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At least Oumuamua's light sail will only accelerate it to 15-20% of the speed of light. Unless they have some kind of warp drive we haven't seen yet, that shoul
by Reason077 4y ago
At least Oumuamua's light sail will only accelerate it to 15-20% of the speed of light. Unless they have some kind of warp drive we haven't seen yet, that should give us (at very least) 20-30 years before the invasion fleet gets here. Probably much longer.
- yojo 4y agoUnless it seeded a little self-replicating factory on the way by. The invasion force could already be growing exponentially out in the Oort Cloud. Or not. To paraphrase: sometimes a cigar-shaped interstellar mass is just a cigar-shaped interstellar mass.
- euroderf 4y agoAny factory way out there is going to operate exceedingly slowly, innit ? Unless there is power from nuclear, or some other source TBD (to be discovered, by us).