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[forsaken1111]

I do find the prospect of a gravity laser quite attractive.

[O.Wilde]

I do find the prospect of a gravity laser quite attractive.

Are you saying it draws you in?

[TheBiggerFish]

Guys, come on, the gravity of this situation means we really shouldn't be punning.

[Starver]

Guys, come on, the gravity of this situation means we really shouldn't be punning.

It's true that we have relatively little space or time for this warped sense of humour, generally speaking.

[chaotic skies]

Stop, guys. You're going to end up in a black hole of puns, and then the three won't ever escape the pun horizon.

[TheBiggerFish]

Stop hawking that theory, black holes go poof eventually.

[chaotic skies]

It's a very big poof, though. So big, I don't think you quite understand the gravity of one of those poofs.

[Amperzand]

To get us away from our critical mass of puns, it must be said that black holes go poof very, very slowly, unless they're very small, in which case they rapidly convert their mass to radiation, I.E, become nuclear fireballs.

[chaotic skies]

Why wait for a black hole to explode, when you can build a fusion reactor and simply fuse a bunch of uranium and then build a massive nuclear bomb? Then we can see a nuclear fireball, except this one is controlled and less likely to kill us all at once

[Shadowlord]

build a fusion reactor and simply fuse a bunch of uranium and then build a massive nuclear bomb?

wut

[Levi]

Hrm, I was going to post this in the Transhumanism thread, but it looks like it hasn't been used in over a year, and I couldn't find a more suitable thread...

http://waitbutwhy.com/2016/03/cryonics.html

An interesting analysis of Cyronics by a guy who started not knowing much about it.  (Disclaimer; I've been signed up for it for a while now).

Also interesting is his ridiculous amount of words written about Tesla & SpaceX, which is a fun read (part 1 of 4):  http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/05/elon-musk-the-worlds-raddest-man.html

[Amperzand]

Why wait for a black hole to explode, when you can build a fusion reactor and simply fuse a bunch of uranium and then build a massive nuclear bomb? Then we can see a nuclear fireball, except this one is controlled and less likely to kill us all at once

not sure if joke

But in all seriousness, heavy elements actually consume energy when they fuse. That's what kills stars.

[Starver]

Why wait for a black hole to explode, when you can build a fusion reactor and simply fuse a bunch of uranium and then build a massive nuclear bomb? Then we can see a nuclear fireball, except this one is controlled and less likely to kill us all at once

not sure if joke

But in all seriousness, heavy elements actually consume energy when they fuse. That's what kills stars.

If both serious and knowledgable,  I was assuming the creation of something ₁₈₄Uoq-ish, by endoenergetic fusion, hopefully not landing on an Island Of Stability and getting a very unstable atom practically a.critical mass in practically homeopathic concentrations and amounts...

(But I didn't feel the need to demonstrate my benefit of the doubt, at the time...)

[Amperzand]

Ah. See, that makes more sense.

[Max™]

Maybe it was related to this:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.02762
Full text:
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.02762.pdf
I found it via searching for "graviton laser", since "gravity laser" gave back too many irrelevant hits.

Therefore the denominator in Eqn.(22) can in principle be made arbitrarily small, giving a corresponding enhancement of the probability of spontaneous emission. In general, for levels separated by gravitons of energies in the deep infrared limit, there is no suppression.
Observing and controlling stimulated amplification of gravitons would be of unimaginable importance.

So ...holy shit, Baxter was right, Starbreakers would glow a deep cherry red?

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