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Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday July 26, 2006 @04:15AM from the big-bangs-and-other-fun-videos dept.

Krishna Dagli writes to tell us Yahoo! News is reporting that NASA scientists have managed to simulate the merger of two massive orbiting black holes. Using technology from Silicon Graphics, Inc. built from 20 SGI Altix systems the team was able to show how the resulting gravitational waves would interact with surrounding space.

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didn't know processors have memory (Score:3, Funny)

by uioreanu ( 554486 ) * writes: <prophp&gmail,com> on Wednesday July 26, 2006 @04:16AM (#15782339) Homepage

By linking four, 512-processor Altix systems .... NASA enabled the scientists to access all of the processors' memory at once.

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imagine (Score:2, Funny)

by Criliric ( 879949 ) writes: <Shane.belaire@gmail.com> on Wednesday July 26, 2006 @04:28AM (#15782376)

imagine a beowolf.... nevermind :)

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Black holes colliding? (Score:4, Funny)

by MindCheese ( 592005 ) writes: on Wednesday July 26, 2006 @04:34AM (#15782393) Homepage

Man, that would suck.

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Dude ... (Score:5, Funny)

by Savage-Rabbit ( 308260 ) writes: on Wednesday July 26, 2006 @04:56AM (#15782447)

Man, that would suck
... don't be so dramatic, intellectual and moral black holes collide on Capitol Hill every day and we still haven't been sucked in.

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Re:Black holes colliding? (Score:4, Funny)

by MickDownUnder ( 627418 ) writes: on Wednesday July 26, 2006 @05:36AM (#15782545)

I think you meant.... that would be heavy man !

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Re:That's good... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday July 26, 2006 @07:29AM (#15782786)

Poke them in the eye, just don't get your hand stuck

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