Hmm … around 50 spheres. And they are traveling very fast, and humans are moving (quickly) to meet them. So at galactic distances, one degree shift can move an object off its path by quite a distance at the end of its travel. Now, if they were aiming at the sun, the sun’s own gravity might compensate for that one degree, but … limiting it to that one degree? That might not be necessary. I mean, a galactic game of billiards might be called for. Even a few degrees of angle and maybe a shift in speed, due to some debris impacts, and they might just join the Oort Cloud for a while. And who knows, maybe they then could be harvested for some raw materials, and then actually become useful to humanity as a whole. Just by sticking some solid rocket motors to them pointing in the (mostly) correct direction, with later, less approximate burst-engines attached later in their journey, perhaps. The nice thing about relativistic distances, is that,when throwing rocks, one has to be really really accurate, and if you miss, even by the littlest amount, it is a huge miss on the other end.
@@christopherg2347 ah, but if they have weapons, defenders, or steering then they can be engaged, and possibly diverted that way. And if they just have steering, and are fairly invulnerable, without weapons or defenders, modifying the steering ports so the thrust is angled differently, and giving them a push, so the steering ports have to be engaged might be a successful path. Especially if you, say add to the effectiveness of the steering by adding fuel, or redirecting the thrust so they billiard off of one another … or maybe using the steering portals as breach points by, again adding something like copper thermite to the steering ports, and then giving them a shove, and watching that oscillate out of control …
@@nela9994 The problem I foresee is simply their number. 44 pellets sounds like a scattershot approach, but, like you said, on relativistic distances, the tiniest error becomes massive. I have to assume that all the shots are important, some manner of self-correcting system, maybe using some sort of Spooky Action at a Distance style maneuvering(?). Knocking one out of alignment wouldn't matter because the rest will snap it back into place. Therefore, you need to simultaneously disrupt all of them. That or idea which specific one(s) will destroy Earth and disrupt it just enough to get a near miss. Granted, sounds like even a near miss will cause enough space-time disruption to functionally destroy Earth from the gravity wells, alone, which could also be reason for their volume of fire. Alternative idea, build a second Jupiter to soak the hit, but that is going to take a lot of resources and probably screw up Earth's orbit as well.
Knowing the “why” is good. Saying “No” beforehand, and then knocking at their door to ask them why they are (unsuccessfully) throwing their trash in our back yard is a second step. It does make you wonder, when there are these lovely garbage compactors out there (black holes) that they just have to only vaguely get in the vicinity of, to be accurate in their disposal, that they choose to throw things down that very narrow tube that would be impact on our Earth (or our sun), but that ‘s secondary after the “No”. Maybe still secondary after the “quit it.” as well.
Humanity freaked out over a radio show about an alien invasion. (War of the Worlds.) Imagine what's been transmitted out into the universe if they thought our entertainment was news.
There better be a part 2 dammit, I'm invested!
Interesting angle. I'm pretty sure no-one wants to be cooped up with me for 50 years. I've barely been able to myself. (62 but still)
One of the biggest positives about this channel is HUMAN NARRATOR, instead of those terrible AIs.
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Hmm … around 50 spheres. And they are traveling very fast, and humans are moving (quickly) to meet them. So at galactic distances, one degree shift can move an object off its path by quite a distance at the end of its travel. Now, if they were aiming at the sun, the sun’s own gravity might compensate for that one degree, but … limiting it to that one degree? That might not be necessary. I mean, a galactic game of billiards might be called for. Even a few degrees of angle and maybe a shift in speed, due to some debris impacts, and they might just join the Oort Cloud for a while. And who knows, maybe they then could be harvested for some raw materials, and then actually become useful to humanity as a whole. Just by sticking some solid rocket motors to them pointing in the (mostly) correct direction, with later, less approximate burst-engines attached later in their journey, perhaps. The nice thing about relativistic distances, is that,when throwing rocks, one has to be really really accurate, and if you miss, even by the littlest amount, it is a huge miss on the other end.
That assumes they can't steer back on course themselves.
And don't have weapons or defenders.
@@christopherg2347 ah, but if they have weapons, defenders, or steering then they can be engaged, and possibly diverted that way. And if they just have steering, and are fairly invulnerable, without weapons or defenders, modifying the steering ports so the thrust is angled differently, and giving them a push, so the steering ports have to be engaged might be a successful path. Especially if you, say add to the effectiveness of the steering by adding fuel, or redirecting the thrust so they billiard off of one another … or maybe using the steering portals as breach points by, again adding something like copper thermite to the steering ports, and then giving them a shove, and watching that oscillate out of control …
@@nela9994 The problem I foresee is simply their number. 44 pellets sounds like a scattershot approach, but, like you said, on relativistic distances, the tiniest error becomes massive. I have to assume that all the shots are important, some manner of self-correcting system, maybe using some sort of Spooky Action at a Distance style maneuvering(?). Knocking one out of alignment wouldn't matter because the rest will snap it back into place. Therefore, you need to simultaneously disrupt all of them. That or idea which specific one(s) will destroy Earth and disrupt it just enough to get a near miss. Granted, sounds like even a near miss will cause enough space-time disruption to functionally destroy Earth from the gravity wells, alone, which could also be reason for their volume of fire. Alternative idea, build a second Jupiter to soak the hit, but that is going to take a lot of resources and probably screw up Earth's orbit as well.
@@quinnbell2388 I know, it just … doesn’t make sense. Maybe a McGuffin for the story, but … needs more thinking through.
Great story; Excellent narration! So what's the problem, just phase the Earth out of this universe! 😏
From the sounds of it, they don't (yet) have the tech to do so.
That's quite risky at this point so they're evacuating some of the test site before trying it.
A mix of The Forever War and the Three Body Problem. Works for me but I'd like a conclusion if they're going to do time jumps as part of story.
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4:00 I thought he said "Force Alpaca".
Someone should write that up.
Their just want to cuddle
Interesting story. My question is WHY they decided to destroy the Earth.
Knowing the “why” is good. Saying “No” beforehand, and then knocking at their door to ask them why they are (unsuccessfully) throwing their trash in our back yard is a second step. It does make you wonder, when there are these lovely garbage compactors out there (black holes) that they just have to only vaguely get in the vicinity of, to be accurate in their disposal, that they choose to throw things down that very narrow tube that would be impact on our Earth (or our sun), but that ‘s secondary after the “No”. Maybe still secondary after the “quit it.” as well.
Humanity freaked out over a radio show about an alien invasion. (War of the Worlds.) Imagine what's been transmitted out into the universe if they thought our entertainment was news.
@ wasn’t there a “The Orwell” episode about that? How they traded human entertainment for humans captured as zoo animals?
They probably bought into the 'Dark Forest' idiocy.
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