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Am I the only one immediately thinking "war"? These bursts might be some start detonations in a war between two alien species, which would be really frightenin
by xgbi 10y ago
Am I the only one immediately thinking "war"?
These bursts might be some start detonations in a war between two alien species, which would be really frightening..!
- rwmj 10y agoConsidering they are coming from "outside our galaxy" and our galaxy is 100,000 light years across, that means two things: (1) This "war" (if it happened) happened long ago, and (2) The victor is very far away. In any case it's far more likely this is some natural phenomenon.
- thatcherclay 10y agoA space war from a long time ago and a galaxy far away? Where have I heard that before... maybe this is just a Disney marketing ploy...
- throwanem 10y agoI think you might mean "fascinating". Imagine how it would be to observe and follow a war between two total strangers across battlefields now many thousand years cold, by nothing more than the fossil light of their weapons discharges.
- internaut 10y agoAny interstellar species could be too easily wiped out if the enemy knew the locations of the home worlds, so they would go to enormous lengths to conceal the locations. It is similar to modern war on Earth. So the flashes in the sky could be enormous depth charges, thrown blind into the abyss to reduce narrow probability counts or ferret out the hidden home worlds. Since an attack can be total, and come from anywhere, and you can never know if you fully succeeded, the peoples of Glurk-42 had a nervous disposition.
- motoboi 10y agoHave you read Three-Body problem? If you didn't, you'll love that book, for it's depiction of a universe as a "dark forest" full of hunters waiting to someone less cautious to appear is very much like yours.
- internaut 10y agoI have not, it resides mere feet away on my bookshelf and I shall read it this Winter :-)