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She said her polite good-byes, wished the general secretary;s family well, added under her breath that she hoped they’d all get tertiary syphilis, and slammed the handset down so hard that it cracked. === Crow said, “You’ve been leaning on that theory pretty hard, the ‘they haven’t, so they won’t’ theory.” === Anyway. It’s a deadman circuit. If it doesn’t get a picosecond ping from at least one of the kill triggers each second, it’ll go off. === Perhaps centuries from this moment, space explorers would discover a mysterious, dimly lit ship, abandoned by its crew for reasons long forgotten, a Flying Dutchman of the Early Space Era. === There is a plastic coating on page fourteen that will be … === Yeah. So if you decide to cook up a little revolution … who do you trust?