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truthfultemporarily@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Unfortunately an Alcubierre drive dumps a shitload of high energy radiation in the direction of travel when it stops. We would sterilize every world we get to.

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IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
So why not just stop beside the planet you are aiming for?

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- Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Me travelling calmly through space when a rogue wave of high energy radiation blasts me from some rando warping 2974738 years ago
  
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  - IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Wouldn’t that be a non-issue? The radiation is going to be spreading out in a cone, not a focused laser beam. It should dissipate down to a level that a spaceships normal radiation shielding would already need to be able to handle pretty quickly.
    
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    Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Hmm, I think you’re right
    
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UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Isn’t that a solvable problem though? Overshoot the target planet by just enough, that it isn’t in the hemisphere of the warp bubble pointed towards the direction of motion.

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