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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 day ago (48 children)

Us developing an actual black hole would be one of the best things humanity has ever done. It would kinda be like inventing techniques to make fire.

We could throw shit around the orbit of the black hole and get fusion. Not just deuterium fusion! Even proton proton fusion. Our energy needs would be solved practically forever.

We could conduct a crazy amount of experiments on the black hole, see quantum effects of gravity and whatnot.

Maybe we could build one of em Alcubierre drives that don't need exotic matter?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Unfortunately an Alcubierre drive dumps a shitload of high energy radiation in the direction of travel when it stops. We would sterilize every world we get to.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So why not just stop beside the planet you are aiming for?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Me travelling calmly through space when a rogue wave of high energy radiation blasts me from some rando warping 2974738 years ago

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wouldn't that be a non-issue? The radiation is going to be spreading out in a cone, not a focused laser beam. It should dissipate down to a level that a spaceships normal radiation shielding would already need to be able to handle pretty quickly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

Hmm, I think you're right

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