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[–] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 34 points 1 day ago (22 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?

[–] truthfultemporarily@feddit.org 8 points 1 day ago (2 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.

[–] moonlight@fedia.io 6 points 1 day ago

What about traveling slightly off axis? Could even tack back and forth.

[–] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Isn't that a solvable problem though? Overshoot the target planet by just enough, that it isn't in the hemisphere of the warp bubble pointed towards the direction of motion.

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