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What no one has seen before: new study simulates gravitational waves from failing warp drive (www.aei.mpg.de)

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[–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago (6 children)

The abstract does a poor job of explaining one of the primary motivations of this research: if Alcubierre drives can exist, and can be built, then it seems likely a sufficiently advanced alien species would have built them. We could therefore find them by detecting the drive failures associated with the hypothetical tech, something which is likely easier than actually building the drives ourselves.

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

Won't it be funny if it turns out WE'RE the most advanced alien species? Like, we're out here wasting time with SETI and this failed warp drive thing, when we should be concentrating on UNIVERSE DOMINATION!!!

[–] Spzi@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

While possible, it goes against the Mediocrity principle:

The idea is to assume mediocrity, rather than starting with the assumption that a phenomenon is special, privileged, exceptional, or even superior.[2][3]

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Everything is mediocre

Everything is blah, when you're part of a team

Everything is mediocre

When you're living in-between (the narrow ends of the Bell curve)

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