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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.
If we're really lucky, they could also be Ferengi.
We are the ferengi
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 👍
Even in Battlestar Galactica they talk about the dangers in going into FTL near (or inside) another ship.
Dammit - I just commented that on another post. This one is better.
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!