Hacker News Reader

I wonder if there are some aliens looking at this, and wondering if another advanced civilization has put this together (just like we were wondering with ʻOumuamua). To me James Webb looks definitely like alien technology, if it manages to pass 50 deployment stages, depending on 178 deployment mechanisms... The team working on this did an incredible job! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUAvXYW5bmI&t=195s

View on HN

i'm sure they might when the light reaches them, given the context of planets in our neighborhood, probably in a few hundred/thousand years?

not if they know how to bend it ;-) I was told that even the speed of light is hackable!

For some light speed hacking porn I'd recommend reading Cixin Liu's In Remembrance of Earth trilogy. It has a few deus ex machina moments but overall it's just pure fun.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com