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[–] riskable@programming.dev 76 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Jokes on us: Because of the gravity issue, alien life on such planets jumps right to stargate technology.

"They spent almost a thousand years fooling around with rockets!"

[–] thenextguy@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Uhh, one stargate doesn’t go anywhere.

[–] Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You can accelerate it into space at g forces which would liquify living beings, perhaps?

[–] grue@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Using what?

(Remember the premise of this subthread is that they're doing this instead of rockets.)

[–] KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Bah, Stargates are just propaganda from the rocket first civs.

There is no need to send a gate in advance, just use your favorite teleportation mechanic.

[–] binarytobis@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Just frisbee those things in random directions until one works.

[–] thenextguy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I’d say they stand a whelks chance in a supernova of that succeeding.

[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago

that's why you communicate via radio waves to other life in the area and build a network

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Waddayamean a « ro-ket »? You guys don’t use the three seashells system for liftoff?

[–] Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago

Haha he doesn't know how to use the three sea shells.