/sci/ - Science & Math

go home Bear Grylls
You've had enough piss to drink

>a literal shitpost

>>9176010
You would manufacture alternative materials that could take their place, or fucking import them because you do not need to manufacture literally everything ever on a mining base designed to export metal for constructing shit

Like here on earth, importing specific supplies is very common place, for specialization is the grand thing space bases will do

>>9082010
>bring shotgun to fight jedi
>win because they can't hit all of the pellets at once

>>9040777
depending on distance, and probability
if a species is close enough that the missile would work and stop them from going space fairing, they're probably close enough that there would be plenty of other nearby races watching them do the act
if you are far away, that sublight projectile will take so fucking long to reach the target, that the intended victims would be halfway done a dyson swarm by the time you blow their planet up, and by then, they might have edited the orbital speed and tilt of their world, making the missile miss it completely, but allowing the victim to know exactly where the fuck it came from

by firing, either every single race that previously chose not to commit genocide, would immediate bomb the shit out of you because you just made yourself into a massive threat to everyone with your willingness to genocide those that had done you no ill, or your intended target survives and comes to claim some scalps for that attempted murder
thus, killing aliens as they are found just fucks you over, because everything you do is before a live audience, and they might not like the show if you're a faggot

this entire thread is just one big shitpost