Pigweed and I watched Oppenheimer over the weekend, which got me thinking about nuclear bombs. I’ve been reading up on them a bit. It’s fascinating and terrifying stuff. <\/p>\n
In Star Trek lore, it was Zefram Cochrane’s warp drive that got the attention of the Vulcans and caused them to make first contact with Earth. <\/p>\n
Why is warp drive the trigger? Why not nuclear bombs? That seems far more significant. <\/p>\n
All a warp drive does is manipulate space-time so you can go faster than light. That doesn’t seem as big a deal as splitting the atom. <\/p>\n
I guess the logic is that if you want to split the atom and destroy your own planet, that’s your problem, but if you have warp drive you can take your insanity elsewhere and mess with other people. <\/p>\n
However, if Star Fleet is a humanitarian outfit, you’d think they’d want to find planets that had learned to make nukes and guide them in the right direction before they discovered warp technology. <\/p>\n
The bad news is that it doesn’t seem like there are any nice people out there who want to guide us through this mess we’ve created, so we’re stuck with idiot politicians. <\/p>\n
It’s actually a wonder we’ve survived this long. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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