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Today you learn how we could look for advanced civilizations that are using tiny black holes as fuel.

How fast you'd have to go if you wanted to run on top of

water on the moon? And which countries gave us the most world famous magicians,

pirates, and astronauts? Let's satisfy some curiosity. There's been a lot of great research lately into alternative energy sources.

But one energy source that might be even more awesome than solar and nuclear energy

is black hole energy. and one mathematician suggests that we might be able to find

extra-terrestrials by looking for spacecraft that are powered by tiny artificial black holes.

As reported by universe today this idea comes tiny artificial black holes.

As reported by Universe Today, this idea comes from a pair of papers published by researchers

at Kansas State University.

In 2009, a mathematician named Louis Crane co-authored a paper about the possibility of black hole

spacecraft. Basically, the paper outlined the possibility of using Hawking radiation from an artificial

black hole to power a spacecraft and concluded it was at the edge of

possibility, assuming they could get past the effects of quantum gravity, which are currently

unknown. Here's how Dr. Crane explained it in an email to universe today.

Quote, an advanced civilization would want to harness a microscopic black hole because it could

throw in matter and get out energy.

It would be the ultimate energy source. In particular it could propel a

Starship large enough to be shielded to relativistic velocities. None of the

Starship concepts NASA studied turned out to be viable. It might be the only possibility."

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