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View Poll Results: Which climate so you prefer?
The Sun 7 31.82%
A black hole 15 68.18%
Voters: 22. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 02-06-2018, 12:07 PM
 
Location: 64'N Umeå, Sweden - The least bad Dfc
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I was inspired to make this climate battle by Adrianna Smiling. It's similar but I think this one is unique and interesting enough to warrant a new thread. So we have two very sifferent climates.

Contender number one: The Sun. This is definitely the pick for warm weather lovers as the average temperature is 5505'C. It's also the best for those who love sunbathing since the UV indices are very high there.


Contendor number two: A black hole. This is definitely the one for cold lovers seeing as the average temperature is -273'C. I personally think it's the most comfortable too; you can always put on more clothes, and I don't think AC's can operate at the temperatures of the sun. That's why I'm voting for this one.


Let me know which you prefer!
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Old 02-06-2018, 12:29 PM
 
Location: Broward County, FL
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Black hole as it reminds me of my ex-girlfriend's heart.
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Old 02-06-2018, 12:35 PM
 
Location: Foreignorland 58 N, 17 E.
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Ask me on a hot July's day and I'd said Black Hole, but during the biggest cold wave yet this winter, I'll have to go with the sun
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Old 02-06-2018, 12:37 PM
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Location: Western Massachusetts
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I'll add if the black hole is absorbing any matter nearby it'd be hot — if it's absorbing a decent amount it'd much hotter than the sun. The speed of any matter falling falling is very high; about 6% of its mass [non-rotating black hole] is converted to energy that escapes before it gets sucked in.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/spa...s-mass-energy/
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Old 02-06-2018, 12:47 PM
 
Location: 64'N Umeå, Sweden - The least bad Dfc
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I'll add if the black hole is absorbing any matter nearby it'd be hot — if it's absorbing a decent amount it'd much hotter than the sun. The speed of any matter falling falling is very high; about 6% of its mass [non-rotating black hole] is converted to energy that escapes before it gets sucked in.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/spa...s-mass-energy/
I thought so but then I googled and this came up: "The most massive black holes in the Universe, the supermassive black holes with millions of times the math of the Sun will have a temperature of 1.4 x 10^-14 Kelvin. That's low. Almost absolute zero, but not quite. A solar mass black hole might have a temperature of only .0.00000006 Kelvin."
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Old 02-06-2018, 12:51 PM
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I thought so but then I googled and this came up: "The most massive black holes in the Universe, the supermassive black holes with millions of times the math of the Sun will have a temperature of 1.4 x 10^-14 Kelvin. That's low. Almost absolute zero, but not quite. A solar mass black hole might have a temperature of only .0.00000006 Kelvin."
that's for black holes that aren't absorbing anything; surrounded by nothing and literally black. The surrounding of a black hole sucking up matter like the one below would be hot



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accretion_disk
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Old 02-06-2018, 01:04 PM
 
Location: Trondheim, Norway - 63 N
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Evaporate or get spaghettized and compressed to nearly nothing? :-|
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Old 02-06-2018, 01:09 PM
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Evaporate or get spaghettized and compressed to nearly nothing? :-|
whichever one you'd last longer? Maybe some really heat-proof spaceship that blocks radiation. I'll go with the sun.
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Old 02-06-2018, 01:09 PM
 
Location: Portsmouth, UK
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I vote for The Sun, especially if they bring back 'page 3'...
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Old 02-06-2018, 01:10 PM
 
Location: Finland
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I find the climate boxes unrealistic. In order to obliterate everything the supermassive black holes must be cooler at the edges I think?

The Sun's surface temperature also varies, as we see in sunspots. If the Sun was 5,50499999999999999999999999999 I'd vote for it, but as the edges of a supermassive black hole is only like -190 I'll go with that
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