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Black holes are good star ship engines because they turn everything into Hawking radiation.
Can you elaborate? Why is HR useful for starship engines?
Antimatter has been transported for the first time
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#102Sounds like the start of research ending in antimatter bombs.
The energy used in creating and containing this antimatter was many orders of magnitude greater than it would release on collision with matter.
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#103antimatter is not what the average person thinks it is from science-fiction
https://www.youtube.com/@pbsspacetime/search?query=antimatte...
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#104I was once transporting antipasti and no one wrote HN post about it :(
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#105From a layman's point of view antimatter seems like an ideal spacecraft fuel. It's as energy dense as E = mc^2 allows, and if you have infrastructure to make it, the only input you need to produce it is electricity. Being able to transport it seems like an important piece of that puzzle. Production and storage would need to be scaled by many orders of magnitude, but that's merely an engineering problem...right?
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#106Setting the plot for Angels and Demons... :D Mirror: https://archive.ph/JkeMp
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#109Angels & Demons anyone?
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#110If containment was to fail, it the total energy released would have been approximately 2.766 * 10 ^ -8 J, so it wasn't particularly dangerous
It would be trivial to reroute power from the secondary systems to the forward shields anyway