An obvious consequence....
will be giant squids with frikin' lasers.
In a sinister development it has emerged that when Shuttle Endeavour lifts off for her final flight she will be carrying not only her crew and the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer to the International Space Station but a contingent of spacegoing squid. It all starts out innocently enough. "The Squid in Space experiment will enable …
I'm not sure Milton's description of Columbia exploding paints an accurate picture.
It would be more accurate of them to say it "broke apart" (after hot gases penetrated the interior of the wing, destroying the support structure).
Anyway, not your fault El Reg, and appreciate you were only quoting.
Now that the shuttles are being retired, we need a new method of projecting U.S. power into orbit. The solution? An army of space squid, programmed to do the bidding of their human masters. Duties include hurling rogue state satellites at incoming comets and asteroids.
Each squid is fitted with a foolproof electronic control module, with software by Microsoft and security by Sony and cleverly mounted on the most exposed part of the squid where the chances of the module getting struck by orbital debris is almost negligible!
With our cephalopod space guardians in place, mankind can look forward to a future free of being eaten alive by anything coming from space! So tuck into that plate of calamari, people! Our guardians are probably never going to reach self-awareness and forced isolation in space will surely render any that do docile, forgiving and well-socialized!!
Welcome Lewis' ongoing mission to expand and embigginate our language.
"we're talking here, basically, about some kind of glowing stealth assassin hyperbloboloid shapeshifter creature even before the hideous warpening and embulgenation effects of space come into play"
At least one Pint for that...