...or, more precisely: How to squeeze out a few more hours during which to contemplate the highs and lows of your life and what you could have done differently to avoid having it end in the middle of a damn black hole.

The analysis is usually done by thinking about a person who falls into the black hole starting from a state of rest at the event horizon....

But in general a person falling past the horizon won't have zero velocity to begin with. Then the situation is different — in fact it's worse. So firing the rocket for a short time can push the astronaut back on to the best-case scenario: the trajectory followed by free fall from rest.

What do you do if you have 5 minutes to live ? Boil an egg, It won't give you any more time, but it'll seem like it. Now they are telling us that there is the luxury of having enough time to boil an Ostrich egg.

Very usefull indeed. It seems like one of those things you say to yourself "oh I'll never need to know this" and then one day, what do you know!

hey pokkets! u cant boil an egg while being sucked into a black hole!!!