relocated either it or herself. Maxima figured if that was the case, then disrupting the containment might light it off early. And she didn’t even have to use her own energy beam.
Here is Gaxgy’s painting Maxima promised him. Weird how he draws almost exactly like me.
I did try and do an oil painting version of this, by actually re-painting over the whole thing with brush-strokey brushes, but what I figured out is that most brushy oil paintings are kind of low detail. Sure, a skilled painter like Bob Ross or whoever can dab a brush down a canvas and make a great looking tree or a shed with shingles, but in trying to preserve the detail of my picture (eyelashes, reflections, etc) was that I had to keep making the brush smaller and smaller, and the end result was that honestly, it didn’t really look all that oil-painted. I’ll post that version over at Patreon, just for fun, but I kind of quit on it after getting mostly done with re-painting Max.
Patreon has a no-dragon-bikini version of of the picture as well, naturally.
Double res version will be posted over at Patreon. Feel free to contribute as much as you like.
“Flat tire” in this case doesn’t refer to a vehicle tire, but to stepping on the back of someone’s shoe, so that they pull their heel out of the shoe when they step. I’m guessing this is called a “flat tire” because the heel of the shoe flopping as they step, should they continue walking, has a similar visual and sound to a flat vehicle tire going around.
The metaphor is a bit tortured here, but I believe she kicked it in about the right spot, considering the final frame. It was just hard enough to break it at the knee, but not hard enough to cut right through at the point of impact.
Yeah, can see the impact point about halfway between the heel and the knee
That would be enough to break it off at the knee: hit it hard enough to bend it forward (knees don’t naturally bend that way on most bipeds) until the knee snaps
Meanwhile, the audience may have forgotten, there is an epic and stunning battle occurring over here! Huge robots, black holes, Maxima flexing…
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Fiiiine… Where the Sydney double-d’s at?
“Sure, an actual Black Hole can probably absorb a lot of energy before it destabilizes. In fact, as far as I know, they can absorb an unlimited amount of energy”
Slight misconception there. Black holes aren’t some kind of cosmic vacuum that things just “slip into.” They’re the visible effect of an insanely strong gravitational well caused by a huge amount of mass. For example, a black hole whose event horizon is roughly the size of New York City would need about seven times the mass of the Sun concentrated at its center.
So thinking in terms of “how much energy it can absorb” is backwards. Anything that falls in (matter or energy) actually increases the black hole’s mass, even if only by a tiny amount. From the perspective of general relativity, a black hole only grows stronger when it takes in stuff. In theory, the only way to shrink or get rid of a black hole is to somehow remove mass from it, which is beyond our current understanding of physics.
well, Black Holes are theorized to lose mass through hawking radiation – the lighter they are, the more the radiation they leak (because they don’t have enough mass to contain the energy)
So if you feed a black hole more energy than they lose through hawking radiation… they would likely increase in mass indeed :)
problem is you need to pinpoint the singularity to do that :)
You forget that based on Einstein’s equations, it’s been hypothesized that once a black hole reaches a certain saturation point there is a sort of quantum overload that happens to force it to eject all of its mass and become what’s known as a “white hole” (I’m not kidding, look it up) – some think pulsars themselves are possibly white holes from super massive stars.
Sydney’s bosom has got it goin’ on.
(Fountains of Wayne plays in the background)
Yeah with a big change… or should I say two big sudden changes, there’s gonna be some time needed to adapt.
Shoot, didn’t notice it paged back before I commented >.< oh w/e lol