Telrao

Hey y'all!

So... you may have been wondering why I've disappeared for a few days...

Yeah the Shard's blocked at home and I have been banned. Wheee

Therefore, this is the last post I'm gonna make on here for a while. So I would like to say thank you!

Thank you all for your support in my art and my writing - it has really meant a lot, and has helped me grow and improve!

Thank you for being such an awesome community! It has been a joy to hang out with y'all and cause cHaOs.

I apologize to y'all in the RP's and Sanderson Elim games - @The Wandering Wizard, you have full permission to do whatever you like with Telrao. She is yours now.

It has truly been a delight and an honor to be with y'all! Until we next meet:

May the sun shine upon your face
The wind be at your back
The path lead you to whatever place
That brings you the joy you lack

I LOVE you all, and hope our paths shall meet again! Blessings
- Telrao *throws infinite muffins*

Hey y'all!

So... you may have been wondering why I've disappeared for a few days...

Yeah the Shard's blocked at home and I have been banned. Wheee

Therefore, this is the last post I'm gonna make on here for a while. So I would like to say thank you!

Thank you all for your support in my art and my writing - it has really meant a lot, and has helped me grow and improve!

Thank you for being such an awesome community! It has been a joy to hang out with y'all and cause cHaOs.

I apologize to y'all in the RP's and Sanderson Elim games - @The Wandering Wizard, you have full permission to do whatever you like with Telrao. She is yours now.

It has truly been a delight and an honor to be with y'all! Until we next meet:

May the sun shine upon your face
The wind be at your back
The path lead you to whatever place
That brings you the joy you lack

I LOVE you all, and hope our paths shall meet again! Blessings
- Telrao *throws infinite muffins*

I am so so done with this stupid society.

Why can't the world be like my backyard? Flowers, grass, trees... AND NO ANNOYING PEOPLE. No depressing politics or sad news or pointless arguments. Just the wind, the clouds, and the dirt. No talking, just humming. The endless expanse of sky instead of a cold war bunker school/prison.

Welp, I'm back, y'all!

I had an epic 3 days on youth camp! I drove (at the wheel, ofc) down to Phillip Island. We hung out a bit, then did a Great Race around Cowes (in Phillip Island). One of the items was to bring back a live seagull, and if you did, you won youth camp (no teams managed it, but we were so close).

Anyhow, we had several bible study sessions throughout the three days, looking at the Story of God - from Creation, the Fall, to Redemption and the Promise. It was pretty good!

I got buried up to my neck in sand and was turned into a sand sculpture - so that was great! I also turned into a five year old at the beach before that and was running around like a maniac. Excellent times!

On the last day we went to a highropes course - which was epiccc!! Why do humans enjoy almost killing ourselves so much? Anyhow, got to help a couple of friends conquer their fear of heights - so that was awesome!

So yeee! 'Twas an epic trip, had a lotta fun, learned a bit about God, and got to hang out with friends! Woot!

Have a wonderful day, everyone!

- Telrao *throws muffins*

Status: Mouth bleeding. Got punched in the face during gym class

Yippee

How many stars have we looked at?

Like, actually looked at?

Like, Hubble/Webb telescope looked at?

The fastest-spinning star we've ever found was a pulsar going at 700 RPM. However, some black holes have been theorized to be spinning as fast as 1150 RPM.

This matters to me (and therefore to you; no, I don't have any projection problems) because the speed of a black hole determines the Innermost Stable Orbit.

Fadran, what in the worlds is that?

You've all seen this image. The very first picture of a black hole. It was taken by applying a whole series of crazy equations to what's essentially just a really good cross-hatched image, and shows us the glowing accretion disk around the massive gravity well.

But SOMEONE ENHANCED IT WITH AI and so NOW YOU GET TO LOOK AT THAT

Beautiful.

Now, I could go on and on about how this was imaged and what each of the areas is and whatnot, but I made this SU about naked singularities and so you're going to hear about that.

So what if I asked you to point out where the Event Horizon was? Well surely, you'd think, it's where the dark part begins. Right around... here:

Makes sense. There's no glow here. It's completely dark. Clearly that's where the Event Horizon begins.

And you'd be  W R O N G

THAT, my friend, is the Innermost Stable Orbit for matter. See, black holes are spinning; and they're spinning really damn fast. So fast, in fact, that matter gets sucked in and starts spinning around them for the fun of it. They get pulled in and spun so freaking fast that they start to heat up and eventually glow, forming what you recognize as the accretion disk.

The Innermost Stable Orbit is the closest matter can get to the event horizon before it starts getting pulled in and eventually eaten. Past that any matter can practically spin around the black hole indefinitely, similar to how our moon doesn't fall into the Earth despite how hard we're pulling on it (it's actually falling away ever so slowly, but that's an SU for another time). But you can only ever spin matter so fast, so the Innermost Stable Orbit essentially acts as a secondary event horizon for matter only.

It's different for light, though. Light can move significantly faster than mass - that's its job, after all. So if it can move faster, then it can spin faster, meaning it can counteract a higher gravitational force and therefore be closer to the singularity than matter.

Surely this is the Event Horizon, then?

WRONG AGAIN

This is the -

...ah

...Idk if it actually has a name, but we'll just call it the VIP (very important photon) Innermost Stable Orbit.

The way to wrap your brain around this is to imagine what the Event Horizon actually is. It isn't just the point where "gravity becomes so strong that not even light can escape," it's "gravity becomes so strong that light moving literally perpendicular to the surface of the black hole cannot escape." We send ships into space by pushing them sideways in order to get that sweet sweet angular momentum for a stable orbit; this would be like trying to send a ship directly upwards against gravity and keeping it in orbit. Light is the fastest thing in the universe and even it can't put all of its energy towards escaping this bloody thing and win.

But what light would be moving perpendicular to the singularity in a black hole? All matter at this point is being invariably sucked in, and we know for a fact that black holes certainly don't give off any light of their own. This is a hypothetical inner limit where you stick a laser pointer on the floor and watch as literally no light escapes it. See, the light that actually would be hanging out here is coming in from elsewhere: such as towards the black hole. Obviously light heading right for it is gonna get sucked up, but spacetime is so warped here that light coming up beside it also gets sucked in after a bit of a bending. Light that's farther than that gets sucked in later, and light that's farther than that gets sucked in even later - such that there is a lot of black image around the event horizon where light heads in but eventually gets eaten.

The light that does barely escape is at 2.6 radii away, forming that little ring of technical visibility (though it's really kinda dark around there so you don't really see much of anything). Light coming at roughly that side will come out just skimming what we intellectuals like to call the Photonsphere, which is right around here:

Is that the Event Hori--

No.

The Event Horizon is here:

But that isn't important what's important is that  S P I N N I N G

See, the innermost stable orbit for mass and light COMPLETELY depends on how fast the black hole is spinning! In fact, these measurements I've been giving you are complete and utter gabbledygook because they are measurements for a schwartzchild black hole, which is fancy speak for a black hole which doesn't spin. These, in all likelihood, do not exist because they're formed from the likes of supergiant stars, neutron stars, and white dwarves, which are spinning before they collapse into black holes and continue spinning long afterwards.

Spinning, as I'm sure you're aware, is the best way to counteract gravity. You all know full well that there's no gravity in space, but when you look at the astronauts aboard the ISS they aren't floating around because their isn't any downward pull; they're floating because the speed at which they orbit the earth counteracts its gravity. In fact they're being acted upon with about the same amount of gravity as you or me, but the lack of an atmosphere and such makes it perfect for spinning around the planet really really fast and pretending like that gravity doesn't exist.

This means, of course, that you can get closer to a source of gravity by spinning around it faster; similarly, you can spin around it slower if you're further away. You might be seeing how this affects our Event Horizon and Innermost Stable Orbits: if the black hole is spinning really fast, then the stuff around it is spinning really fast, and if the stuff is spinning faster then the Innermost Stable Orbit gets closer.

How scientists measure spin in black holes is absolutely baffling in the sense that they made it really unfortunately overcomplicated. For some reason they measure it on a scale of 0 to 1? Like... huh??? Was RPM not good enough for you?

But anyways, black holes are spinning pretty fast. 

The problem is that they could hypothetically spin even faster.

Like I said, the fastest observed spinning black hole is going at 1.15k RPM. That, on these stupid physicists' scale, is 0.98 This means that its Innermost Stable Orbits are closer to the Event Horizon than they would be on other black holes: light could get closer to it without being sucked in, basically.

Now, this speed pretty closely approaches the speed of light, but not enough so to be particularly alarming in the Wonderful World of Very Fast Things. We've shot neutrinos and neutrons and such through vacuum tubes at much faster speeds than that. What scares the scientists, though, is the fact that a black hole could spin even faster - fast enough, even, that the VIP Innermost Stable Orbit could be smaller than the Event Horizon.

Scientists call this a Naked Singularity, because they're all children at heart.

We, of course, have no idea what this would look like. Seeing inside a black hole? Looking at a singularity? We haven't got a clue as to what the inside of an Event Horizon would "look" like, because there's so much bloody gravity that all our physics just stops making sense. But in this scenario, we could observe the goings-on in there.

Which brings me wayyyyyyyy back to how I started this SU: how many stars have we actually looked at?

Go outside. Right now. RIGHT NOW. If it's daytime you're excused (it's almost 1 AM here). Look up in the sky and stare at all those little red, white, and blue dots (...strange, how patriotic the sky can be). We probably haven't directly observed most of them. The big ones, sure. The bright ones, sure. The ones that do weird stuff, sure. But all of them?

And think of how many we've caught in the background of all our deep-space images and such. There's... a lot! Like, I don't even know what kind of number to begin with for how many there are. But to most of our images, they're all just big bright dots in the dark sky.

Which makes me think...

...wouldn't a naked singularity kind of just look like a big, bright dot to us? If we weren't looking at it real close, we'd just get its residual radiation to observe.

So what are the odds that one of those stars in the sky is actually a black hole that's spinning so blasted fast that you can see its singularity?

(Me after straining my hamstring...)

But anyway, I'm feeling a lot better now. I ran a meet today for the first time after the injury, and it didn't go too awful! Got third in the 800m

So funny thing happened

I went driving for the first time in several weeks - which is fun!

It also happened to be SUPER RAINY! Like, it could compete with London rain, it was that bad. Funny thing, it was also my first time driving in the wet. Yay.

I managed not to die, but SOME PERSON pulled out RIGHT IN FRONT OF US as we were driving at 80kph

In the wet

I had to slam on the brakes and swerve into the other lane to avoid t-boning them. Fortunately, there were no cars in the other lane but STILL

PEOPLE THESE DAYS AHHHHHHH

Oh yeah, I'm over halfway though The Shadow Rising! And AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I also wrote another poem just then... so yeee apologies in advance *wince*

OH OH ANNNDD I'M GOING TO YOUTH CAMP ON WEDNESDAY

WHICH IS GONNA BE FUN

WE'RE GONNA LIKE BE ON THE BEACH AND MADE SAND SCULPTURES IF THE WEATHER DOESN'T GO APOCOLYPTIC BUT Y'KNOW IT'S FUN ANYHOW

SO YEAH

HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY, GUYS!!

- Telrao *throws muffins*

If you ever introduce yourself to me as "I'm [name]. [Name] [Lastname]" then I immediately don't want to be your friend. Go away, you pretentious prick. No one cares about how suave you're pretending to be like that.

No human being has ever introduced themselves that way to anybody ever, but so many have the audacity to write their characters that way.

LOOOL YOUR PROFILE PICTURE (idk why it's so funny)

LOOOL YOUR PROFILE PICTURE (idk why it's so funny)

Hey, y'all!

I finished The Dragon Reborn yesterday and duuuuuuuuuuuuuuude that was SO AWESOME AHHH

I'm now about 1/4 of the way through the Shadows Rising... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH YEMSYEMS *excited noises*

I also wrote a slam poem randomly... 'cause why not.

It's pretty... chaotic? Is that the right word? In case you're wondering: Yes, I am fine. I am mentally stable, so please don't be concerned with what I wrote!

It's quite long, has not been edited, and is in a very very rough format. So apologies in advance!

Thanks y'all for being such wonderful people! Have a wonderful day!

- Telrao *throws muffins*

Today was Senior Skip Day and oh boy what a day it was! Yes, my car may have broken down and started leaking motor oil when we were six minutes away from the beach but that's how it goes sometimes!

Also I got Promposed to right after we got home from the beach!! I'm really happy about it! She did it in Morse code (which we learned together) and it was really cute. I was planning on promposing to her, but she beat me to it. But just you wait until Prom! I'll really step things up for her!

Also also yeah I was going to make a status update about London from my trip last week but I never got around to it. Long story short I got to play piano at the top of tallest building there, did a Sherlock Holmes Escape room, toured the Harry Potter studios, saw some beautiful architecture, and just had a blast with my family. Last vacation before I'm outta here :/

Life is good.

I HAVE FINISHED TRESS AND IT IS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WORDS DON'T WORK. @Telrao, you words good. come words for me. lots of being impressed and happy please!

I HAVE FINISHED TRESS AND IT IS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WORDS DON'T WORK. @Telrao, you words good. come words for me. lots of being impressed and happy please!

I have just discovered that I am not following you. I quickly remedied this flaw  

@Ranryu found a rabbit burrow with two dead baby bunnies out side. After realizing that there were five alive bunnies in the burrow, we put them in a chocolate box and went out to a nature-y area in our neighborhood and dug them a new grave burrow.  Them we just left them there. To die. We could not have taken care of them, and they were probably sick, but I still feel really bad. I got emotionally attached to them too fast. I'm going to go feel sad now. Bye.

I hope the image works.

This is what came up when I put “Cosmere, the musical!” Into chat GPT.

I’d watch it 

 

Hey y'all! Random stuff cuz why not

I sang backup vocals for the Easter Sunday service this morning - and I didn't get nervous! Like, at all! So that was awesome  

Finished book two of the Wheel of Time! The Great Hunt was SO GOOOD but not as good as The Eye of the World... but I've just started The Dragon Reborn, so we'll see what happens  Also panicked because I realised the books I borrowed aren't gonna last the two weeks of holidays so... haaaaaa

Vitamin Sea by Owl City makes me so happy! Here it is:

(Owl City is my therapy I LOVE his music)

I also baked some Resurrection scrolls! They were very yummy... and also had some apple pie... mmmm

ANYWAY

Happy Easter, everybody! He is Risen!

- Telrao *throws hot cross buns*

Wikihow is still going strong as my favorite website.

 

Wikihow is still going strong as my favorite website.

 

Wikihow is still going strong as my favorite website.

 

I'm so sorry

I wrote fanfiction

Save me

(okay, it's not the worst thing in the world. But... it's weird)

Does anyone have advice on how to be comforting to someone else?

I have this friend, and her little brother is really difficult. Drug-smuggling-in-jail-at-16-suicidal-abusive difficult. And yesterday he just up and left. He hasn't returned. 

How do I help my friend with her anxiety?

HELLO HUMANS

Guess whaaaaaaaatttt

I FINISHED THE EYE OF THE WORLD

AND OH MY STORMS IT IS SO GOOD yagidsbyuahjknadshjabns

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I also started The Great Hunt last night and BRO YES

Alsoalsoalsoalso

I PICKED UP A FROG THIS MORNING SO YEAH!

ONE OF THESE BOIS

IT WAS LIKE SLIMY AND SOFT AND SO ADORABLE AHH!!

Have a wonderful day/night/whatevertime!

- Telrao

*throws muffins*