Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!decwrl!wasser@9227.DEC (John A. Wasser) From: wasser@9227.DEC (John A. Wasser) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Frozen Stars Message-ID: <3685@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 09:25:37 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.3685 Posted: Fri Aug 16 09:25:37 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 01:25:47 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: Digital Equipment Corp., Palo Alto, CA Lines: 14 >Incidentally, Russians refer to black holes as "frozen" stars because >...the star appears to freeze up... > - Paul M. Koloc Another reason the Soviets call them Frozen Stars is that "Black Hole" is a gross obscenity in Russian. If it wasn't they would probably call them Black Holes like the rest of the world. -John A. Wasser ARPAnet: WASSER%VIKING.DEC@decwrl.ARPA Usenet: {allegra,Shasta,decvax}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-viking!wasser Easynet: VIKING::WASSER