Weaponizing Black Holes

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Isaac Arthur

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

4.8 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Black Holes are often considered the most dangerous objects in the Universe, especially in science fiction, and today we'll look at how these may be used as weapons in future warfare. Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/zTMxO1nJaA4 Start listening with a 30-day Audible trial and your first audiobook plus two Audible Originals are free. Visit http://www.audible.com/isaac or text "ISAAC" to 500-500. 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: Weaponizing Black Holes Episode 190, Season 5 E24 Written by: Isaac Arthur Editors: Darius Said Jerry Guern Mark Warburton Olly Epsom Cover Art: Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier Graphics by: Jeremy Jozwik https://www.artstation.com/zeuxis_of_losdiajana Justin Dixon Ken York https://www.facebook.com/YDVisual/ LegionTech Studios https://hades9.com Luca DeRosa Mihail Yordanov Sergio Botero https://www.artstation.com/sboterod?fref=gc Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur Music Manager: Luca DeRosa - [email protected] Music: Paradox Interactive, "The Titan" https://www.paradoxplaza.com Reign Pagaran, "Distant Voyager" Paradox Interactive. "The Imperial Fleet" Chris Zabriskie, "The Temperature of the Air on the Bow of the Kaleetan" http://chriszabriskie.com Marcus Warner, "Ends of the Earth" https://marcuswarnermusic.bandcamp.com Aerium, "Sky Library" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRnUJY3l5vIJFGsY3XvW4dQ 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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0:20.4	This episode is sponsored by Audible.
0:23.7	Black holes are the most terrifying and destructive things in the universe, so they would
0:28.9	make truly dreadful weapons.
0:31.3	Or would they?
0:44.0	So today we are returning to the topic of Black Holes. In our previous discussion in Black Hole ships and colonizing Black Holes, we challenged
0:49.4	the notion that they are only good for destruction and showed how they could make for amazing spaceships
0:55.2	to rapidly take us out to explore new worlds and how they could help us build and power new worlds.
1:02.7	Yet while they have great value in those regards, they are indeed capable of immense destruction.
1:08.8	A weapon can be used for good, not just ill, and as usual, we'll
1:13.5	mostly bypass the ethical aspects of the technology under discussion, but we will note
1:18.9	some valuable defensive rules they might play, and also some adaptations of the basic technology
1:25.1	that might make them even better if we ever truly master gravity manipulation.
1:30.3	In those previous episodes on black holes as ship drives and power sources, we focused
1:36.3	on black holes of sizes that occur in nature, but today we'll be looking at the entire
1:42.3	range, from the tiny artificial cougarblitz variety
1:45.1	that emits lots of hockey radiation, to monsters far more massive than anything that exists
1:50.5	in nature, as far as we know.
1:53.5	We have essentially two different types of black holes of note.
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