That "alien magastructure" again

[josephpalazzo]

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The other side of that is that it would take us millennia if not longer, barring some really amazing technological or scientific breakthrough, to ever reach the alien star in question. So a race of aliens 2 billion years ago shoots a bowling ball to destroy an infantile race that would not encounter the aliens for millennia?

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Or maybe the Aliens got bored and were in great need of some distraction...

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Or maybe the Aliens got bored and were in great need of some distraction...

Always something to do with one's time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_Castle

[josephpalazzo]

Always something to do with one's time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_Castle

Those fucking magnets... how do they work?!?

[stromboli]

Idle minds are the devil's workshop......

[Baruch]

Those fucking magnets... how do they work?!?

Mostly electron magnetic moment line-up ... but nobody knows what an electron is ... except some say it is a naked ring singularity ... but the ring would be smaller than the Planck length, so it is hard to imagine.

[PopeyesPappy]

Not a mathematician or physicist and I understand that talking about the location of electrons (or location of anything at the quantum scale) doesn't really make sense, but the classical electron radius is about 2.8179x10^-15 meters or 174,369,604,900,800,000,000 (may be off by a few zeros one way or the other...) Planck lengths.

Planck lengths are really really fucking small.

[TomFoolery]

Mostly electron magnetic moment line-up ... but nobody knows what an electron is ... except some say it is a naked ring singularity ... but the ring would be smaller than the Plank length, so it is hard to imagine.

I'm pretty sure it was an Insane Clown Posse reference. View at about 1:54. A lot of deep questions here. Also pay attention to the following lyric which proclaims, "And I don't wanna talk to a scientist/Y'all motherfuckers lying, and getting me pissed."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-agl0pOQfs

[Baruch]

Not a mathematician or physicist and I understand that talking about the location of electrons (or location of anything at the quantum scale) doesn't really make sense, but the classical electron radius is about 2.8179x10^-15 meters or 174,369,604,900,800,000,000 (may be off by a few zeros one way or the other...) Planck lengths.

Planck lengths are really really fucking small.

And naked singularities are even smaller, but Puritans still don't like them ... they prefer singularities to be covered up ;-)

[josephpalazzo]

Idle minds are the devil's workshop......

Ten factoids about Einstein, one of them being that he loathed science fiction ( #8 on the list)

http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/19980907140525data_trunc_sys.shtml

[Baruch]

#4 ... you need glasses ;-)

[pato15]

We may be no threat now. But give us a couple thousand years, and we may develop enough technology to become dangerous. I could see someone wanting to take us out now, before this happens, especially given the viciousness of humankind.

[josephpalazzo]

We may be no threat now. But give us a couple thousand years, and we may develop enough technology to become dangerous...

It's already happening. It's called "Climate Change by human activities"...

[Gawdzilla Sama]

We may be no threat now. But give us a couple thousand years, and we may develop enough technology to become dangerous. I could see someone wanting to take us out now, before this happens, especially given the viciousness of humankind.

Maybe not that long. Rescue Party, by Arthur C. Clarke.