<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Samantha Atkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sjatkins@mac.com">sjatkins@mac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Yummy! The answer to whether to stay where the information flow is hyper fast and rich or go off exploring? Take your entire planet with you. I saw a paper by some mad scientist that I don't have immediately at hand. Its premise was that it might be possible to introduce just the right size black hole into a planet in a way where the energy released by infalling matter just balanced the gravitational force of the hole with enough internal heat generated to keep the planet reasonably warm at the surface without a nearby star. Of course if you have enough uber-energy of any kind you should be able to keep many parts of the surface or interior comfortable enough for life. Of course if your civilization has gone post-biological this may not be as much of an issue.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
<br></font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I imagine the first response to "blackhole the earth" would be something like, "You want to what?!?"</div></div>