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

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

[–] prex@aussie.zone 0 points 1 day ago

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

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 day 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 1 day 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.

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

[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 0 points 1 day 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 1 day ago

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

collapsed inline media

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 0 points 23 hours ago

"orbital bombardment"

They'd punch us in the eye?

[–] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 day ago

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

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

Intergalactic time out.

[–] grueling_spool@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 day ago (1 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 23 hours ago
[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

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

Explains American politics, MAGA = Tzeechian cultists

[–] essell@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day 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 23 hours ago

I sprained my nurgle the other day. Still swollen

[–] Blackout@fedia.io 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That's why no one ever comes over to visit

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

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

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

I want to send money and start a franchise.

Did they get back to you at all?

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

Sure. That's why.

[–] prex@aussie.zone 0 points 1 day ago

A plural Z void?

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

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

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 0 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Not if Kronos wins office

[–] multifariace@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day 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 23 hours ago

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

[–] Safeguard@beehaw.org 0 points 1 day ago

So Trump is not just draining my will to live?

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

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

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day 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 23 hours ago
[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

We're being shunned by the galaxy.

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

It is technically remotely their problem.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 0 points 23 hours ago

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