Re:Meltdown Proof-of-Concept
by Skunkleton on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @03:39PM
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> The only way to make it make sense is add that we also know there is an entire spacefaring group of mercenaries whose entire hobby and/or job is deliberately throwing asteroids in Earths general direction.
Maybe there is, but they are hilariously incompetent?
Re:Meltdown Proof-of-Concept
by logfromblammo on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @05:56PM
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Nah, they're really far away, and there's an accumulated round-off error in their distance conversion between bloits (used by the client) and metrons (used by the subcontractor), so they're shooting at a target a quarter of a light-year away, and won't realize it for another 500 years.
Re:Meltdown Proof-of-Concept
by Skunkleton on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @08:09PM
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Bureaucracy to the rescue!
Re:Meltdown Proof-of-Concept
by abritinthebay on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @08:52PM
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This sounds like a new BlackAdder pitch...
"Sir, I have a cunning plan" "Does it involve that legion of rabid space weasels again?" "... maybe."
Re:Meltdown Proof-of-Concept
by Skunkleton on Friday January 12, 2018 @07:59PM
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As long as I can retire to my great big turnip in the country when it is all over I am happy.
For a start - this is hardly a remote possibility when we already have proof of concepts like the linked repo.
Secondly - your analogy makes no sense. The only way to make it make sense is add that we also know there is an entire spacefaring group of mercenaries whose entire hobby and/or job is deliberately throwing asteroids in Earths general direction.