Isn’t that a solvable problem though? Overshoot the target planet by just enough, that it isn’t in the hemisphere of the warp bubble pointed towards the direction of motion.
Comment on That explains a lot
truthfultemporarily@feddit.org 2 months agoUnfortunately an Alcubierre drive dumps a shitload of high energy radiation in the direction of travel when it stops. We would sterilize every world we get to.
UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 2 months ago
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
So why not just stop beside the planet you are aiming for?
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Me travelling calmly through space when a rogue wave of high energy radiation blasts me from some rando warping 2974738 years ago
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Wouldn’t that be a non-issue? The radiation is going to be spreading out in a cone, not a focused laser beam. It should dissipate down to a level that a spaceships normal radiation shielding would already need to be able to handle pretty quickly.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hmm, I think you’re right