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Watch for a Nancy Polosi trade predicting aliens.
by bgirard 3y ago
Watch for a Nancy Polosi trade predicting aliens.
- lesuorac 3y agoWhat do you trade if Aliens are real? Are you shorting Tech on the idea that w/e we have now is inferior to theirs? Do you go long on War on the idea that we'll start fighting them? -- Perhaps more difficult, what do you trade if Aliens aren't real?
- time0ut 3y agoIf they are real? Ya, long on Raytheon et al and pray we win the Seven Hour War… If they aren’t, I dunno? Business as usual cause its already priced in.
- somenameforme 3y agoI'm all in on Durex.
- paxys 3y agoDepends on how "real". A microbe discovered on some rock 60 trillion miles away isn't really going to move the markets. An alien attack fleet entering our solar system...maybe go long Raytheon.
- TinyRick 3y agoI've always found it amusing that people think humans would be any match for an NHI species that has technology capable of reaching our solar system.
- paxys 3y agoRead https://www.eyeofmidas.com/scifi/Turtledove_RoadNotTaken.pdf https://www.eyeofmidas.com/scifi/Turtledove_RoadNotTaken.pdf to get a new perspective on this.
- time0ut 3y agoThis is where my thoughts went as well. Harry Turtledove is prolific at coming up with scenarios where aliens are capable of interstellar travel but not good at war. His World War series sets up a slightly more plausible scenario. If you haven’t read it, it’s worthwhile and I don’t want to spoil it here. An interesting aspect of it though was the aliens having finite resources with very long delays in resupply. They underestimate humanity who takes advantage of this to slowly turn the tide. Not very realistic, but interesting nonetheless.
- yreg 3y agoPaxys thanks for the short story, I truly enjoyed that and it was also rather funny. Regarding the case for lowtech interstellar travellers: I can accept the idea that there is some symple physics trick to make a jump drive that we haven't discovered, fair enough. Just as in the story, there would also had to be a similar undiscovered trick for antigravity, since otherwise they have no way of getting to orbit. Can you however build a ship that can resist vacuum and provide life support with 16th century tech? I guess perhaps your species might be able to live in vacuum, needs only a bit of heat and doesn't need to breathe gasses? - - - Anyway, I’d like to recommend another book. High Crusade by Poul Anderson[0]. In the first chapter pacifist aliens land in 13th century England and get immediately massacred by the locals. Now the king has a starship. [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Crusade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Crusade
- TinyRick 3y agoThanks, will check this out
- Tommstein 3y agoI have bad news regarding the future performance of Raytheon and its stock if an alien attack fleet has come rumbling into the solar system . . . .
- pieter_mj 3y agoAliens are real. Aliens that spawn as a blurry instance on a US military base are not.
- throwaway743 3y agoPotentially LMT, material science companies, and companies producing anxiolytics.