[ExI] Fermi question, was is a FTL drive a dream . . .

[Stefano Vaj]

On 20 December 2011 22:43, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 08:26:08PM +0100, Stefano Vaj wrote:
>
> > Could we ourselves really make us blatantly visible to a civilisation the
> > other side of Andromeda even if we considered it a top civilisational
> > priority?
>
> Best bang for the buck would be lasers. You can easily outshine
> the Sun in narrow enough spectral bands.
>

But you should know where to point it at, right?


> Dimming a galaxy would not be any more difficult than dimming a
> single star.
>

Due note taken, if ever I end up finding Andromeda too shiny... :-)

Seriously, interesting stuff.

-- 
Stefano Vaj
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