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The Skeptics Guide #814 - Feb 13 2021

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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The Death Star Super Laser Is a Better Number Than Hex Decillion

If we could make the Milky Way super massive black hole or personal generator using these numbers in this theory, we could run our world at current energy levels for a billion trillion trillion years. Can we use it to stop the sun from expanding and exploding? So that's the kind of energy we're talking about. I mean, sure, our energy needs are going to grow up, but who cares? That's a such a gargantuan amount of energy, but it's fascinating. It's interesting to think that it could happen in a hundred trillion years when there's no other sources of energy in the universe. And it's a very sad place, but it could be cool because you're

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