[abritinthebay]

I think you're being harshly down-voted without people explaining why.

For a start - this is hardly a remote possibility when we already have proof of concepts like the linked repo.

Secondly - your analogy makes no sense. The only way to make it make sense is add that we also know there is an entire spacefaring group of mercenaries whose entire hobby and/or job is deliberately throwing asteroids in Earths general direction.

[Skunkleton]

> The only way to make it make sense is add that we also know there is an entire spacefaring group of mercenaries whose entire hobby and/or job is deliberately throwing asteroids in Earths general direction.

Maybe there is, but they are hilariously incompetent?

[logfromblammo]

Nah, they're really far away, and there's an accumulated round-off error in their distance conversion between bloits (used by the client) and metrons (used by the subcontractor), so they're shooting at a target a quarter of a light-year away, and won't realize it for another 500 years.

[Skunkleton]

Bureaucracy to the rescue!

[abritinthebay]

This sounds like a new BlackAdder pitch...

"Sir, I have a cunning plan" "Does it involve that legion of rabid space weasels again?" "... maybe."

[Skunkleton]

As long as I can retire to my great big turnip in the country when it is all over I am happy.