• Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    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

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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      The whole thing is theoretical, but the more tools we have on our belt to look for intelligent life in the universe, the better.

      • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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        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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      That’s what it means to specialize.

      You can detect a forklift before most other people can.

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

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

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    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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      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.