[–] bell-cot 2y ago ↗ Cool...but I wouldn't recommend any worrying about it, nor bothering to purchase an insurance policy against it.
[–] h2odragon 2y ago ↗ I didn't see much discussion of why anyone thinks a lower energy vacuum state might exist or be reachable.A rouge planet traveling at 3/4 light speed might suddenly hit Earth, too: but we haven't any real reason to suspect such and event, do we?Is our need for "the world will end!" boogeymen really so dire? [–] bell-cot 2y ago ↗ > Is our need for "the world will end!"...Consider the popularity (and profitability) of fictional works in which that threat looms large. [–] LargoLasskhyfv 2y ago ↗ I'd expect anything asteroid-, moonlet-, moon-, planetlike traveling at 3/4 lightspeed to glow rather intense, thus not suddenly hitting, because visible long before impact.
[–] bell-cot 2y ago ↗ > Is our need for "the world will end!"...Consider the popularity (and profitability) of fictional works in which that threat looms large.
[–] LargoLasskhyfv 2y ago ↗ I'd expect anything asteroid-, moonlet-, moon-, planetlike traveling at 3/4 lightspeed to glow rather intense, thus not suddenly hitting, because visible long before impact.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 21.2 ms ] threadA rouge planet traveling at 3/4 light speed might suddenly hit Earth, too: but we haven't any real reason to suspect such and event, do we?
Is our need for "the world will end!" boogeymen really so dire?
Consider the popularity (and profitability) of fictional works in which that threat looms large.