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by natch 2428 days ago
So many options for sentence number two.

- The enemy stole the aircrafts, and after some drama in flight managed to land several of them.

- The enemy used remote control to force them to land.

- The enemy used coercive force to force our pilots to land them.

- The enemy captured them.

- The enemy shot them down.

- During a friendly event while we set our differences with our enemy aside and agreed to fly each other's aircraft at an airshow for some reason, we landed several of theirs, and they landed several of ours.

- There was a hearing mistake and "energy" (as in energy beam beamed by a UFO) was accidentally transcribed as "enemy."

- The writer is just screwing with us.

- The writer is not a native speaker of English, and they made a mistake and actually meant that the enemy boarded several of our (parked) aircrafts.

- The writer is creative with language and believes that it would be cute to say that when an enemy projectile struck one of our aircrafts, then the enemy has "landed" that aircraft as one would land men on the moon or land rovers (no pun intended) on Mars.

2 comments

- An ML algorithm from the future traveled back in time, writing specific SuperGLUE examples to poison AI research, thereby preventing the emergence of a competitive AI which would also master the secrets of closed timelike curves
Actually the algo was able to determine we exist in a simulation and perform meta programming by hacking the sim infrastructure (higher order dimensions of spacetime) and rewriting the future which to us appears that it traveled to the past.
> then the enemy has "landed" that aircraft as one would land men on the moon or land rovers (no pun intended) on Mars

Or perhaps as one would land a punch.