A slice-of-life story with the oh-those-wacky-researchers factor played for chills? I like it.
+1.
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The level of stupidity depicted here - trying to be played off as plausible - is mind-boggling; it's the same ramifications as if a massive, hostile force was attacking a Foundation facility.
"Sir! We've got ten minutes before they get here and STEAL OUR SHIT."
"Who *caaaaaares, Larry? They're not anomalous or anything."
The shit would still get out either way, and at any rate, the efforts taken to contain shit would be massively hampered with the entire world's infrastructure fucked up the ass sideways.
Also, apparently every one of the "doctors" in the room, as well as the O-5s that pluck strings that control governments are unaware that a water impact would be worse than a land hit.
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Oh, definitely agreed there, Photo. Upvoted with glee.
And I suggest Pho for lunch.
I love it. Really shows just what those higher ups are like. Bartender, get an upvote for this sonuvabitch article over her.
It's weird how the Indian Ocean Tsunami has become a running gag on this site: everyone wants to claim credit for it. I like it. :3 +1
I should thank Dr Gears for allowing me to use his character of the same name - the story cried out for him by name, as the best one to deliver the necessary exposition (and because he'd be a good pick to head a meeting like this one, cool demeanor and all). Definitely tempted to work in references to one or two other notable researchers (Clef, Kondraki, Kain, and Bright would be easiest), but of course I'd want their permission before doing so. They should also feel free to write themselves in (either by inserting references or by adding attributions to some of the unattributed speech), since I do want this to be a picture of the top echelons of the Foundation.
If anybody here actually knows anything about the scientific aspects of this story that conflicts with my writing, let me know so I can fix whatever it is I got wrong. I don't know much about orbital mechanics, nor about how damaging an impact would actually be (part of why I didn't specify the size of the asteroid), so any recommendation for improvement there would be most appreciated.
I actually wasn't trying to claim the Indian Ocean Tsunami - if anything, there could be some horror in the "not again!", but it's not like people wouldn't notice a major impact event. The original plan had been to just say it was getting dropped in the North Pacific, but I realized that for the Foundation's purposes the Indian Ocean could work as well, and would pose less threat to Foundation vessels, so I decided to leave it ambiguous where they end up dropping the asteroid.
And Bright is always free to use. That's really why we have Senior Staff.
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I love me some of the classics. More tales like this pls. PLS.
Too bad it's a tad more ambitious than a lot of people want to go for…
if your reading this your gay
So this is why "Things what caused the Indian Ocean tsunami" is on the cliché list, huh?
This is indeed a silly article. A water impact of an asteroid big enough to kill 3 billion would be much worse if it landed in water than on land (we're talking tsunamis over a kilometer tall hitting every coastline for thousands of kilometers, and a cascading series of dozens of other tsunamis produced by the backwash from the same, and weather fuckery on a Biblical scale on account of the billions of liters of water vaporized on impact), and even though I accept the idea of the Foundation having a moon base, the idea of it having nuclear armament just beggars belief, as does the idea of an O5 being completely blasé about a mass extinction event and the deaths of half the world's population because he has bigger fish to fry, until he has to be TOLD that some of that half of the world might be involved in Foundation business.
Also;
The senior staff relax their grip on the various weapons they were fingering
Because everyone brings firearms to an office meeting with the O5 Council.
Downvote.
I think it is very smart to bring weapons to a meeting - one could be suspicious, there could be someone spying on the meeting - you never can tell!
Upvote.
This article literally places the entire resolution of the story on bad science. If I get to downvote articles for poor use of science, a tale like this isn't exempt either. I'll be jumping on the 'hell no' bandwagon.
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