If we’re really lucky, they could also be Ferengi.
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xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 8 months 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.
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Zron@lemmy.world 8 months ago
We are the ferengi
Cube6392@beehaw.org 8 months ago
we’re under galactic quarantine until we get over this whole fascism thing we’ve been doing the last 20k years
Reliq@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months 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.
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 8 months 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 months ago
It was called “Another Life” and it was pretty bad lol
prex@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Dammit - I just commented that on another post. This one is better.
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 8 months ago
“orbital bombardment”
They’d punch us in the eye?
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Wilson, King of Prussia!