It is unlikely that there is--or has ever been--any technical civilization
in this galaxy capable of reaching 0.1C as evidenced by the fact that they
are not here.
Bill
On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 9:02 AM Redacted sender monsieurboo for DMARC <
dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This new paper has sparked some interest by the mainstream media. I
recognize it's a bit beyond what we'd normally consider the purpose of our
forum -- but then, "amateur" is a relative term that takes its definition
largely from the scope of the particular civilization in which it's
defined. And perhaps there's a civilization out there in which harnessing
and focusing energy of a magnitude 500M greater than that of Sol is the
equivalent of making KNSB motors in the garage.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1701.01109.pdf
My conclusion is that the authors' equations may well demonstrate that
this *can *be done, but they offer nothing more than handwaving about *how
*it could be done. Lacking any details of the engineering, I'll have to
leave it in the category of "then magic happens" for now.
Cheers,
Mark L.
