• Gormadt
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    901 year ago

    Provided that’s even how they work

    But what they hell do I know, I drive a forklift for a living not do science things with other science people at the science place

    • Flying SquidOP
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      471 year ago

      The whole thing is theoretical, but the more tools we have on our belt to look for intelligent life in the universe, the better.

      • @[email protected]
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        211 year ago

        Unless we go the way of Independence Day or Three-Body Problem. At this point though I’d also probably say…

        spoiler

        Please conquer us.

        We’re sooooo fucking stupid.

    • @[email protected]
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      131 year ago

      That’s what it means to specialize.

      You can detect a forklift before most other people can.

      • Gormadt
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        201 year ago

        I can literally build a Jenga tower with standard size Jenga blocks using a forklift (we have little competitions every so often)(unfortunately I can’t show pics or videos otherwise it’d be a security incident)

        I got that shit on lock

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      Of course it’s assuming that’s how advanced propulsion tech works. But it is useful to try to detect, just in case that’s how it actually turns out to work, no?

      And if we detect something interesting, like a potential warp bubble collapse, well, that also gives us a strong hint that it’s possible, helping us to direct research in the right path.

      Detecting techno-signatures of aliens would be super useful for us.

      • Gormadt
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        1 year ago

        And of course there’s the sheer awesome factor of if it turns out to be the case

        Could you imagine being the dude who makes that discovery? Prepare to have shit named after you for centuries