Provided that’s even how they work
But what they hell do I know, I drive a forklift for a living not do science things with other science people at the science place
The whole thing is theoretical, but the more tools we have on our belt to look for intelligent life in the universe, the better.
That’s what it means to specialize.
You can detect a forklift before most other people can.
Of course it’s assuming that’s how advanced propulsion tech works. But it is useful to try to detect, just in case that’s how it actually turns out to work, no?
And if we detect something interesting, like a potential warp bubble collapse, well, that also gives us a strong hint that it’s possible, helping us to direct research in the right path.
Detecting techno-signatures of aliens would be super useful for us.
I propose detecting atmospheric anomalies induced by their infinite improbability drives.
Pretty hard to detect. But… probably easier than finding the petunias I guess.
just look for hyper evolved salamanders, that’s what happened in voyagers warp experiment gone wrong
It did not. That never happened. No one has ever gone beyond Warp 10. It’s infinite speed. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
Then why did a hologram of Janeway tell a bunch of kids she once was a salamander?
You’d lie to kids about evolving into a salamander and having sex with your former flight control officer who is also now a salamander and having little salamander babies after traveling faster than infinitely fast if you could too. Don’t say you wouldn’t.
Sure, sure, you think looking for an intermix chamber of antimatter and matter that is not 1:1 is easy. What happens if they are simply leaking plasma from their nacelles? Or what if the ship is trying to steal your tech by luring an engineer onboard to repair “damaged” systems?
Or what if their warp drive uses an artificial singularity?
We need to just work on making our own. Then the Vulcans will find us.
