/sci/ - Science & Math

The more pertinent question is why are we still alive when it would be so easy to conquer the galaxy with only the technology we have now.

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>>2155099
Yes the mothers of those dead berserker probes will be in tears. Grow up, make comparisons that are actually logical. Violence is not the best solution to to every problem, but it is the best solution to aliens.

Or would you rather they get us first(see pic)?

>>1929926
>That is utter foolishness. If they are really that stupid then they deserve to die.

In a universe were superluminal travel cannot exist, any species that creates even the most primitive for of relativistic vehicle and self replicating machinery is an immediate and lethal threat to all other forms of life.

Because of the rate at which intelligent life can spread, you pretty much have to attack without provocation and with even knowing if there is anyone to attack. As previously stated probes with a maximum practical travel velocity of .1 C could visit every stellar system in the galaxy in as little as 250,000 years.


And if you programmed these probes to seek out life bearing exoplanets and crash into them an top speed, which for nuclear pulse propulsion is .15C if you burn all the fuel and don't plan on decelerating, you could purge all the life bearing planets in the galaxy and keep yourself safe from aliens forever.

If you programmed those same probes to accelerate toward any repeating, terminating radio signal and crash into the source body you could all target intelligent species. For that matter you could have them detonate there bomb stockpile before impact to scatter relativistic shrapnel cones at space habitats.

And that doesn't even account for the danger of other species colonizing everything and taking all your resources. Basically your only real option to keep yourself safe is to attack with berserker probes first and hope than you can get everybody before they launch their own. So you need at least a million year lead on your galactic war to ensure your own survival.

The very power and abilities that make intelligent life so enduring make it dangerous to all other life. So even differences between species aren't needed to justify xenocide. Strike first, without warning, without mercy, without remorse.