And I Must Scream/Real Life: Difference between revisions

* A girl with a genetic defect involving deletion of the "language gene" FOXP2 and several adjacent genes has been [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16470794/ described in the literature]. At the time she came to medical attention, she could neither speak, nor cough, sneeze or laugh spontaneously.

* This trope is what is expected to happen to anyone who crosses the event horizon of a black hole. Given that the black hole is massive enough, its gravity at the event horizon is not lethal, and a human could theoretically cross it while staying alive. (This is because of the special mass-radius relationship of black holes; as seen from the falling observer, tidal forces get ''weaker'' as the black hole's mass increases due to the linear expansion of the event horizon with mass.) So what are the consequences of passing through the event horizon alive? You are ''completely and irreversibly cut off'' from any communication with the world outside the black hole. And of course, you will keep falling towards the center and ultimately [[Cruel and Unusual Death|get "spaghettified"]] some time later.

 

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