On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 4:59 PM, Terren Suydam <[email protected]> wrote:
> > If you were in one of the galaxies involved with the colliding black > holes, would you be close enough to the gravitational waves to feel them on > any kind of macroscopic level such as the one we inhabit? > Over at the Extropian list Anders Sandberg did a rough calculation and figured you'd have to be closer than 80,000 miles for it to be lethal to the human body directly. Granted a thousand times that distance would cause severe earthquakes, but that's still only 80,000,000 miles, so unless those two black holes are in your very own solar system and are closer to you than we are to the sun (and if 2 black holes are that close then you have severe problems regardless of the gravitational waves) there isn't any reason to worry about killer gravitational waves. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
