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Scientists Propose New Way to Find Aliens: Detect Their Failing Warp Drives

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Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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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  • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨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

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨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.

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      • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨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.

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    • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s what it means to specialize.

      You can detect a forklift before most other people can.

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      • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨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

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    • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨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.

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      • 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

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    • Jordan117@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Science location, you rube.

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  • Erasmus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Rusty@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If immaterium is real, we have a much bigger problems than inability to detect xeno’s warp drives.

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    • RunningInRVA@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Whatever. Just track their warp signatures.

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  • brotkel@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Scientists: We’ve been trying to reach you about your spaceship’s extended warranty…

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  • bappity@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    just look for hyper evolved salamanders, that’s what happened in voyagers warp experiment gone wrong right

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨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.

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      • hopesdead@startrek.website ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Then why did a Hologram of Janeway tell a bunch of kids she once was a salamander?

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    • brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How dare you.

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  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I propose detecting atmospheric anomalies induced by their infinite improbability drives.

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Such as falling whales?

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      • AEsheron@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Pretty hard to detect. But… probably easier than finding the petunias I guess.

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    • hopesdead@startrek.website ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      As long as we can still go to The Restaurant the end of the Universe, I’m cool with that.

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  • littlecolt@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t forget to polarize the sensors.

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    • dan1101@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If that doesn’t work then reverse the polarity.

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    • Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Bounce a graviton particle beam off the main deflector dish.

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  • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    you can't see a failing warp drive through a cloak. duh.

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  • Supervisor194@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We need to just work on making our own. Then the Vulcans will find us.

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  • ScruffyDucky@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So civilizations travelling at ludicrous speed won’t be discovered, so sad

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  • hopesdead@startrek.website ⁨5⁩ ⁨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?

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨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.

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