Re:Have we already been visited by aliens?
by LargoLasskhyfv on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @11:05PM
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Why is that? Let's say we've emitted since about 100 years. They are bound by lightspeed like we are. Our wavefront hasn't reached them so far, OR it has, and they are about 50 lightyears away, busy building a slow annihilation fleet, arriving here anytime about 100 years from now, depending on how high up to lightspeed they can go?
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Re:Have we already been visited by aliens?
by nobody9999 on Thursday January 21, 2021 @05:15AM
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>and they are about 50 lightyears away, busy building a slow annihilation fleet, arriving here anytime about 100 years from now,
It's an interesting idea, but it raises the reasonable (IMHO) question, "Why would they bother?"
It seems like an awfully big investment of resources for actions which wouldn't be of real benefit to them.
Re:Have we already been visited by aliens?
by yoz-y on Thursday January 21, 2021 @05:30AM
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If your goal is annihilation you don't bother with a fleet, you hurl a relativistic kill vehicle (aka, a hunk of rock or metal) at them.
Re:Have we already been visited by aliens?
by LargoLasskhyfv on Thursday January 21, 2021 @10:26AM
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Nonono! Need to have the holy and heroic enforcers of the righteous path embedded and experience it with full sensorium, to conserve the glory of it for all eternity, and bring it back to be rememberd as it really happened(TM)!