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• 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.

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  • 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.

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    • janewaydidnothingwrong@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It was called “Another Life” and it was pretty bad lol

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      • crandlecan@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        It started out pretty bad, but by the end of season 2 it has become really solid 👍

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      • argh_another_username@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Even in Battlestar Galactica they talk about the dangers in going into FTL near (or inside) another ship.

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• prex@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Dammit - I just commented that on another post. This one is better.

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