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"It is done. My instruments have ceased picking up any trace of extra heat emissions from the Sol system."
The Prime Speaker's words fell into a sort of resigned silence. It wasn't that we hadn't known to expect them - over the last 24 hours, we had gone from observing over a thousand spaceborne objects to less than a dozen. We had been there, watching them go out one by one, unable to help with all our advanced machinery.
Man's final century had been an era of unparalleled change. The development of artifical intelligence had fostered an explosion in the speed of scientific progress, plunging dozens of technologies into the hands of men before society could properly adapt to them.
Cloning and the ability to copy minds like computer programs. Nanobots that could reconstruct a human body from a single strand of DNA. Weapons that could devastate planets.
Weapons so well shielded that they could travel into the sun and disrupt the fusion reactions going on in there. Make our sun, the giver of all life, go out prematurely.
Weapons that landed in the hands of fundamentalist doomsday cults before most of the populace even know such things existed.
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The Prime Speaker's words fell into a sort of resigned silence. It wasn't that we hadn't known to expect them - over the last 24 hours, we had gone from observing over a thousand spaceborne objects to less than a dozen. We had been there, watching them go out one by one, unable to help with all our advanced machinery.
Man's final century had been an era of unparalleled change. The development of artifical intelligence had fostered an explosion in the speed of scientific progress, plunging dozens of technologies into the hands of men before society could properly adapt to them.
Cloning and the ability to copy minds like computer programs. Nanobots that could reconstruct a human body from a single strand of DNA. Weapons that could devastate planets.
Weapons so well shielded that they could travel into the sun and disrupt the fusion reactions going on in there. Make our sun, the giver of all life, go out prematurely.
Weapons that landed in the hands of fundamentalist doomsday cults before most of the populace even know such things existed.
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