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• jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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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    • pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • Droechai@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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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    • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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• psud@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If Jupiter was compressed to a black hole it would be 2.8 metres across and would last longer than the Sun

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• spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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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  • mbfalzar@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • TheKracken@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yup

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    • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      My point was more that we’d probably have to increase the mass to be able to make it a black hole, as we don’t have the ability to compress it to a singularity.

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  • Soulg@ani.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes, but you’d more than likely have to increase the mass of Jupiter to make it a black hole.

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      • Soulg@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That wasn’t part of the hypothetical though

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• someacnt@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Scientists care too much about if we could, they forget to ask if we should.

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