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Re:Meltdown Proof-of-Concept by Skunkleton on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @03:39PM (#16109824)
> 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?

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Re:Meltdown Proof-of-Concept by logfromblammo on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @05:56PM (#16110969)
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.
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Re:Meltdown Proof-of-Concept by Skunkleton on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @08:09PM (#16111748)
Bureaucracy to the rescue!
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Re:Meltdown Proof-of-Concept by abritinthebay on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @08:52PM (#16111982)
This sounds like a new BlackAdder pitch...

"Sir, I have a cunning plan" "Does it involve that legion of rabid space weasels again?" "... maybe."

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Re:Meltdown Proof-of-Concept by Skunkleton on Friday January 12, 2018 @07:59PM (#16137619)
As long as I can retire to my great big turnip in the country when it is all over I am happy.
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