That would be us
*they
Can we trick a few billionaires into going there
Not without condemning their personal staff to a living hell
They can quit
Yeah but then the billionaires wouldn’t go. We can’t trick them into going without them taking a bunch of working class people to torture.
Just convince them that AI can handle it. Shouldn’t be too hard these days.
They want the power over others. At the very least they’ll want harems. My point here is there are more, ahem, local solutions to our inequality problem that don’t involve letting the oligarchs just fuck off.
I‘m sure theres plenty of maga and crypto bros that would be willing to serve their billionaire sugar daddys to suck on their feet.
Let’s tell them they’re next
Only 150 light years away?! Wow, that’s practically next door! Now all we need to do is figure out how to go light speed and even then it’ll take a further 300 years just to know if the colonists got there safely or not!
When the first colonists arrive the planet will already be inhabited by humans since 100 years after they left we invent the warp drive. And trying to intercept them mid travel and board them on to the new ship is impossible since they travel near the speed of light in the darkness of space.
I’m pretty sure that’s a sidequest in Starfield. The ECS Constant colony ship set off in 2140 to colonise a planet, arriving in 2330 at the planet Paradiso, which had become a luxury resort planet for the rich, because shortly after the ship left, humanity invented the grav drive and every ship just zoomed right past them.
I blew them up.
Whenever a game gives me a questline like “a mysterious ship is hailing you. You have never seen anything like it, you get the feeling that it is very important” I blast the fucking thing out of the sky.
Don’t tell me what I think is important, dev.
That is, indeed, choosing not to accept something improbable. I mean hey, none is wrecking your ball to pave a highway…or at least you won’t still be around to acknowledge it!
They’ve already sent galactic missiles to wipe us out before we can ruin them.
Any civilization capable of sending missiles across the galaxy should be more than capable of simply sending a tight beam of gamma radiation to sterilize the planet. No need for earth shattering explosions. Just a flood of radiation engulfing the planet for a minute or two and everything not buried a mile underground will be dead. There would be no warning either.
And that’s if they don’t bother to just blow up the sun.
I like the just speed up a small, really heavy object to a very high speed approach of The Three Body Problem books.
Unfortunately it is technically in New Jersey.
I’m gonna eat that planet
If we could accelerate at a constant 1g, flip, and decelerate at a constant 1g, the trip would take ~152 years… from Earth’s perspective. If you were onboard, time dilation would make the trip about 10 years.
1g! We have like 6g now!
C’mon billionaires! This is your chance to create a totally unique planet! Get onboard an X rocket and fly your teslas out there! We are all counting on you my friends! All of you! We will need the chip guys, the real estate and building tycoons, the medicine billionaires and everyone in between, all you must go!
Do you mean “c” instead of “g”? I don’t think there are a lot of “g” in interplanetary travel.
I mean ‘g’. 1g is 9.81m/s^2. c is a speed, not an acceleration. g is acceleration.
Not coincidentally, it’s the acceleration you experience from Earth’s gravity, but it doesn’t have to come from gravity. Astronauts routinely experience 3gs during takeoff from their rocket boosters.
If you were in a rocket that accelerated at a constant 1g it would feel like Earth’s gravity, even in space. We don’t have any rockets capable of producing 1g for years.
I understand now, thanks.
No, g is a measure of acceleration equal to Earth’s gravitational pull at the surface of earth (approx 9.8 meters per second per second). ‘c’ is the speed of light, you can’t accelerate with a speed.
Ok, thanks for the clarification, I clearly misunderstood “g” and how it was used.
How cool would be to have radio communications with similarly tech-evolved aliens.
Edt: could
Very could!
That would be like so could man.
Could could could no scout no scout no scout
Friggin Gen Z-er, get off my lawn!!! shakes fist from the porch
I think that’s a drone you’re shaking your fist at.
👀
Sadly, special relativity says no.
There are a few speculative ideas on faster than light travel. Such as worm holes, quantum tunneling, and super fluid vacuum theories.
Are they real in the sense that we can know how they can work today? Nope. But lots of ideas we take for granted today were “impossible” not that long ago. The fact that real physicists are even thinking about those possibilities could lead to something in the future.
not with that attitude!
Yeah yeah everyone thinks they’re special.
cant wait to see alien brainrot
Alright, Jimbo, let’s see its atmospheric composition. Does it have a gas giant in its system?
No, your mother is in the kitchen.
Well. This is quite a pearl.
I don’t have time to read a 16-page paper in detail, but I did want to know how the host star compares to everyone’s favourite local solitary K-type dwarf, Epsilon Eridani. It’s slightly less massive (~0.7 solar mass versus 0.8 for ε Eri) and quite a bit less bright (difference of about 0.1 solar luminosity), but I especially wanted to know about the age of the star. ε Eri is quite young and frothy, but the investigators here infer from the star’s motion that it belongs to the thin disk, up to a whopping 10 billion years old.
So we are definitely not talking about an ε Eri-type system. So that should be mean no dust disks, no crazy activity from the star, and no newish planets still carving out their places through the system.
You’ve really got to wonder about such an old planet, however cold and quiescent it may be. The potential paths for climatic evolution on such a world boggle the mind, however cold it is. You could get an episodically or formerly active world like Mars, a beautifully unstable oscillatory world like Earth, or something completely different. Assuming any atmosphere, of course (safe assumption?). And that’s without considering whether there are any other planets in the system.
I really wouldn’t spend too much time thinking about this candidate detection, as we have literally seen just the one transit, and we will need to observe this fellow for a while to confirm the discovery, learn about other planets in the system, and so on. The investigators themselves note that the transit was shallow (meaning difficult to detect), but the good news is that the host star is fairly bright, well within reach of amateur equipment. I wonder if citizen scientists will be able to follow the transits.
Exciting times.
quite young and frothy
haha, y-yes
Send the pedofile billionaires
pedoplanet? this is how you get pedoplanet.
just kill them here so their bodies can rot and feed the planet.
as far as we know this is the pedo planet
They said send them, never said in what condition.
They’re probably so full of weird shit and plastic surgical filler they will contaminate wherever they die. Imo send them to mars alive. The microbes on them might help terraform mars if you send enough billionaires. All of them should do.
Why all these fancy impractical scifi solutions when the problem can be solved by a single bullet to the forehead? You can even use those cattle euthanizers and save on the bullet.
That’s a great idea, instead of building rockets to deliver them to mars we could build a giant gun and fire them into mars at crazy high velocity. An operation plumbob situation.
Haven’t you seen Alien:Prometheus? Humanoid aliens sending their pedos to earth and dispersing their DNA to create a whole new pedosystem was what got us into this mess in the first place. We must not repeat the cycle!
Prometheus was a silly movie.
They’ll never make it
Why not ship them into Venus’ surface? Much closer, anyway.
Planet of the Rapes. Oh my God, I was wrong it was Earth all along!
I don’t like comparing inter and intra and extra species behavior to what humans call rape. Not a fun path to go down.
Send them on a generation ship without medbays with Hormel and Campbell’s and Dasani
Excuse me but if alpo’s good enough for daisy, it’s good enough for them
Our two guaranteed inhabitable worlds are in alpha centauri and sirius
Imagine arriving there after 150 years only for the colony to fail due to a random prion in the environment.
Give a read to Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson 😉
It’s in fact what I was channeling with my comment ;)
150 years travelling at light speed?
Check this out
Friday night HD 137010 b run boys, who is in?
How neat, its name even comes in High Definition!
-94° is apparently habitable?
We let Exxon and Ford build petrol stations and oversized pick ups and SUVs first, then just wait about 100 years.
That’ll do it.
None of you smelly monkeys are welcome; keep your filthy paws off my home.
