That’s assuming they actually use a Star Trek style warp drive when we ALL know they are actually using Navigators to jump into the Immaterium.
Scientists Propose New Way to Find Aliens: Detect Their Failing Warp Drives
Submitted 4 months ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://gizmodo.com/detect-aliens-warp-drive-collapse-gravitational-waves-1851550746
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Erasmus@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Rusty@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
If immaterium is real, we have a much bigger problems than inability to detect xeno’s warp drives.
RunningInRVA@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Whatever. Just track their warp signatures.
brotkel@programming.dev 4 months ago
Scientists: We’ve been trying to reach you about your spaceship’s extended warranty…
bappity@lemmy.world 4 months ago
just look for hyper evolved salamanders, that’s what happened in voyagers warp experiment gone wrong right
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It did not. That never happened. No one has ever gone beyond Warp 10. It’s infinite speed. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
hopesdead@startrek.website 4 months ago
Then why did a Hologram of Janeway tell a bunch of kids she once was a salamander?
brsrklf@jlai.lu 4 months ago
How dare you.
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I propose detecting atmospheric anomalies induced by their infinite improbability drives.
shalafi@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Such as falling whales?
AEsheron@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Pretty hard to detect. But… probably easier than finding the petunias I guess.
hopesdead@startrek.website 4 months ago
As long as we can still go to The Restaurant the end of the Universe, I’m cool with that.
littlecolt@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Don’t forget to polarize the sensors.
dan1101@lemm.ee 4 months ago
If that doesn’t work then reverse the polarity.
Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Bounce a graviton particle beam off the main deflector dish.
HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 4 months ago
you can't see a failing warp drive through a cloak. duh.
Supervisor194@lemmy.world 4 months ago
We need to just work on making our own. Then the Vulcans will find us.
ScruffyDucky@lemmy.world 4 months ago
So civilizations travelling at ludicrous speed won’t be discovered, so sad
hopesdead@startrek.website 4 months ago
Sure, sure, you think looking for an intermix chamber of antimatter and matter that is not 1:1 is easy. What happens if they are simply leaking plasma from their nacelles? Or what if the ship is trying to steal your tech by luring an engineer onboard to repair “damaged” systems?
Or what if their warp drive uses an artificial singularity?
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You seem to think that they are saying they can find any alien ship with any sort of technology. They aren’t. They are saying that if an alien ship has this specific type of theorized warp drive technology and it fails, then we know how we would be able to detect that.
Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Provided that’s even how they work
But what they hell do I know, I drive a forklift for a living not do science things with other science people at the science place
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The whole thing is theoretical, but the more tools we have on our belt to look for intelligent life in the universe, the better.
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Unless we go the way of Independence Day or Three-Body Problem. At this point though I’d also probably say…
spoiler
Please conquer us. We’re sooooo fucking stupid.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That’s what it means to specialize.
You can detect a forklift before most other people can.
Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
I can literally build a Jenga tower with standard size Jenga blocks using a forklift (we have little competitions every so often)(unfortunately I can’t show pics or videos otherwise it’d be a security incident)
I got that shit on lock
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Of course it’s assuming that’s how advanced propulsion tech works. But it is useful to try to detect, just in case that’s how it actually turns out to work, no?
And if we detect something interesting, like a potential warp bubble collapse, well, that also gives us a strong hint that it’s possible, helping us to direct research in the right path.
Detecting techno-signatures of aliens would be super useful for us.
Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
And if course there’s the sheer awesome factor of if it turns out to be the case
Could you imagine being the dude who makes that discovery? Prepare to have shit named after you for centuries
Jordan117@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Science location, you rube.