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01 / prediction
“In particular, the force gets so strong when you try to get within this radius, that in fact you cannot slowly lower the brick down towards the surface because you’ve formed a black hole.”
02 / prediction
“You’d find that your feet are being attracted to the black hole much more vigorously than your head is, because they’re closer, and you end up getting stretched.”
03 / prediction
“I don’t know that we’re going to be able to keep up entirely, but I think we’ll keep up much better than pessimistic forecasts would suggest.”
04 / prediction
“If we can make them long enough and pure enough, then they will be strong enough that we will be able to build a space elevator around Earth in, you know, maybe sometime in the next century, that you only need a couple of doublings of the thickness of the carbon nanotubes along its entire length.”
05 / prediction
“A solar mass black hole, if you don't help it, will take about 10 to the 55 times the current age of the universe to have given out all its energy back into the universe.”