To be fair, the droplet wasn’t exactly a bumper car. It could ram and destroy several ships before your human reaction time could tell which way it went. It went so fast it could pass through a ship leaving a hole behind and white hot metal and it could turn on a dime at full speed.
It was definitely badass, an excellent ‘inscrutable monster’ type of foe.
I’ll say though, the droplet was so far ahead of humanity that it didn’t matter what they were prepared for. The droplet could’ve just as easily been a guided projectile (which it was) and it wouldn’t have made a difference.
Makes you think, why didn’t they put a cadaver in there? Like a dead human, preserved for the alien lads to have a proper look at. Surely there would be volunteers down for donating themselves after their death.
200 kph fastball takes 310 years, given your probable age being >17 and a life expectency of smth in the 70s, I doubt that you have the ability to confirm that you can…
WolframAlpha is a very fancy calculator you can essentially plug almost anything into and get a step-by-step guide to solving the equation. I believe it can do much more than that, but that’s what most people use it for.
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