Earth Received a Message Laser-Beamed from 10M Miles Away in NASA Test

Re:Earth Received a Message Laser-Beamed from 10M Miles Away... by thecosmicfrog on Sunday March 17, 2024 @06:24AM (#39733313)

This is why Star Trek uses "subspace" as a plot handwavium[1] to explain how a starship can hail Earth from hundreds of lightyears away with seemingly no latency.

[1] handwavium, my favourite new word: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=handwavium

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Re:Earth Received a Message Laser-Beamed from 10M Miles Away... by macintux on Sunday March 17, 2024 @06:27AM (#39733331)

For some illogical reason I never had a problem with sending messages across such vast distances, but when the Enterprise detected another ship starting its engines from a light year away my suspension of disbelief collapsed.

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Re:Earth Received a Message Laser-Beamed from 10M Miles Away... by jryb on Sunday March 17, 2024 @08:38AM (#39734077)

Easy fix: subspace-based sensors. If the other ship is transmitting in any way, or its engine produces visible artifacts in the subspace field, it could be detected.

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