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VectorSigma
Jan 20, 2004

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Hodgepodge posted:

I mean we just had a movie about the answer being "experts who can figure out how,"

imo if some aliens came all this way and didn't bother to use the plentiful amount of cultural context available in our broadcasts to decipher our language before they get here, i say gently caress em. what kind of two-bit operation can't decode our meat flappings with little more than a barely detectable increase in the energy consumption of their mothership's processor core? oh, you want us to crawl inside your wack rear end horrorship and look at you like idiots for hours waiting for you to loving say something? gtfo with that poo poo

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VectorSigma
Jan 20, 2004

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Hodgepodge posted:

The first thing we'll be doing if a species with the technology to reach us is sitting outside our gravity well is learn how to call them "sir."

Gravity wells are funny things where objects entering them magically have a bunch of extra kinetic energy and it turns out that a bunch of mass with a bunch of kinetic energy hits one of our cities it vaporizes.

That's not even using some fancy weapon from the brains that figured out interstellar travel, that's dropping some rocks.

the spacetime warp of a planetary gravity well is negligible if you can already drive mass to relativistic speed for interstellar travel - just collect all your poop for the whole journey and release it before your deceleration impulse so millions of tons of feces impact the moon at .58c and whatever remains of the human race carries genetic memory of how much they got owned just in time for you to show up.

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Jan 20, 2004

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rudatron posted:

nothing masters

is this the title of a nine inch nails b-side collection?

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games & theory did BA

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