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May 27th, 2006, 10:09 AM
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Re: Philosophical scenario - A chance meeting
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narf poit chez BOOM said:
Baron Munchausen gets his choice of cookie, ice cream or cheese, for guessing the method they used in the book.
Hunpecked gets his choice of cookie, ice cream or cheese, for his...Perspective on it.
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What if the other race had set a self-destruct timer, or crippled their ship in some other way?
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Assume you have a 1kg squirrel
E=mc^2
E=1kg(3x10^8m/s)^2=9x10^16J
which, if I'm not mistaken, is equivilent to roughly a 50 megaton nuclear bomb.
Fear the squirrel.
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May 27th, 2006, 02:24 PM
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Re: Philosophical scenario - A chance meeting
That was what Hunpecked pointed out.
I don't think there is a safe option here - No matter what you do, you're going to have to roll the dice sometime.
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May 29th, 2006, 10:38 AM
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Re: Philosophical scenario - A chance meeting
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.....Of course with a little Intel and time both empires would learn the actual size of each other.....
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Oh, yeah. I can just see it happening in real life: A human in an environmental suit gathering sensitive information in a colony populated by bug aliens. 
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May 29th, 2006, 12:12 PM
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Re: Philosophical scenario - A chance meeting
Couldn't they just use a fancy costume to do that instead?
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May 29th, 2006, 02:09 PM
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Re: Philosophical scenario - A chance meeting
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Or follow you at the edge of his sensor range, presuming it to be larger than your sensor range.
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If their sensor range is that superior to our own, you can presume the rest of their technology would have a similar edge. If that's the case, you're screwed whatever you do if it comes to conflict. Peace might still be an option though!
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May 29th, 2006, 02:35 PM
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Re: Philosophical scenario - A chance meeting
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Couldn't they just use a fancy costume to do that instead?
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Wouldn't be done via fancy costume. It would be done with ships running silent, using passive sensors, possibly with something to cut down on how they look to various sensors. Ah, ship came from this angle and this angle and this angle....... communication came from this point and this point and this point.....
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