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[-] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 88 points 1 year 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.

[-] Reliq@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago

Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 year 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.

https://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 9 points 1 year 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 8 points 1 year ago

It was called "Another Life" and it was pretty bad lol

[-] crandlecan@mander.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

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

[-] janewaydidnothingwrong@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

oooh I might have to revisit then, Im almost done rewatching king of the hill

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah +1 on "it started slow but got better". Not amazing or anything, but good enough that I wished there was more when I got to the last ep. But I do remember thinking it was bad early on and just kept watching out of boredom more than anything else.

[-] argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year 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 8 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Cube6392@beehaw.org 22 points 1 year ago

we're under galactic quarantine until we get over this whole fascism thing we've been doing the last 20k years

[-] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

If we're really lucky, they could also be Ferengi.

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[-] qevlarr@lemmy.world 81 points 1 year ago

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 46 points 1 year ago

Trapped, or imprisoned?

[-] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

Intergalactic time out.

[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 10 points 1 year ago

Exiled

[-] grueling_spool@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

Imagine the answer to the Fermi paradox being that the aliens found us and immediately quarantined our entire planetary system.

[-] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

cough

[-] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

They didn’t destroy Earth to build a bypass, the bypass was built around us

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[-] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 year ago

It's also right next to a giant chaos star apparently.

[-] TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Explains American politics, MAGA = Tzeechian cultists

[-] essell@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Only if you believe their leaders are playing real 4D chess

Otherwise, I'd say they're more like a nurgle plague.

[-] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I sprained my nurgle the other day. Still swollen

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[-] BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago

Not only that, it’s the biggest void we have ever discovered!

[-] anarchy79@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

"We found a hole!"

"Holy shit! Is it like the previous one at all?"

"It's exactly like the previous one, only BIGGER!"

[-] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Brazzers

[-] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago

Good thing everyone and everything I know is here on earth.

[-] Blackout@fedia.io 14 points 1 year ago

That's why no one ever comes over to visit

[-] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

According to the beliefs of the religion I invented and I don't usually talk about because no one asks and starting a cult is too much trouble to bother, there's only one intelligent species per galaxy, you're only allowed to meet the neighbours once you manage colonise it all.

[-] tkohldesac@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Would you please go into extreme detail about your religion? pretty please?

[-] anarchy79@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I want to send money and start a franchise.

Did they get back to you at all?

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[-] anarchy79@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Sure. That's why.

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 year ago

We're being shunned by the galaxy.

[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 24 points 1 year ago

Death Breathers

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[-] anarchy79@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I understand perfectly.

[-] multifariace@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

We haven't even gotten to the dark age of technology yet. This knowledge must be lost pretty soon. Or maybe discovering the Eye of Terror is referring to first contact of some sort.

[-] Almacca@aussie.zone 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Vogons will be along shortly to clear out the rest for a hyperspace expressway.

[-] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not if Kronos wins office

[-] anarchy79@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

It is technically remotely their problem.

[-] icelimit@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You know how the military clears the area of a target for range practise?

[-] argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Maybe that’s was the objective. Aliens find a little planet in the middle of a space desert, untouched by any race. It’s a nice experiment, they came here, dropped some DNA (either like that awful movie or by masturbating hard) and left. Now they’re just watching and laughing and laughing.

[-] Safeguard@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

So Trump is not just draining my will to live?

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Imagine humanity's ships emerging from "the dark realm" leaving other species' empires realing in shock.

[-] prex@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago

A plural Z void?

[-] hopesdead@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

E Pluribus Anus?

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I came across this:

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/lumpy-explain-dark-energy/

Does anyone know if this is related to this void we seem to be in, and if it's promising at all? The connection to OP's post is that I'm thinking this void was observed via redshift and this new thinking could change our understanding of our place in the universe as much closer to everything than it appears.

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