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Not to mention the difficulty of hitting a planet-sized target at 99% of the speed of light from 5 light-years away. I'm pretty sure this would be vastly more d
by titanomachy 2y ago
Not to mention the difficulty of hitting a planet-sized target at 99% of the speed of light from 5 light-years away. I'm pretty sure this would be vastly more difficult than anything we've ever accomplished as a species.
- Intralexical 2y agoPlus with those same resources you could probably build a solar-system-sized passive interferometric radar swarm, and get decent warning time on any relativistic launches. 0.99c of blueshift coming from a specific star's direction? Weird. Shoot a couple relatively slow BBs at it, and the projectile will vaporize itself around the Kuiper Belt. Poor guys. They've now announced to the universe that they're an aggressive threat to all life around them…