{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Lost in Space gets points for laughing at the idea of every spaceship having a self-destruct mechanism and loses points for...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/648785370225491968/", "html": "

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Lost in Space gets points for laughing at the idea of every spaceship having a self-destruct mechanism and loses points for every spaceship having a recognisable\u00a0\u201csonic signature\u201d that can be\u00a0\u201cheard\u201d across space, or possibly the other way around.

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Self-destruct is by analogy to naval scuttling, which any ship can do \u2013 make it not watertight and it\u2019ll sink. The thing is that while any spaceship might be able to vent its atmosphere and become uninhabitable this wouldn\u2019t particularly render it and its contents inaccessible to others.

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admittedly it would if that process was sufficiently explosive, which many forms of decompression are.

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Yes, and if you designed a spaceship such that there was a way to trigger that process, it would constitute\u2026 a self-destruct mechanism.

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