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The Megastructure Compendium

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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Interstellar Lazer Highways

Long lines of traffic moving on lines between the various black holes in our galaxy, forming a highway network. Black holes make excellent power plants for powering enormous lazers to serve as pushing beams to accelerate or decelerate spaceships. This technique may also be adapted for intergalactic travel, though it is not thought to be possible to achieve a shift velocity with a lamense factor much above 100. We time moves at a hundredth its normal speed for those on board and would represent a strong drag force.

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