Re: A New Solution to the Fermi Paradox

On 2025-03-02, quadibloc <quadibloc@gmail.com> wrote:

What if beings in general, like us, are so desperate to achieve
FTL... that what almost always happens is that they end up blowing
up their home planet in their first attempt to launch an FTL
spaceship?

In the German _Terranauten_ series, the evil corporations used
funnel-shaped "Kaiserkraft"[1] FTL spaceships that would--insert
technobabble about "entropy"--destroy the fabric of the universe
as a side effect.  Talk about pollution.  There was some
psionic-organic-something environmentally friendly alternative used
by the good guys.


[1] I only caught the paperback tail-end of the series and never
    read the original pulps, so I don't really know what "Kaiserkraft"
    was supposed to be and how to render it in English.  Maybe
    "Kaiser force", named after its inventor?  The literal meaning
    of "Kaiser", emperor, seems unlikely in this context, but I
    simply don't know.
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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de