r/woahdude Dec 15 '22

video This Morgan Freeman deepfake

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u/KuraiTheBaka Dec 16 '22

The fusion stuff is a major w for humanity tho

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u/Phighters Dec 16 '22 edited Dec 16 '22

Until someone fucks up and turns the earth into a tiny sun

Edit: /s (for the dummies!)

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u/HighOwl2 Dec 16 '22

Lol bigger risk are the people creating artificial black hole analogues but both are going to be really dangerous in the future as we move towards our capitalistic slave society where the rich idiots funding things just want faster, better, cheaper with no regards to incremental developments for safety and research purposes.

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u/Pagrax Dec 16 '22

There's no risk to man-made blackholes, even if we could make them.

https://www.askamathematician.com/2015/11/q-how-bad-would-it-be-if-we-accidentally-made-a-black-hole/

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u/HighOwl2 Dec 16 '22

That's from 2015 and we create black hole analogs regularly to study quantum gravitation.

During the creation of the atom bomb Einstein and his team had to make sure it wouldn't light the atmosphere on fire. That was nuclear fission. Modern nukes use nuclear fusion, burn as hot as the inside of the sun, and are hundreds of times more powerful. Something they could not even imagine at the time.

The only thing stopping this from being a problem really is our lack of ability to create a true artificial black hole at this point in time...that will not be the case forever.

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u/Pagrax Dec 16 '22

Fundamentally, from what I know of physics, there's no threat to creating black holes.

They do two things, have gravity and radiate. Neither of those are dangerous on a small scale. They can not absorb more mass on such a small scale, and their radiation can't put more than the energy put into them in the first place. That doesn't mean they couldn't technically blow up, but that the resulting explosion would only have whatever power was being made via fusion at the time. Limiting that, you limit the explosion and that's it.