The Million Year Machine
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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Using Micro Black Hole Power Supplies for Long Long Ships
Black holes are amazing power supplies for long lange ships too. You can build that black hole to your expected mission time line, and then use something like a lazer highway to push you up to cruising speed. It would be an interesting conundum if civilizations using such micro black hores intentionally made them bigger, weaker and er lived than the mission required - but fed the black horde to sustain it. And presumably it depends on how easily they can feed one, which is counter intuitively difficult for tiny ones,. Since they would often be tinier than the atoms you were trying to feed them.
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