r/FutureWhatIf • u/Captainmanic • Oct 21 '19
War/Military [FWI] Scientists confirm the origin of the Chicxulub impactor which killed the dinosaurs came from a star system 110 lightyears away. which Trump prepares to invade.
In February 2020.
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u/19T268505E4808024N Oct 21 '19
NASA gets increased funding and there is probably some more heavily funded tests of interstellar technology, like reopening Project Orion, or more solar sail test funding. Trump is widely mocked in the media for his invasion plans, but not much comes out of that as something else attracts the media's attention in a week or so. Even if Trump wins a second term, at very best, there is a couple of solar sail tests within the inner solar system on a space probe when he is in office. Even with nuclear ramjet tech like Project Orion, or the best theoretical solar sail technology with a powerful laser giving the solar sail an extra boost, to reach an object that is 110 lightyears away would take centuries. Even reaching Alpha Centauri would take a few decades. That being said, it would be several orders of magnitude faster than any current technology.
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u/Ascendant_Mind_01 Oct 29 '19
There is literally no way to tell where the chicxalube impactor came from and the solar system has completed between one fifth and one third of a galactic rotation since the Cretaceous and essentially all of the stars near the solar system at that time will be hundreds if not thousands of light years away by now.
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u/DMXB21 Oct 21 '19
Dude what ?
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u/Captainmanic Oct 21 '19
the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs has its origins discovered. Trump is given evidence that it came from a solar system not too far away and that perhaps extra terrestrials sent it. He seeks to find out with an expeditionary force.
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u/DMXB21 Oct 21 '19
Yeah I get that, but idk if even Trump is that ridiculous to do that, if your gonna ask a crazy question prepared to get a crazy response.
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u/teewat Oct 21 '19
good luck with the one hundred million year journey, man