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sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months agoSomewhat 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 2 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 2 months ago
It was called “Another Life” and it was pretty bad lol
crandlecan@mander.xyz 2 months ago
It started out pretty bad, but by the end of season 2 it has become really solid 👍
janewaydidnothingwrong@lemmy.world 2 months ago
oooh I might have to revisit then, Im almost done rewatching king of the hill
argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Even in Battlestar Galactica they talk about the dangers in going into FTL near (or inside) another ship.
janewaydidnothingwrong@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That show is just so good, I’m not surprised