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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 8090376" data-attributes="member: 177"><p>Dude, we are talking about a culture that can to FTL jumps. They are <em>NOT</em> using chemical reactions to power ships of any sort. So, no huge plume of brightly burning gas to be seen by a telescope. There's probably a nice quiet ion drive back there - little reaction mass used. Cheap. Low thrust, low emissions. Gravity does most of the work for you.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Um, dude. The thing that actually killed the dinosaurs had no reaction mass at all. It just <em>fell</em> from the outer solar system to the inner system. Yes, it takes time. You lack patience, grasshopper?</p><p></p><p>Okay, so the Earth itself is moving at about 30 km/sec. You can pop a rock out of hyperspace <em>dead still</em> right in its path, and have that much relative velocity. <em>WHAMMO!</em></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>So, what you are saying is... you, here and now in 2020, have the computer power on your own laptop sufficient enough to do that job. So, thank you for proving that the computing power for guidance isn't a barrier....</p><p></p><p>This will not be prevented by anything as simple as "where do you get the velocity" or "math is <em>hard</em>!" as if our aggressors are frelling Barbie. Which is why I ask why it doesn't happen.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 8090376, member: 177"] Dude, we are talking about a culture that can to FTL jumps. They are [I]NOT[/I] using chemical reactions to power ships of any sort. So, no huge plume of brightly burning gas to be seen by a telescope. There's probably a nice quiet ion drive back there - little reaction mass used. Cheap. Low thrust, low emissions. Gravity does most of the work for you. Um, dude. The thing that actually killed the dinosaurs had no reaction mass at all. It just [I]fell[/I] from the outer solar system to the inner system. Yes, it takes time. You lack patience, grasshopper? Okay, so the Earth itself is moving at about 30 km/sec. You can pop a rock out of hyperspace [I]dead still[/I] right in its path, and have that much relative velocity. [I]WHAMMO![/I] So, what you are saying is... you, here and now in 2020, have the computer power on your own laptop sufficient enough to do that job. So, thank you for proving that the computing power for guidance isn't a barrier.... This will not be prevented by anything as simple as "where do you get the velocity" or "math is [I]hard[/I]!" as if our aggressors are frelling Barbie. Which is why I ask why it doesn't happen. [/QUOTE]
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