Friday, 9 September 2016

The Failsafe Failsafe



The universe doesn’t seem to like anyone trying to destroy it.

Whenever someone develops a spell or artefact that could unmake existence, it always seems to overload or have some other fatal flaw, invariably taking out the person using it. If there’s no way it can fail, it does.

So, twisted-logically, if you make a device that can erase everything, then put in a tiny self-destruct mechanism that requires a nondescript key that you then bury halfway round the world, that should satisfy the universe. And really, what are the odds it’ll be found and used?

Greater than zero.

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