Cornell course teaches black holes
could be linked to ‘racial blackness’
New York Post,
by
Jackie Salo
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
6/23/2021 12:27:03 PM
Cornell University has introduced an astronomy course to explore the connection between the term black holes and “racial blackness” — proof, say critics, that even the hard sciences aren’t immune to universal “racial hysteria.”The course, titled “Black Holes: Race and the Cosmos,” uses work from black studies theorists, artists and fiction writers to challenge “conventional wisdom” about the role that race plays in astronomy.“Conventional wisdom would have it that the ‘black’ in black holes has nothing to do with race. Surely there can be no connection between the cosmos and the idea of racial blackness. Can there?” reads the college catalog description.
Kiss my white hole.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
cny 6/23/2021 12:32:30 PM (No. 824265)
They are charging far too high a price for such an inferior product.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Thos Weatherby 6/23/2021 12:34:05 PM (No. 824268)
Is Black Friday next?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Toby Ten Bears 6/23/2021 12:35:49 PM (No. 824270)
How far past ridiculous does this country have to go before someone puts the brakes on this type of insanity.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
marbles 6/23/2021 12:37:30 PM (No. 824273)
In the entire universe and beyond, it seems that is nothing that is not " racist ".
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
coyote 6/23/2021 12:38:47 PM (No. 824276)
More derangement from the deranged. Black hole means no light is omitted.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Iconoclast 6/23/2021 12:42:48 PM (No. 824278)
Beyond absurd. Its called black because the gravity is so strong not even light can escape it, so it looks like a black hole in the universe.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
jalo1951 6/23/2021 12:44:07 PM (No. 824280)
Stop it, stop it, stop it! So much stupidity on parade.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
tsquare 6/23/2021 12:47:09 PM (No. 824283)
The idiocy is strong here. There are very dark people on most of the lands of the world…having nothing to do with the intellectually devoid concept of race.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Newtsche 6/23/2021 12:47:12 PM (No. 824284)
Crazier than an outhouse rat as a way of life.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Safari Man 6/23/2021 12:54:17 PM (No. 824290)
The Dark Side of the Moon is... racist, and Pink Floyd should be renamed Black Floyd in honor of George.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
red1066 6/23/2021 12:58:13 PM (No. 824294)
How in the world did this course get approved? An astronomy course about racism because a black hole is called a black hole? It's called a black hole because that's exactly what it is. Apparently there is no light escaping Cornell as well.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Twinkle93 6/23/2021 12:59:55 PM (No. 824297)
And Ithaca's city water COULD be the source of the stupidity of Cornell's professors and majority of their graduates.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Venturer 6/23/2021 1:01:59 PM (No. 824301)
These are people who are alleged to be intelligent.
People who are teaching our youth.
Race has invaded everything.
It's getting so passing wind is racist.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 6/23/2021 1:11:51 PM (No. 824316)
LOL! This is hilarious stupidity.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
lgplgp 6/23/2021 1:30:19 PM (No. 824328)
SSDD -- Same S*** Different Day. Way way back in the mid 1970's at Ohio State University, a professor of Relatvistic Astrophysics presented a seminar talk titled "Are Black Holes Excitable" -- He soon had a parade of the "excited" protesting outside his office.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
SkeezerMcGee 6/23/2021 1:36:17 PM (No. 824332)
At a conference in New York in 1967, Dr. John A. Wheeler, coined the term “black hole.” Before then these (yet to be discovered objects) were known as "dark stars" or "frozen stars." Dr. Wheeler is also credited with coining the word "spacetime." Dr. Wheeler helped invent the theory of nuclear fission, and under his leadership Princeton University became the leading American center of research into Einstein's general theory of relativity.
In early 1970 two British astronomers, and a student at the University of Toronto, independently announced the discovery of a massive, invisible object more than 6,000 light-years from the Earth. It was codenamed "Cygnus X-1" and is regarded as the first black hole to be identified." **
** http://www.shttpsciencefocus.com/space/who-really-discovered-black-holes/
P.S. There's no evidence that suggests Dr. Wheeler was a racist.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Son of Grady 6/23/2021 1:36:22 PM (No. 824333)
I wish Carl Sagan was still here so he could
"B"-slap these fool professors.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 6/23/2021 1:39:56 PM (No. 824336)
We have black holes.
We have white holes.
But the worst of all are a**holes!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
paral04 6/23/2021 1:42:39 PM (No. 824337)
Maybe we should have a different method of identifying African Americans race as black and return to the Negro term, which of course means black in Spanish, but who cares.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
PostAway 6/23/2021 1:44:12 PM (No. 824339)
Hey kids! Now, the elite college experience can be yours for a fraction of the cost and effort. Spend an entire year at our first class children’s camp and complete with a pre-frontal lobotomy! And, for the athletically inclined, we have “scholarships” where your genitalia are removed for free!
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
bad-hair 6/23/2021 2:05:49 PM (No. 824357)
Hang on a minute. You're moving too fast. I just yesterday got used to using the term "holes of color" and i know it's MY fault.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 6/23/2021 2:20:25 PM (No. 824364)
One’s a gravity well, the other’s a stupidity well.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
davew 6/23/2021 2:24:22 PM (No. 824368)
The story is not without some historic basis. John Wheeler was lecturing on the science of collapsed stars and struggled with coming up with a good name. One of the members of the lecture audience yelled out "Black Holes" and everyone laughed because of its somewhat sexual connotation (at least to physics nerds). It appeared in one of Wheeler's many papers and the editors were uncomfortable with it for just this reason but it was hard to argue with a giant like Wheeler so they let it in and it became the popular term. It wasn't really a race term but more a "racy" term.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
texaspast 6/23/2021 2:30:19 PM (No. 824373)
Come on, guys - this has to come from the Babylon Bee, right?
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
erobot 6/23/2021 2:41:09 PM (No. 824380)
I've been around the block quite a few times in my 86 years and never have seen a black or a white human being. We are all shades of brown from the palest northern European to the darkest sub-Saharan African and SO WHAT.
Enuf already.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
downnout 6/23/2021 3:14:40 PM (No. 824393)
Good.Grief. There is no end to the mining for grievances. A highly profitable enterprise.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Luandir 6/23/2021 3:15:10 PM (No. 824394)
There is nothing the race industry won't seize and contaminate in the name of advancing grievance and division. I suggest we send these professors as a delegation to Cygnus X-1 to lodge their protests directly.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 6/23/2021 3:15:16 PM (No. 824395)
News Flash !!!!
Blackjack Chewing Gum has just been renamed - - Equityjack Chewing Gum. Ask for it at a candy counter near you.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 6/23/2021 3:25:32 PM (No. 824404)
At least they aren't called "N" word Holes.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
marbles 6/23/2021 3:40:22 PM (No. 824418)
They can only get away with being racist ( and that's what this is ) because sane people do not stand up to this idiocy.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Omen55 6/23/2021 3:55:08 PM (No. 824441)
Satan would like a word about the Black Mass🤦♂️
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 6/23/2021 3:56:46 PM (No. 824443)
#22, ROFLMrear-endO
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
skacmar 6/23/2021 4:27:23 PM (No. 824488)
Just goes to show that there are a lot of stupid smart people at Ivy League Schools. Does this mean that Christmas is only for White people because of the song "White Christmas". Can only Black people sing songs with the word Black in it, White singers only use the color white. The PC crowd needs to stop taking everything so literally and finding offense at everything and anything. As for this class, the student who take it will be more dumb for having attended it.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
kono 6/23/2021 6:08:30 PM (No. 824598)
Battaglia and Vaziri must have pulled this one out of a smelly, black hole.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Ashley Brenton 6/23/2021 7:43:34 PM (No. 824653)
How do you get a semester's worth of lectures out of this ridiculous premise? This is like turning a small book like "The Hobbit" into a 9 hour, three movie, blockbuster debacle.
Look, color comes from light. A spectrum. The absence of color, in space, means black is what you are left with. Because a singularity that does not permit even photons of light to escape will, by necessity, be black.
Or...we could assume that the first theorist to conceive of the nature of a collapsed, dead star looked upon that discovery as an opportunity to stick it to black people.
Yes...we might think that. If we are morons.
Or...we might gather up some courage and break some uncomfortable news to black people. Namely, you do not loom as largely in our thoughts and preoccupations as you imagine yourselves to do. That is as nicely as I can put it.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
smokincol 6/23/2021 8:03:23 PM (No. 824665)
now this story is beyond comprehension but the libs will eat it up, regardless of their level of education. Michael Savage, another great American, calls them "sheeple" how apropos,
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
anonymous 6/23/2021 9:07:33 PM (No. 824716)
There is no end to the silliness, really.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
mifla 6/24/2021 11:50:41 AM (No. 825167)
We move from stupid to stupider to stupidest.
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