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#355 – David Kipping: Alien Civilizations and Habitable Worlds

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Black Hole Propulsion

There's been a lot of exciting breakthroughs in detection and exploration of black holes. So all the garbage outside is actually might be the thing that holds a key to understanding what's going on inside. You could perhaps power a civilization by just throwing garbage into a black hole, right? Just throwing asteroids in how your civilization with as much energy as you really would ever possibly need. And you could also use them to accelerate away across the universe.

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