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I've often thought to ask whether we'd even come up with technology to pick up fast moving objects in space heading towards us even before we have the capacity
by jlebrech 10y ago
I've often thought to ask whether we'd even come up with technology to pick up fast moving objects in space heading towards us even before we have the capacity to travel at those speeds ourselves.
we've always observe things in nature and then replicated them, if we saw something move faster than light that would advance our technology even if it's just by knowing it exists elsewhere.
- kator 10y agoMore than once I've been in a meeting where someone said "But competitor A spent 1 Billion dollars building that". And I would quip back "And now we know it can be built and it won't take a billion dollars to do it". I agree, the real value is know something is possible from there all things related make more sense and many decisions can be made based on that one fact.
- undersuit 10y agoWhen I saw this new article start popping up yesterday it reminded me of the book Starfarers by Poul Anderson. Strange radiation signatures are detected in space, scientists figure out it is alien tech, and then figure out how to reverse engineer it.