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Re:Post-Detection SETI Protocols and METI: The Time Has Come... by pdonis on Saturday February 11, 2017 @06:41PM (#13625571)
> Are there any sort of proposed or theoretical FTL weapons?

No.

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Re:Post-Detection SETI Protocols and METI: The Time Has Come... by cthalupa on Saturday February 11, 2017 @06:57PM (#13625652)
Sure there are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive#Damaging_effe...

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Re:Post-Detection SETI Protocols and METI: The Time Has Come... by pdonis on Saturday February 11, 2017 @06:59PM (#13625662)
> Sure there are.

If you include "believed to be impossible" in the definition, I guess.

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Re:Post-Detection SETI Protocols and METI: The Time Has Come... by pmoriarty on Saturday February 11, 2017 @07:34PM (#13625809)
"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong." -- Arthur C. Clarke
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Re:Post-Detection SETI Protocols and METI: The Time Has Come... by pdonis on Saturday February 11, 2017 @10:08PM (#13626433)
Thanks for the implicit compliment, but I'm not a distinguished but elderly scientist. :-)
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