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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.
They knew there would be time dilation. They literally discussed it just before they went down there. They just thought they could get it done in a few earth-years rather than decades.
I feel like those funky robots may have done some of the heavy lifting.
That implies some code monkey somewhere decided that feature didn't need a user notification!
Unless they run on a neural net or a genetic algorithm.
Remember when they dialed down the sass? Turns out that setting also affected physics notifications. "physicsassistant" - it was a typo!
They did know about the time dilation, though? They weren't surprised by the fact that there was time dilation, they just didn't fully grasp what the results would be.
Couldn't you use that in reverse to create a planet-destroying superlaser?
Actually, yeah… https://youtu.be/ulCdoCfw-bY
Hmm, this is about an exploit using a theory with much uncertainty about a theory with much uncertainty.
I personally don't think there's something like a singularity. It's just too ugly a workaround.