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So I've got a new Fermi paradox solution. Once we build a large enough radio telescope we will start receiving a lot of chatter from around the universe. Buried
by api 5y ago
So I've got a new Fermi paradox solution. Once we build a large enough radio telescope we will start receiving a lot of chatter from around the universe. Buried in this will be a "high energy physics challenge" involving a powerful particle accelerator, a superconductor, and some synthetic elements with very large nuclei. After performing this challenge there will be another asteroid belt where Earth used to be, and someone somewhere will get some LULZ when they detect a certain kind of characteristic gamma ray pulse followed by silence.
- wingmanjd 5y agoSo, the celestial equivalent of "Press Alt+F4 for hacks"?
- ljm 5y agoInterdimensional Tik-Tok sounds interesting. I wonder how many alien civilisations are receiving our broadcasts millions of years in the future, and trying to reproduce them. Like an entire planet just received the first season of Jackass and their anthropologists have had to rethink their entire concept of this distant human civilisation.
- heavyarms 5y agoNot exactly the same, but "The Three-Body Problem" by Cixin Liu has a plot that starts a little like this.
- 0xdeadb00f 5y agoThat's actually a fantastic idea for a novel or a movie (are you referencing one?) If that's never been written before, I hope someone does.