Escaping The Galaxy
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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How to Hide Spaceships
How do you make the getaway if an enemy fleet is coming your way? It helps to have a lead time and a known trajectory for them. Billions of moats of gas and dust, slamming into your at relativistic speeds are going to generate a huge amount of noise. A spaceship might carry such a system or be able to rapidly fabricate them in solar systems they were traveling to to ambush you in. But those might be very hard to use on the run because they begin shoved on by interstellar gas at the speed your ship moved. And even ignoring the force pushing against you and slowing you and the wear and tear on those detectors, both of which are immense problems.
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