One second is preposterous! It’d take at least a minute to get up to relativistic speeds; keep in mind it’ll have to build infrastructure as it goes along, and it’ll start off using human-built tools which aren’t capable of such speeds. No way it can build such powerful tools with human tools in the space of a second.
I’d be surprised if it managed to convert the surface of the planet in less than 10 minutes, to be honest. It might get to the moon in an hour, and have crippled our ability to fight back within 20 seconds, but it’s just intelligent; not magical. Getting to relativistic speeds still requires energy, and Xonium still needs to be made of something.
One second is preposterous! It’d take at least a minute to get up to relativistic speeds; keep in mind it’ll have to build infrastructure as it goes along, and it’ll start off using human-built tools which aren’t capable of such speeds. No way it can build such powerful tools with human tools in the space of a second.
I’d be surprised if it managed to convert the surface of the planet in less than 10 minutes, to be honest. It might get to the moon in an hour, and have crippled our ability to fight back within 20 seconds, but it’s just intelligent; not magical. Getting to relativistic speeds still requires energy, and Xonium still needs to be made of something.
The actual bootstrapping takes months, years or even decades, but it might only take 1 second for the fate of the universe to be locked in.