Wed, 21 Apr 2004
Satire is dead
I'm going to be busy for the next little wee while, making a
first pass at redrafting Accelerando into its final
novel-shaped form.
No matter how weird I try to make my fiction, I can never quite
come up with anything as bizarre as the real world, though. I
mean, assuming this report in Strategypage is
actually not an April Fool's Day piece that came out a couple
of weeks too late:
In order to comply with EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)
regulations, and at a cost of about $5.2 million per ICBM, the
rocket motors on 500 Minuteman III missiles will be replaced
with new ones. These rockets will emit less toxic chemicals
when used.
... Thus, if the Minuteman III ICBMs have to be used in some future
nuclear war, their rocket motors will not pollute the
atmosphere. EPA regulations do not apply in foreign countries,
so no changes are being made to reduce the harmful
environmental effects of the nuclear warheads.
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