Re: poly: speeding up a star's burn rate

From: Anders Sandberg <asa@nada.kth.se>
Date: Fri Jan 09 1998 - 01:52:56 PST

"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes:

> carl feynman writes:
> > Yes, but only slightly. Fusion releases a puny 1% of the original mass as
> > energy. Maybe one is better off not worrying about building stars, etc.
> > Just drain the universe down black holes.
>
> But then you don't get useful building materials...

Unless we can build something useful out of black holes.

There was an article recently in the xxx.lanl.gov preprint server
about using aligned galaxies as waveguides for gravitational
waves. Maybe we could make a very big gravitational computer? :-)

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