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Re: mehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehm
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There are some downsides, though - your generator can go critical in one of two basic ways: underfeeding (energy output is proportional to an inverse of the black hole's mass, and it loses mass as it outputs energy - if you don't feed it enough, it explodes in a very big burst of some very hard radiation)
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Not just proportional to 1/ mass, but to 1/mass^4 IIRC.
Dropping the mass by 10% increases power by about 52%
Half the mass -> 16 times the output.
So, yeah, quite unstable a reactor.
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Re: XLVII XLVIII XLIX L LI LII LIII LIV LV LVI LVI
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September 22nd, 2005, 10:01 AM
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Re: TopicTopicTopicTopicTopicTopicMushroomMushroom
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Not just proportional to 1/ mass, but to 1/mass^4 IIRC.
Dropping the mass by 10% increases power by about 52%
Half the mass -> 16 times the output.
So, yeah, quite unstable a reactor.
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Hence, "an inverse" rather than "the inverse" in the earlier post - couldn't quite remember the power, but knew it was > 1.
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Re: TopicTopicTopicTopicTopicTopicMushroomMushroom
mass^4? Wouldn't that possibly imply that gravity is four-dimensional?
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Much as like the idea of black hole reactor, we are getting somewhat sidetracked from the usual insanity round here.
This is a good thing, keep it up.
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Science is weirder than fiction. Remember that.
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Well I asked the purple fruitbat in my closet about that, he replied that the influence of cats on the development of external combustion was much under-rated.
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Hah! They stole that idea! And guess who they stole it from?!
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Re: mehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehm
Yusuf Islam?
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Recall that in the days when start trek was first shot, computers were as large as a house and only performed calculations roughly equivalent to our calculators of today.
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