From: jaimie@sometimes.sessile.org   
      
   On Sun, 4 Dec 2016 02:14:32 -0800 (PST), eripe    
   wrote:   
      
   >So I should think that if your spaceship is massive enough and has a correct   
   trajectory, you should be able to 'go fishing'; slingshot around a black hole   
   where you dip the pole under the event horizon, and pull it out again.   
      
   No. The definition of the event horizon is describing where you *cannot*   
   do that, as there are no spacelike paths leading back to outside the   
   horizon.   
      
   	Cheers - Jaimie   
   --   
   "You know how dumb the average person is?  Well, by definition,   
    half of 'em are dumber than THAT."         - J.R. "Bob" Dobbs   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)