Some dialogue from something I've been trying to say for a while - but I amn't quite sure how. It was something I'd tried to have Ford say to Shinji a long time ago - about how in Fenspace it helps if people believe you're able to do things. It might even have been a comment on influencers before influencers became a thing - and then the HDD it was on headcrashed.
This is just one side of the conversation.
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“This is probably the biggest engineering project in space. The amount of work needed to do it is - immense - and it all has to be done right, on time, on schedule and be near perfect.” “The people who’ve to do it have spent the last year being bitched at by grandstanding BNF’s on Venus whenever something didn’t go right. And that was before the reactor blew.”
“Well, that went public, and exactly what we were afraid of happened.” “The whole universe took the chance to gloat about the idiots who blew up a reactor, rather than cheer the heroes who stopped an accident from becoming a disaster.”
“Handwavium gives you what you expect - and if you’re dealing with a group of people who’ve started to expect failure - when even the rest of the universe doesn’t believe you can do it - what’s that going to get?”
“All that negativity is going to poison any attempts to create any handwaved solution.” “You handwave something expecting it to fail, and what’re you going to get?”
“We can make this work. Because it’s reality - it doesn’t care about how you feel, or how popular you are, or what you believe - if it’s done right, it’ll work.”
This is just one side of the conversation.
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“This is probably the biggest engineering project in space. The amount of work needed to do it is - immense - and it all has to be done right, on time, on schedule and be near perfect.” “The people who’ve to do it have spent the last year being bitched at by grandstanding BNF’s on Venus whenever something didn’t go right. And that was before the reactor blew.”
“Well, that went public, and exactly what we were afraid of happened.” “The whole universe took the chance to gloat about the idiots who blew up a reactor, rather than cheer the heroes who stopped an accident from becoming a disaster.”
“Handwavium gives you what you expect - and if you’re dealing with a group of people who’ve started to expect failure - when even the rest of the universe doesn’t believe you can do it - what’s that going to get?”
“All that negativity is going to poison any attempts to create any handwaved solution.” “You handwave something expecting it to fail, and what’re you going to get?”
“We can make this work. Because it’s reality - it doesn’t care about how you feel, or how popular you are, or what you believe - if it’s done right, it’ll work.”
I love the smell of rotaries in the morning. You know one time, I got to work early, before the rush hour. I walked through the empty carpark, I didn't see one bloody Prius or Golf. And that smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole carpark, smelled like.... ....speed.
One day they're going to ban them.