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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Then again, it may not be. Rain overnight as well, unless there is not. The news is all supposition lately. Hail may kill you today, but it may not.

uncertainty is the human condition

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 0 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] prex@aussie.zone 0 points 2 months ago

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

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] crandlecan@mander.xyz 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 0 points 2 months 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 0 points 2 months ago

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

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[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

"orbital bombardment"

They'd punch us in the eye?

[–] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago

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

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

Intergalactic time out.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 0 points 2 months ago
[–] grueling_spool@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago
[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Explains American politics, MAGA = Tzeechian cultists

[–] essell@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 0 points 2 months ago

I sprained my nurgle the other day. Still swollen

[–] Blackout@fedia.io 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That's why no one ever comes over to visit

[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I want to send money and start a franchise.

Did they get back to you at all?

[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago

They asked for extreme detail, it could take a while.

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

Sure. That's why.

[–] prex@aussie.zone 0 points 2 months ago

A plural Z void?

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not if Kronos wins office

[–] multifariace@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 0 points 2 months ago

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

[–] Safeguard@beehaw.org 0 points 2 months ago

So Trump is not just draining my will to live?

[–] qevlarr@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago
[–] BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"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 0 points 2 months ago
[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

We're being shunned by the galaxy.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 month ago

The slow smokeless burning of decay.

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

I understand perfectly.

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

It is technically remotely their problem.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

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

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 0 points 1 month ago

E Pluribus Anus?

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month 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.

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