Black Hole Ships

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Isaac Arthur

Science, Futurism, Sci Fi, Future, Scifi, Technology, Space, Engineering

4.8 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Black Holes are often considered the greatest dangers to spaceships in science fiction, but they may turn out to be the perfect power source for future spaceships. Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/oAocMzxPjjo Sign up with Skillshare for 2 months of Free classes: https://skl.sh/isaacarthur10 Check out PBS Spacetime's episode on Hawking Radiation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPKj0YnKANw Toth's Black Hole Calculator: https://www.vttoth.com/CMS/physics-notes/311-hawking-radiation-calculator Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur SFIA Merchandise available: https://www.signil.com/sfia/ Social Media: Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1583992725237264/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/IsaacArthur/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Isaac_A_Arthur on Twitter and RT our future content. SFIA Discord Server: https://discord.gg/53GAShE Credits: Generation Ships: Black Hole Ships Episode 184, Season 5 E18 Written by: Isaac Arthur Editors: Darius Said Keith Blockus Matthew Acker Mark Warburton Cover Art: Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier Graphics by: Fishy Tree https://www.deviantart.com/fishytree/ Jarred Eagley Jeremy Jozwik https://www.artstation.com/zeuxis_of_losdiajana Justin Dixon Kris Holland (Mafic Studios) www.maficstudios.com LegionTech Studios https://hades9.com Luca DeRosa Mihail Yordanov Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur Music Manager: Luca DeRosa - [email protected] Music: Markus Junnikkala, "Plotting a Course" https://www.markusjunnikkala.com/ Denny Shneidemesser, "Light & Darkness" https://soundcloud.com/denny-schneidemesser Miguel Johnson, "Darkness falls" https://soundcloud.com/migueljohnsonmjmusic Paradox Interactive, "Spatial Lullaby" https://www.paradoxplaza.com Chris Zabriskie, "Readers Do You Read" http://chriszabriskie.com Stellardrone, "Fermi Paradox" https://stellardrone.bandcamp.com Ross Bugden, "City Lights" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQKGLOK2FqmVgVwYferltKQ Markus Junnikkala, "We Roam the Stars" https://www.markusjunnikkala.com/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hello, SFIA audio listeners. In this month's Nebula exclusive, big alien theory,
0:05.2	we're asking the reason alien civilizations might be rare is because most aliens are huge.
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0:20.2	This episode is sponsored by Skillshare.
0:23.9	Black holes are often portrayed as scary, world-eating monsters, but what if they are actually
0:29.7	the batteries that will power our future among the stars?
0:47.3	Yeah. So today we are looking at how we can potentially use black holes in the future, and it's a topic we actually covered early in the channel, but I thought it deserved a second
0:51.6	visit and an expansion.
0:54.2	Black holes offer a lot of options for any civilization that can master them, and it's too
0:59.4	much for one episode, so we'll do a crossover series looking at their implications for some
1:05.5	of our other episodes over the next few months.
1:09.0	And today we will focus on their use in moving spaceships
1:12.3	in our Generation Ship series. We'll follow that up with an outward bound episode on colonizing
1:18.2	black holes and then a visit to our space warfare series with weaponizing black holes.
1:25.0	But we should start by talking about what black holes are and what they are not, and how
1:30.3	artificial ones might differ from natural ones and the various ways we can draw energy
1:35.4	from them.
1:37.4	Contrary to popular belief in fiction, black holes do not just suck material into them, indeed
1:43.0	a star that's turned into one has a lot less
1:45.5	gravitational force than it used to, and you could normally fly by one far closer than
1:50.9	you could fly by a star of the same mass without being harmed in the least bit.
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