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| Topic | The "Dark Forest" theory of aliens. |
| Aristoph 01/22/21 4:02:02 AM #23: | indica posted... "a small hunk of mass" would take hundreds if not thousands of years to get here so it would take an extreme amount of forethought and ungodly precision to attack us that way. It would be much pretty to put a basic guidance computer and ion engine on a small unmanned drone and send it on its way. Once you've fired it, you don't really have to think about it much anymore. As far as accuracy goes, even with our current (and extremely primitive, by interstellar-civilization standards) technology, we already know that the second spacecraft we've ever sent beyond our solar system, Voyager 2, should get approximately 4 light-years away from the star Sirius in about 298,000 years. Space is huge. But it's also almost completely empty. Which makes charting courses over long periods of time surprisingly easy once you've gotten outside the gravitational influences of your own busy solar system. There's very few things to disturb trajectories out there, after all. --- PSN ID: Aristoph http://www.youtube.com/user/SotCRules ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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