It started when Obama was elected. The US wasn't quite ready for a black president but he was so great people loved him. Then the Russian disinformation began. Then rage bots were invented. Ai got more and more powerful until now when probably 50% of online comments are not of human origin and NO ONE TALKS ABOUT IT. Then n Korea figured out how to do not warfare. Then Iran. Then China.
Until like a shining star on a hill the most manipulable human to ever commit a crime started amplifying the anti American propaganda like a good little boomer and the bots swarmed to support anything he said. It started with the birth certificate 15 years ago. The Republicans couldn't WAIT to stand in line. Then came the Christians. Then the white supremacists. Then the rednecks.. all beating the drum of Russian propaganda.
Putin KNEW Trump would run the country into the ground like he did every business he ever ran. Wait, what was Putin's specialty in the kgb again? Oh yeah... The Destabilazition of international governments through propaganda. His specialty was media control.
IT WAS OBVIOUS FOR DECADES. We KNEW Russia was engaging in a propaganda war against the American people. But the 80 year olds in government couldn't understand any technology more complicated than a 1980's VCR.
I fucking hate everyone for this. It was all so preventable. Another American civil war is almost inevitable. AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HE WANTS. THE WHOLE PLAN FROM THE BEGINNING WAS TO MANUFACTURE A SCENARIO THAT WOULD ALLOW HIM TO DECLARE MARTIAL LAW AND CANCEL ALL ELECTIONS FOREVER. FUCK! CAN'T YOU SEE IT???
What pisses me off the most is that I can't forgive my friends and family who were all in for this train wreck. All of this was plainly obvious to anyone not in the cult. No one listened. My own sister (cop's wife ofc) laughed when I told her he was a fascist. My best friend said Biden would ruin America. I said, are you kidding? Can't you see it?? No. They couldn't. They couldn't fucking see the bullet flying. I hate them for this. I hate that these Nazis have divided me from my loved ones. I just can't stop blaming them.
I have been saying this for 20 years and it remains true. Everything only gets worse. So while today is the worst day in history, things are the best they will ever be again. I promise, with 100% certainty, that one day you will look back on the troubles of today with nostalgia at the innocence of our times. Pick any year you thought things were bad. Would you trade ANYTHING to be back there right now? That's what ten years in the future feels like.
They are classified by mass. Some are definitely bigger than others. The one in our Galaxy called Sagittarius A has as much mass as over 4 million if our suns. If it were in our solar system it would be physically as big as the orbit of Venus.
The mass of black holes is typically measured in multiples of our sun, or stellar masses. A supermassive is measured in the millions to billions of our sun, while a "small" black hole is just a few dozen suns big. The small ones, or stellar mass black holes can hang around like stars and over a galaxy but the supermassive ones are the things that create or hold the galaxy together.
"How can time end" is more complicated. Without getting too complicated with it imagine putting a drop of red food coloring in a pool. Imagine it in slow motion. The big bang is the moment the food coloring hits the water. Then the food coloring spreads out but for a while you can clearly see the red. We are at the point in the age of the universe where the red is still visible in the water. At some point the red will spread out so much you can't see it anymore. Without getting too dramatic that would be called the heat death of the universe. At that point time effectively stops because there is nothing left to change, meaning the red itself carries time with it. This is also called entropy.
So to travel into a black hole would be to fast forward to the point where the universe has become so spread out that atoms and the bits inside that make up the atoms fall apart, effectively ending time. Time itself is a measure of change. Nothing left to change means no more time. So that's when the black hole ends. It's a little more complicated than that but if you can understand what I just said you are about 90% of the way to understand everything we currently think we know about black holes.
The singularity of a black hole is measured in time, not distance. The center exists at the end of time so that's where you go. So how long? -all of the time remaining in the universe.
Those red cartridge style needles that cheap turntables use will destroy your records. If at all possible, buy an old player. Or, buy new but don't cheap out on it. Your collection will inevitably contain rare and unreplaceable records. If you want to preserve them for the next generation don't skimp on your gear.
Thanks for the warning 15 years too late.