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Some other uses of black holes: - space propulsion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAocMzxPjjo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAocMzxPjjo - colonization and
by ajuc 4y ago
Some other uses of black holes:
- space propulsion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAocMzxPjjo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAocMzxPjjo
- colonization and energy source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qam5BkXIEhQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qam5BkXIEhQ
- weapons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTMxO1nJaA4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTMxO1nJaA4
I highly recommend the whole channel.
- jacquesc 4y agoAlso a great (short) one by Kurtzgesagt https://youtu.be/ulCdoCfw-bY https://youtu.be/ulCdoCfw-bY
- hammock 4y agoWe could throw garbage or nuclear waste into it
- restalis 4y agoFrom the article: "if the black hole’s temperature is high, the radiation is composed of all elementary particles, photons, electrons, quarks, and so on. It’s really unhealthy. And a small black hole converts energy into a lot of those particles very quickly. This means a small black hole is black basically a bomb." The nuclear waste thrown into it may be much cleaner than the stuff it will throw back out.
- sliken 4y agoTrue, but that's tunable, the bigger it is the less comes out.
- ben_w 4y agoThanks for reminding me I needed to blog about why I think Hawking radiation drives aren’t really as good as they look: https://kitsunesoftware.wordpress.com/2022/05/14/no-a-black-hole-cant-be-used-as-a-rocket/ https://kitsunesoftware.wordpress.com/2022/05/14/no-a-black-... (I agree that Isaac Arthur’s channel is good).
- karelpeeters 4y agoThe paper you linked, https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.1803 https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.1803, is also a fun read.