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	<description>I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog.</description>
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		<title>By: BILL7718</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/15/sucked-into-a-black-lol/comment-page-1/#comment-135072</link>
		<dc:creator>BILL7718</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I KNEW that a cat would destroy the world!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I KNEW that a cat would destroy the world!</p>
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		<title>By: Gary Ansorge</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/15/sucked-into-a-black-lol/comment-page-1/#comment-134945</link>
		<dc:creator>Gary Ansorge</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Brian Lang: LOL!

As a drummer friend of mine once said,&quot; If you feed a dog, he thinks you&#039;re God. If you feed a cat, it thinks IT&#039;S God and wonders why you gave it cat food when it ordered steak.&quot;

GAry 7</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Brian Lang: LOL!</p>
<p>As a drummer friend of mine once said,&#8221; If you feed a dog, he thinks you&#8217;re God. If you feed a cat, it thinks IT&#8217;S God and wonders why you gave it cat food when it ordered steak.&#8221;</p>
<p>GAry 7</p>
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		<title>By: Ken_g6</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/15/sucked-into-a-black-lol/comment-page-1/#comment-134852</link>
		<dc:creator>Ken_g6</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I like the lolscience that Naomi linked to.  For instance, think of this as Phil, as a cat, on vacation...

http://community.livejournal.com/lolscience/47350.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I like the lolscience that Naomi linked to.  For instance, think of this as Phil, as a cat, on vacation&#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://community.livejournal.com/lolscience/47350.html" rel="nofollow">http://community.livejournal.com/lolscience/47350.html</a></p>
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		<title>By: Ronn! Blankenship</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ronn! Blankenship</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Phil said:

&quot;. . . they certainly occupy space (right where you want sit). At least they heat it.&quot;

Tom (as black as the one in the photo, with even longer hair) doesn&#039;t:  he waits until *I* have heated up the spot, then if I get up even briefly, he is there . . . and about as hard to move as a black hole of comparable radius . . .</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Phil said:</p>
<p>&#8220;. . . they certainly occupy space (right where you want sit). At least they heat it.&#8221;</p>
<p>Tom (as black as the one in the photo, with even longer hair) doesn&#8217;t:  he waits until *I* have heated up the spot, then if I get up even briefly, he is there . . . and about as hard to move as a black hole of comparable radius . . .</p>
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		<title>By: StevoR - Correcting</title>
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		<dc:creator>StevoR - Correcting</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Incidentally &#039;Neko&#039; means cat in Nihongo - Nihongo being Japanese for Japanese. ;-) Just in case anyone was wonderin&#039; .. :-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Incidentally &#8216;Neko&#8217; means cat in Nihongo &#8211; Nihongo being Japanese for Japanese. <img src='http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' />  Just in case anyone was wonderin&#8217; .. <img src='http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: StevoR - Correcting</title>
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		<dc:creator>StevoR - Correcting</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;b&gt;IBY&lt;/b&gt; said on November 15th, 2008 at 3:36 pm :
&lt;i&gt;
&quot;Black hole cats must give one million times more bad luck than the normal ones.&quot; ^_^ &lt;/i&gt; 

Actually black cats are &lt;b&gt; &lt;i&gt; good luck. &lt;/b&gt; &lt;/i&gt; 

Always have been for me ... Same with the number 13 too. ;-)

Luck is what you make of it -and seruiously in many places and culturs black ctas are lucky justlike thenumber 13 has no bad connotations elsewhere where as other numbers have negaticve feras and superstitions projected upon them ie. 4 in Japan is like 13 inour culture -although with a smidgin more reason as it is a homonymn (sound-alike for death &quot;shi&quot;) 

Anyway folks it has got me wondering - what&#039;s &lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt; catty black hole meausere in solar masses eh? 

0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 mass solar  or something like it? ;-) 

Must make it a record low-mass black hole!! 

A Hawking micro-black hole perhaps - or maybe a Schrodinger one? ;-)

&lt;i&gt; PS. We can&#039;t create the dot-in-a circle solar symbol thingy here in any way can we folks?  &lt;/i&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>IBY</b> said on November 15th, 2008 at 3:36 pm :<br />
<i><br />
&#8220;Black hole cats must give one million times more bad luck than the normal ones.&#8221; ^_^ </i> </p>
<p>Actually black cats are <b> <i> good luck. </i></b>  </p>
<p>Always have been for me &#8230; Same with the number 13 too. <img src='http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Luck is what you make of it -and seruiously in many places and culturs black ctas are lucky justlike thenumber 13 has no bad connotations elsewhere where as other numbers have negaticve feras and superstitions projected upon them ie. 4 in Japan is like 13 inour culture -although with a smidgin more reason as it is a homonymn (sound-alike for death &#8220;shi&#8221;) </p>
<p>Anyway folks it has got me wondering &#8211; what&#8217;s <i>that</i> catty black hole meausere in solar masses eh? </p>
<p>0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 mass solar  or something like it? <img src='http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' />  </p>
<p>Must make it a record low-mass black hole!! </p>
<p>A Hawking micro-black hole perhaps &#8211; or maybe a Schrodinger one? <img src='http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><i> PS. We can&#8217;t create the dot-in-a circle solar symbol thingy here in any way can we folks?  </i></p>
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		<title>By: StevoR</title>
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		<dc:creator>StevoR</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Awww! That is so-oo like my cat Neko - also all black! 

I&#039;ll have to wait until she&#039;s curled up and photograph my big fat neko cat for comparison. :-D ;-) 

Cute.

Also funny &amp; classic! 

Thanks Bad Astronomner &amp; LOL cats! :-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Awww! That is so-oo like my cat Neko &#8211; also all black! </p>
<p>I&#8217;ll have to wait until she&#8217;s curled up and photograph my big fat neko cat for comparison. <img src='http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':-D' class='wp-smiley' />  <img src='http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' />  </p>
<p>Cute.</p>
<p>Also funny &#038; classic! </p>
<p>Thanks Bad Astronomner &#038; LOL cats! <img src='http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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