Colonizing Black Holes

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Isaac Arthur

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

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🗓️ 23 May 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Black Holes are amongst the most destructive things in the Universe, but it may be that properly utilized, they might be the best places in the galaxy to live around in the future, and possibly right here in our own solar system too. Check out the Paperclip Maximizer: https://watchnebula.com/isaacarthur Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ 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: Outward Bound: Colonizng Black Holes Episode 187, Season 5 E21 Written by: Isaac Arthur Jerry Guern Editors: Darius Said Keith Blockus Matthew Acker S. Kopperud Cover Art: Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier Graphics by: Bryan Versteeg http://spacehabs.com Fishy Tree https://www.deviantart.com/fishytree/ Jeremy Jozwik https://www.artstation.com/zeuxis_of_losdiajana Justin Dixon Ken York https://www.facebook.com/YDVisual/ Sergio Botero https://www.artstation.com/sboterod?fref=gc Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur Music Manager: Luca DeRosa - [email protected] Music: Markus Junnikkala, "Hail the Victorious Dead" https://www.markusjunnikkala.com/ Aerium, "The islands moved while I was asleep" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRnUJY3l5vIJFGsY3XvW4dQ Lombus, "Amino" https://lombus.bandcamp.com Stellardrone, "Ultra Deep Field" https://stellardrone.bandcamp.com Kai Engel, "Endless Story About Sun and Moon" https://www.kai-engel.com/ Evan King, "Singularity" https://evanking.bandcamp.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,
0:05.0	we're asking the reason alien civilizations might be rare is because most aliens are huge.
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0:15.0	out go.nebola.tv slash Isaac Arthur and use my code, Isaac Arthur.
0:20.0	This episode is sponsored by Brilliant.
0:23.9	Black holes are amongst the most dangerous and destructive things in the universe.
0:29.4	So let's go live on one. So today we return to the Outward Bound series to look at colonizing black holes.
0:53.6	We talk fairly often on this channel about advanced civilizations using black holes in various
0:59.1	ways, but we're usually talking either about artificial micro black holes that emit
1:04.8	hocking radiation and need to be fed constantly so they don't disappear, or about civilizations so far forward in time
1:12.8	that Blackhors would be prevalent, while what we call stars would be ancient history, part
1:18.4	of a brief bright era when the universe was still settling down from the Big Bang.
1:24.3	But today we are going to talk about how and why black holes might become the preferred
1:29.3	place for much nearer future civilizations to colonize, even while stars still burn and
1:36.3	uninhabited planets are abundant.
1:39.3	In a lot of science fiction, a ship stumbling across a black hole is caused for panic, but in reality the
1:46.1	crew would probably be popping the corks on the champagne because that's some very valuable
1:51.4	real estate they just found.
1:54.2	To understand why, let's talk briefly about what our descendants would be looking for
1:59.0	in a place to colonize.
2:01.6	Stars are useful fundamentally as power sources.
2:05.6	Earth is basically self-sufficient, except for the light we receive from the Sun, which keeps
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