Scientists Propose New Way to Find Aliens: Detect Their Failing Warp Drives

If an extraterrestrial warp drive collapses, we might be able to sense the resulting gravitational waves from Earth.

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“Greetings, we’ve been trying to reach your civilization about the extended warranty on your Class 7 interstellar exploration cruiser…”
- We noticed that your warp drive has been failing more frequently...
humans encountering an alien: wow show us the REPLICATOR tell us about your WARPCORE where is the STAR GATE

space trucker who left home 79 years ago and only comes out of cold storage for two days every 10 years: what the goddamn
Because of course they have shitty warp drives, they keep crashing on Earth, they almost never land smoothly on the planet.
- The ones that crash are just the tip of the ice berg. The ones that land and abduct and evade our notice must be huge. Think how many flights there are around the world vs how many crashes. Earth must be a busy research/holiday destination for aliens.
  
  Holiday. You think a civilization capable of FTL would need to physically probe an organism to study it? Hell no. Probing is a huge laugh. Heck, we do it to each other, constantly.
So they're not looking for eddies in the space-time continuum then?
- Ah. Is he. Is he.
  
  ..
  
  Er, who is Eddy, then, exactly, then?
  
  I assumed €$ eddies
"the subspace equivalent of loud bangs and black smoke" ~Iain M. Banks

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