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by OscarCunningham 1816 days ago
> "land this particular rocket safely within 15 minutes"

This one becomes especially dangerous after the 15 minutes have passed and it begins to concentrate all its attention on the paranoid scenarios where its timekeeping is wrong and 15 minutes haven't actually passed.

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Ooh true, that could generate some interesting scenarios. "No, it's the GPS satellite clocks that are wrong, I must destroy them before they corrupt the world and cause another rocket to land at the wrong time!"