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Didn't ask. (lemmynsfw.com)

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 days ago (9 children)

Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (6 children)

There was a series on Netflix that used this. It was alright though probably got cancelled. Can't remember the name of it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It was called "Another Life" and it was pretty bad lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It started out pretty bad, but by the end of season 2 it has become really solid 👍

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

oooh I might have to revisit then, Im almost done rewatching king of the hill

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Even in Battlestar Galactica they talk about the dangers in going into FTL near (or inside) another ship.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago

That show is just so good, I'm not surprised

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