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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.
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
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?
It is technically remotely their problem.
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
We're being shunned by the galaxy.
I understand perfectly.
Trapped, or imprisoned?
Intergalactic time out.
Exiled
Imagine the answer to the Fermi paradox being that the aliens found us and immediately quarantined our entire planetary system.
cough
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.
The Vogons will be along shortly to clear out the rest for a hyperspace expressway.
Not if Kronos wins office
Dumb nerds. There’s a fucking crosshair pointed at us and they’re more interested in us in a void. /s
Imagine humanity's ships emerging from "the dark realm" leaving other species' empires realing in shock.
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
So Trump is not just draining my will to live?
That's why no one ever comes over to visit
Sure. That's why.
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?
Good thing everyone and everything I know is here on earth.
You know how the military clears the area of a target for range practise?
A plural Z void?
Some other said that the universe is in a giant black hole, this also explain the acelerated expansion into it. We'll seeAnyway the Earth don't exist anymore since a long time, until the spaguetification, not even when Andromeda crashed with th Milkyway, maybe still when we know that we are NPCs in an Galactic WoW computergame.
Can you get me the number of your dealer? You have some good stuff there...
Nothing to do with it, currently there are a growing numbers of hypotheses about the Universe, since the James Webb Telescope had trashed most of the old astrononical models. I've seen more than 5 changes of hipotheses to explain the differences between current observation and what before was taken as valid theory, fucking up the astpnomers and astro-physicists. These for sure had needed some colored pills with an whisky, putting years of work in the trashcan. Now the era of Brainstorming to fix it.
Then again, it may not be. Rain overnight as well, unless there is not. The news is all supposition lately. Hail may kill you today, but it may not.
uncertainty is the human condition