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Ditto on Tim's comment about sensors. Trek's always always always had FTL sensors. They'd never detect anything at warp until they were on top of it if they didn't.
Ditto on Grocka's comment about bourbon being a poor last drink.
And, if I may add something new to the discussion, there was an enormous whingefest over at TrekBBS where people said that Reed's finger, let alone the mashed potatoes, would be sucked out the hole. Well, somebody with a basic understanding of physics went to their lab and attempted to shut them up. They rigged up an apparatus with a vacuum pump, cooled a thin piece of metal with liquid nitrogen to 30 K and punched a 1 mm wide hole in it. Mashed potatoes formed a clean rock-solid seal for 20 minutes. Considering the shuttlepod's hull was most likely colder, thicker and with a smaller hole, its clear the science was bang-on.
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Depending on the size of the hole I imagine they might get a blister, but if the microsingularities are truly microscopic, any blister would presumably be pretty tiny too. Hey do any physics buffs here know just how massive a black hole would have to be to maintain an event horizon approximately 1 �m wide?
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Assuming the equation I found was correct, and that I did my math correctly, a black hole w/ an event horizon of diameter 10-6m would have a mass of about 1 123 659 887 556kg (a bit over one trillion kilograms).
While that sounds like a lot, it's pretty small. To put it in perspective, even the planet Pluto is more than 10 billion times as massive as the singularity of a one-micrometer-across event horizon.
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