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.

It wouldn't happen to be a Randall Garrett story, ... checking ... ,
"Time Fuze".

This recently suggested an idea to me.
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?
It might be that FTL is a bit trickier than we will realize when
the time comes.

OBSF reference: "Catspaw" by George O. Smith (ASF September 1948 issue,
reprinted in _The Worlds of George O._ (Bantam Books, 1982).

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