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[-] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 84 points 2 weeks 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 40 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 6 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] crandlecan@mander.xyz 5 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] janewaydidnothingwrong@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago

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

[-] janewaydidnothingwrong@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

That show is just so good, I'm not surprised

[-] prex@aussie.zone 8 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] Cube6392@beehaw.org 21 points 2 weeks 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 15 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] Zron@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

We are the ferengi

[-] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

"orbital bombardment"

They'd punch us in the eye?

[-] qevlarr@lemmy.world 67 points 2 weeks ago

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 42 points 2 weeks ago

Trapped, or imprisoned?

[-] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 34 points 2 weeks ago

Intergalactic time out.

[-] grueling_spool@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago

cough

[-] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] grueling_spool@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

Username checks out

[-] MarriedCavelady50@lemmy.ml 29 points 2 weeks ago

Dumb nerds. There’s a fucking crosshair pointed at us and they’re more interested in us in a void. /s

[-] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Explains American politics, MAGA = Tzeechian cultists

[-] essell@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks 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 2 points 2 weeks ago

I sprained my nurgle the other day. Still swollen

[-] Damage@feddit.it 2 points 2 weeks ago

Chaos star, you say?

[-] multifariace@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] Erasmus@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Sounds like this discovery places us IN the Eye of Terror.

[-] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 weeks ago

We're being shunned by the galaxy.

[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 21 points 2 weeks ago

Death Breathers

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

The slow smokeless burning of decay.

[-] Blackout@fedia.io 11 points 2 weeks ago

That's why no one ever comes over to visit

[-] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

[-] Almacca@aussie.zone 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

[-] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Not if Kronos wins office

[-] icelimit@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

[-] argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago

So Trump is not just draining my will to live?

[-] prex@aussie.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago

A plural Z void?

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Some other said that the universe is in a giant black hole, this also explain the acelerated expansion into it. We'll seeAnyway the Earth don't exist anymore since a long time, until the spaguetification, not even when Andromeda crashed with th Milkyway, maybe still when we know that we are NPCs in an Galactic WoW computergame.

https://youtu.be/CvbT4VV6N7Y