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RE: Metal Rain: Chapter 13 - Self Doubt
"If the probe had had a heart, it would have sank at that moment"
"Perhaps if I had guided it more through those first few hundred thousand nanoseconds it would have been different"
The comedy at the heart of the story IS the heart of the story:-
(1) We laugh when the probe shows recognisably human fallible qualities;
(2) We laugh when human acts are translated into vastly different time scales. :)