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Everyone's dead now (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[-] [email protected] 83 points 6 months ago

I liked the concept but man those nerds literally couldn't think one step ahead

[-] [email protected] 55 points 6 months ago

The other problem is the ship signal they traced would have been frequency shifted by the same amount as the time dilation. They would have had to compensate for that to even detect the signal.

It was 1 hour : 7 years I think. So about a factor of 60,000. So if a ping was once a second it would be once every 42 days. And if it was a 1MHz transmission it would be at about 17Hz.

So they somehow realized the once a second 1MHz signal was now a every 42 day 17Hz signal at 1/60000 the power. But didn't realize that there was time dilation involved.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago

I feel like those funky robots may have done some of the heavy lifting.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

That implies some code monkey somewhere decided that feature didn't need a user notification!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Unless they run on a neural net or a genetic algorithm.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Remember when they dialed down the sass? Turns out that setting also affected physics notifications. "physicsassistant" - it was a typo!

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