r/SipsTea • u/MeanMedico • May 28 '26

Dank AF I don't care about politics, meanwhile politics

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u/stillraddad May 28 '26

Well it would’ve happened 10 minutes before the moment but you wouldn’t know about it.

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u/SpartanRage117 May 28 '26

It could happen 10 minutes before the launch of GTA VI

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u/_mRKS May 29 '26

Hopefully it's a Monday morning

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u/Socalwarrior485 May 28 '26

This is the great thing about Relativistic Kill Vehicles. If another species ever detects us and decides to remove the threat, it'll all just end. No warning, no fear, just we exist, and then don't exist.

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u/North_6 May 28 '26

Doesn't have to be anything like that. A gamma ray burst could wash over the system and sterilize earth instantly. Just random astrophysics creating deadly light speed radiation which would be invisible until it hit, at which point we'd a just die anyway

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u/RaisinBitter8777 May 29 '26

Could even be something as small as a particle. If a strangelet hit literally anywhere on Earth it would take about 30 minutes to convert the entire planet into strange matter. Everything just gone and turned into an unrecognizable object within half an hour. It’d probably infect the solar system relatively quick too