Re: A New Solution to the Fermi Paradox

In article <7b1fecfda7a6d89d98d013b628df68ba@www.novabbs.com>,
quadibloc  <quadibloc@gmail.com> wrote:

I remember reading some time ago that a faster-than-light ship
designed using some derivative of the Alcubierre warp drive...
would devastate the distant solar system it was trying to visit
as soon as it tried to stop moving.
Ouch.

There was an SF story... Our Heros, in their brand new warp
drive ship, travel to some other star system, and the star
is in the process of supernovaing.  Oops, that was really bad
luck, better warp out of her really quickly.  So they go back
to Earth, and the Sun is supernovaing.  The drive is doing it.

I'm not sure who wrote that; it was a long time ago.

The Alcubierre drive, assuming you can get negative mass in
cosmological quantities to power it, even if it didn't
destroy the destination, would seem to have rather negative
consequences for anything between here and there.

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