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That explains a lot (mander.xyz)
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[–] 22 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Pretty sure any black hole we create would evaporate from hawking radiation before it could be used for anything outside of research.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    If we could make Jupiter a black hole, would that be stable enough to not radiate away? Other big body we have access to is the sun and I feel we would suffer more side effects of turning that into a hole compared to Jupiter

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Should we be making any of these things a black hole?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Replacing Jupiter with an equally massive black hole shouldn’t make a difference. We’d only have one bright dot less in the night sky.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Except squid aliens will develop a way to move it and annihilate several planets on its way to Super Earth. RIP Angel's Venture.

    (This is currently happening in helldivers 2, we turned a super bug infested planet into a black hole and now the illuminate are steering it towards earth)

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The sun is debatable, since I think we already use it's photons both for photosynthesis in plants, heat (although we could get infrared warmth from the hole) as well as other benefits

    Why shouldn't we holify Jupiter? It would be a testament to our technological progress as well as helping us study black holes "close"ish by rather than in labs

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Sometimes our technological progress makes us do things we think are a good idea at the time. Then like years, decades, centuries, millennia later we realize it was not such a good idea after all.

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  • [+] -6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'm pretty sure if we made Jupiter a black hole we'd throw off our orbit and have much bigger problems.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Wouldn't a Jupiter-mass black hole have the same gravitational effects as Jupiter and absolutely nothing would be affected?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago*

    If you were very, very close to it, not exactly, since Jupiter's mass is more spread out, making the gravitational pull slightly weaker at close range. But for practical purposes yeah nothing would change for us other than space debris being flung around it instead of hitting it.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Black holes aren't vacuums, nothing would change if the mass was equivalent

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