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From Sean Carroll’s An Introduction to General Relativity, Spacetime and Geometry.

A space monkey is happily orbiting a Swarzchild black hole in a circular geodesic orbit. An evil baboon, far from the black hole, tries to send the monkey to its death inside the black hole by dropping a coconut radially toward the black hole, knowing that the monkey can’t resist catching the falling coconut. Given the monkey’s mass and initial orbial radius and the mass of the coconut, explain how you would go about solving the problem (but do not do the calculation). What are the possible fates for our intrepid space monkey?

Signed a lease! It’s basically across the street from my old place, and therefore I’m now technically in brooklyn! It’s an apartment, not a loft, but it’s a really, really nice apartment. It’s a good deal. We’ve got keys to the front door, and in a few days they’ll be done remodeling, so we can officially have a life again.

I already sent an email to a million people, so this post is really superfluous.

Fun times are here.