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- mkriss5681, on 11/04/2009, -1/+284Or could make an awesome haunted ghost space ship. Digg up for the Event Horizon picture.
- Airforcefalco, on 11/05/2009, -0/+239Nothing could go wrong with this idea.
- Cobdogle, on 11/05/2009, -0/+201Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see.
- Meatkin, on 11/05/2009, -5/+176Not so keen on the name Black Hole Engine. I prefer 'Singularity Drive'. Your heard it here first, Digg.
- KayRaid, on 11/05/2009, -1/+158The engines don't move the ship at all. The ship stays where it is and the engines move the universe around it!
- WoundedCow, on 11/05/2009, -1/+136The Romulans were doing it years ago.
- DAVENP0RT, on 11/05/2009, -1/+135Aliens are watching us and saying, "*****, guys, you don't have this down yet?"
- asgardshill, on 11/05/2009, -0/+89So what you're trying to say is, this won't help my frequent flyer miles at all.
- manicleek, on 11/05/2009, -1/+66Nobody with a reasonable amount of intelligence thought the LHC was a bad idea
- SummerofGeorge, on 11/05/2009, -1/+64Fooking prawns!
- Azathothh, on 11/05/2009, -3/+60***** you prawns!
- Veni_Vidi_Vici, on 11/05/2009, -1/+50No, I'm pretty sure I've heard it in about a dozen sci-fi features first.
- captininsanity, on 11/05/2009, -0/+35"Another issue is what to do with the black hole when it reaches the end of its life span, as they tend to explode."
The problem is someone in the military just got a great idea... - MistySteele, on 11/05/2009, -0/+29easy there kids, I think he was being sarcastic
- Renork, on 11/05/2009, -0/+281: Lots of options, the most likely from a couple seconds of thought would be to utilize a space elevator or some other future method of cheaply(relatively) pushing large quantities of material into geosynchronous orbit. Then build the massive solar array in earth obit then strap some current gen propulsion system to it and fly it out to the desired distance/orbit of the sun.
2: Who says we would only take one black hole and one only the size required to get us there? This makes zero sense for a 2 way mission. Again, there are multiple options here, including building a massive solar array into the design of the interstellar space ship. However, the most likely work around would be to bring multiple black hole power sources of varying size and power based on the mission requirements. As the article says, some burn out quick but are powerful, some are longer lasting but not quite as powerful. I see no reason that you could not work out exactly the size black holes needed for one to make it all the way to your destination and another to last from the start of the mission through the trip home, the return trip would be somewhat slower (due to the longer lasting and less powerful black hole than the way to the destination but I see no reason why this would not work. Further, if mission duration is not all that much of an issue to begin with you could just work out the size required for one massive black hole to sustain the ship for the duration of the entire mission and jettison it on the way home at the required distance.
3: You eject the black hole at that distance and allow momentum to carry you the remaining distance.
4: We calculate the requirements and then using the techniques briefly mentioned in response 1 we build the ship to the needed specifications in geosynchronous orbit.
You seem to lack imagination. - vnfedotov, on 11/05/2009, -10/+36And you've thought LHC was bad idea.
- smmakira, on 11/05/2009, -1/+26It beats nuclear power from what I can tell...except that whole getting sucked in and torn to pieces thing. ;P
- mrskaggs, on 11/05/2009, -1/+23Umm...Event Horizon.
- centran, on 11/06/2009, -0/+21I think the Aliens are more saying, "Black Holes! <laugh> wait... they are serious? maybe we should say something before they do something stupid?"
- nurbsenvi, on 11/05/2009, -0/+21Interweb is so full of obscure references...
and I like it. - nurbsenvi, on 11/05/2009, -2/+23nah Texas is just an ass hole.
- rusty0101, on 11/05/2009, -0/+21While the write up from a technical perspective is nice, the presentation by Ian Douglas in his Inheritance Trilogy moves along nicely.
I will note though that there seems to be some confusion over how much energy a micro-black hole could liberate. From the analysis done regarding micro-black holes as a result of fears regarding their creation at the Large Hadron collider, the fact that at the quantum level there is substantial energy available does not result in substantial energy being liberated by the black hole. I'm afraid that the only way we will know is going to be actually creating them and working with the result. - DeadAsDillinger, on 11/05/2009, -0/+21It seems to me that I saw this on an episode of Futurama.
"It came to me in a dream, and I forgot it in another dream." - strongsad, on 11/05/2009, -0/+20seems safe to me... then again, I lob dynamite sticks out to the rear of my car for impulse.
- linksus, on 11/05/2009, -0/+20It least when your black hole generator has a leak, An engineer will be on site fairly sharpish
- takeo1775, on 11/05/2009, -1/+20Fook Fook Fook!
- sierrabravo, on 11/05/2009, -0/+19"Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see... She tore a hole in our universe, a gateway to another dimension. A dimension of pure chaos. Pure... evil. When she crossed over, she was just a ship. But when she came back... she was alive! Look at her, Miller. Isn't she beautiful?"
- PeaceShot, on 11/05/2009, -4/+22"The lifespan of the black hole could be extended by feeding it mass, too." So we can 'last longer' by giving it some of the Captain's private porn collection?
- tidu, on 11/05/2009, -0/+18you mean frequent flyer lightyears
- jjmdirector, on 11/05/2009, -0/+17That ***** movie ROCKED!!!!
- Xfer00, on 11/05/2009, -0/+17It would really be closer to imploding than exploding. And even then, more like being crushed into a single point than a true implosion..
I suppose my point is that this wouldn't blow up the Earth. - InactiveUser, on 11/05/2009, -1/+18lol, do some research on that? people spend their first 2 years in Uni going "what"?
- AaronPDX, on 11/05/2009, -1/+18I sorta feel like this post should start with, "Good news, everybody!"
- DeLeon, on 11/05/2009, -3/+20Kansas State is a black hole.
- fatherdoom, on 11/05/2009, -1/+18Dont you fookin look at me!
- TekTrixter, on 11/05/2009, -0/+16I believe that their point was that none of those are outside what we are capable of doing with either our current, or foreseeable, technology
- BoneheadFarker, on 11/05/2009, -0/+15Romulan Warbirds are powered by a confined singularity. I believe this was first mentioned in the TNG episode "Face of the Enemy", but it's been a while since I've watched the whole series.
- metaldwarf, on 11/05/2009, -1/+16I say we name the first ship the USS Chernobyl
- jotate, on 11/05/2009, -0/+14You are the only person of the six replies thus far that appears to have gotten the reference. You win. The rest of these bastards disappoint me.
- nheron87, on 11/05/2009, -0/+13That movie absolutely terrified me, granted i was 8 when i saw it...
- PlumCantaloupe, on 11/05/2009, -0/+13I went to a lecture by the soon-to-be-director of the LHC and someone, of course, mentioned asked about the "black hole destroying the Earth theorem". Apparently the energy hitting out atmosphere at all times is still magnitudes greater than the energy that will be created within the LHC. Basically, if what we were creating in the LHC was a problem, then this Earth would not have existed to have built it.
Maybe I heard wrong?
seems this idea is re-iterated here: http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/en/LHC/Safety-en. ...
"The world will not come to an end when the LHC turns on. The LHC is absolutely safe. ... Collisions releasing greater energy occur millions of times a day in the earth's atmosphere and nothing terrible happens." - Stephen Hawking - omgwolf, on 11/05/2009, -0/+12Ahhhh 1997
- quentinp, on 11/05/2009, -0/+12I understand using it as an energy source, what I don't understand is how you get something with that much mass (plus your starship) moving quickly enough. Build a bigger hole for more energy, but have more mass to move right? Plus as you try and get faster you need more energy as you approach c right?
- MaTT2011, on 11/06/2009, -0/+12How is it that movie doesnt get more credit? I dont think i was so scared of a sci-fi movie since the original "Alien". Hell, everything about Event Horizon was far scarier than "Alien", there was just ONE of those things in the ship whereas the entire ship Event Horizon was headed to friggin HELL.
"Save yourself... from hell." sooooo creepy. - Phearce, on 11/05/2009, -1/+12Wait, wait.
1. Purchase spent black-hole drive
2. Drop near the Pacific garbage island
3. ********
4. Profit! - yocouchdigga, on 11/05/2009, -0/+11Sam Neil is the *****.
- Joe_rigby, on 11/05/2009, -0/+11Fook the fooking fookers.
- cdw1212, on 11/05/2009, -0/+11That is good news ...
- boerema, on 11/05/2009, -0/+11God, I hope not. There comes a point when using weapons that destroy the whole planet in one shot...when you're on it...should make the idea sour.
- thecoolestguy, on 11/05/2009, -0/+11Don't worry, we'll deal with that later. Any way, it's not like some lifeless gas giant is going to care if it has half its mass blown off.
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