Re: A partial black hole?

Erik Max Francis <max@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> For any reasonably realistic black hole we can imagine today, though, it

> wouldn't work, as you say.  Note that when we're talking about tides 
> killing you near the singularity of a mundane stellar-massed 
> Schwarzschild black hole, we're really being kind:  The tides near the 
> _event horizon_, before you've even passed the point of no return, would

> be plenty fatal as it is. 

What about event horizons that don't have anything to do with 
singularities?