Maybe that’s was the objective. Aliens find a little planet in the middle of a space desert, untouched by any race. It’s a nice experiment, they came here, dropped some DNA (either like that awful movie or by masturbating hard) and left. Now they’re just watching and laughing and laughing.
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.
Nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
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.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1202.5708
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.
There was a series on Netflix that used this. It was alright though probably got cancelled. Can’t remember the name of it.
It was called “Another Life” and it was pretty bad lol
It started out pretty bad, but by the end of season 2 it has become really solid 👍
oooh I might have to revisit then, Im almost done rewatching king of the hill
Yeah +1 on “it started slow but got better”. Not amazing or anything, but good enough that I wished there was more when I got to the last ep. But I do remember thinking it was bad early on and just kept watching out of boredom more than anything else.
Even in Battlestar Galactica they talk about the dangers in going into FTL near (or inside) another ship.
That show is just so good, I’m not surprised
Dammit - I just commented that on another post. This one is better.
If we’re really lucky, they could also be Ferengi.
We are the ferengi
we’re under galactic quarantine until we get over this whole fascism thing we’ve been doing the last 20k years
“orbital bombardment”
They’d punch us in the eye?
Wilson, King of Prussia!
I came across this:
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/lumpy-explain-dark-energy/
Does anyone know if this is related to this void we seem to be in, and if it’s promising at all? The connection to OP’s post is that I’m thinking this void was observed via redshift and this new thinking could change our understanding of our place in the universe as much closer to everything than it appears.
E Pluribus Anus?
Trapped, or imprisoned?
Intergalactic time out.
Imagine the answer to the Fermi paradox being that the aliens found us and immediately quarantined our entire planetary system.
They didn’t destroy Earth to build a bypass, the bypass was built around us
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Exiled
Dumb nerds. There’s a fucking crosshair pointed at us and they’re more interested in us in a void. /s
Not only that, it’s the biggest void we have ever discovered!
“We found a hole!”
“Holy shit! Is it like the previous one at all?”
“It’s exactly like the previous one, only BIGGER!”
Brazzers
It’s also right next to a giant chaos star apparently.
Explains American politics, MAGA = Tzeechian cultists
Only if you believe their leaders are playing real 4D chess
Otherwise, I’d say they’re more like a nurgle plague.
I sprained my nurgle the other day. Still swollen
We haven’t even gotten to the dark age of technology yet. This knowledge must be lost pretty soon. Or maybe discovering the Eye of Terror is referring to first contact of some sort.
Sounds like this discovery places us IN the Eye of Terror.
We’re being shunned by the galaxy.
The slow smokeless burning of decay.
I understand perfectly.
It is technically remotely their problem.
The Vogons will be along shortly to clear out the rest for a hyperspace expressway.
No if Kronos wins office
That’s why no one ever comes over to visit
According to the beliefs of the religion I invented and I don’t usually talk about because no one asks and starting a cult is too much trouble to bother, there’s only one intelligent species per galaxy, you’re only allowed to meet the neighbours once you manage colonise it all.
Would you please go into extreme detail about your religion? pretty please?
I want to send money and start a franchise.
Did they get back to you at all?
They asked for extreme detail, it could take a while.
Sure. That’s why.
Good thing everyone and everything I know is here on earth.
