we’re under galactic quarantine until we get over this whole fascism thing we’ve been doing the last 20k years
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xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 3 days ago
Eh. It’s not like we’d be getting anywhere at sub-light speeds regardless and a working Alcubierre drive isn’t exactly right around the corner.
On the other hand, it might make it harder for anybody with working FTL to get to us, which is probably a good thing. If they saw how we’re conducting ourselves at the moment, orbital bombardment would be the best we could hope for.
Cube6392@beehaw.org 3 days ago
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Zron@lemmy.world 1 day ago
We are the ferengi
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 3 days ago
“orbital bombardment”
They’d punch us in the eye?
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Wilson, King of Prussia!
Reliq@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Somewhat ironically… actually using an Alcubierre drive has been theorized to…
…well, basically, when you ‘come out of warp speed’, turns out you’ve been accumulating, and energizing, a whole bunch of exotic particles and radiation along the threshold of your ‘warp bubble’…
… so when you uh, decelerate/stop fucking spacetime so hard… you spew out an immense amount of exotic particles and radiation.
arxiv.org/pdf/1202.5708
So you wouldn’t even have to nuke it from orbit.
You just have to come out of warp right next to your target planet, and that’d probably boil off a good portion of its atmosphere, and give everything biological on the side facing you lethal radiation poisoning.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 days ago
There was a series on Netflix that used this. It was alright though probably got cancelled. Can’t remember the name of it.
janewaydidnothingwrong@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It was called “Another Life” and it was pretty bad lol
prex@aussie.zone 3 days ago
Dammit - I just commented that on another post. This one is better.