The Galactic Corps had relentlessly pursued the evil anti-civilizational organization of Carpone from one end of the Milky Way to the other.\u00a0 They had methodically identified and rooted out each level of Carpone until they had finally located the heart of the organization.\u00a0 This galaxy spanning criminal conspiracy was headquartered on a planet called Sflprugm.\u00a0 Sflprugm was as hard to approach as it was to pronounce.\u00a0 All the space within a two-parsec radius had been planted with detection devices meant to alert Sflprugmians of any approaching danger.\u00a0 Only the Corps\u2019 ultra-advanced spy rays had allowed them to study Sflprugm from a safe distance and so size up the enemy.\u00a0 And they were a worthy opponent.\u00a0 The defensive screens that protected Sflprugm were beyond impregnable.\u00a0 No imaginable fleet of battle cruisers could hope to breach the screens.\u00a0 And the Sflprugmian fleet was as large as and as deadly as the Corps\u2019 own.<\/p>\n
To solve the problem of conquering the Sflprugmians the Corps turned to the greatest living scientist of the age Dr. Balbus Blabbnoy.\u00a0 His work on trans-dimensional ballistics was required reading at the Academy.\u00a0 He was tasked with calculating the trajectory of an anti-matter planet from the Psi-Gamma dimension and forcing it into our universe with just the correct entrance and momentum needed to collide with Sflprugm.\u00a0 It was assumed that much of their fleet would be destroyed with their planet.\u00a0 But the Corps\u2019 fleet would be assembled to mop up the remnants.<\/p>\n
Admiral Bowser planned out the exact coordinates for the fleet\u2019s convergence.\u00a0 It would appear out of hyperspace about five billion miles from Sflprugm; safely beyond the radius of destruction but close enough to pursue the remaining vessels.<\/p>\n
Dr Blabbnoy would be on the bridge of Admiral Bowser\u2019s flagship; The Superponderous and when zero hour arrived, he would throw the switch which would trigger a sub-ether wave that would activate a device in Psi-Gamma that would cause a sub-atomic generator to generate a worm hole that would translate the anti-matter planet into our space-time with devastating results for Sflprugm.<\/p>\n
Balbus was on the bridge and Admiral Bowser noticed how extremely tired the scientist was.\u00a0 He was mumbling something under his breath that the Admiral thought sounded like, \u201cWas it X15<\/sup> or X-15<\/sup>?\u00a0 Now the Admiral had never gotten past high school algebra but even to his non-mathematical ears this didn\u2019t sound promising.<\/p>\n When the clock ticked down to zero Dr. Blabbnoy screamed, \u201cX15<\/sup>!<\/strong>\u201c and slammed the button.\u00a0 For a few seconds nothing seemed to be happening.\u00a0 The sub-space screens failed to show any irruption in the space near Sflprugm.\u00a0 But while the navy was watching their screens Dr. Blabbnoy was looking out the front window of the ship and that was where he saw the irruption.\u00a0 The missing anti-matter planet was about five hundred miles from the flagship and heading toward it and the rest of the fleet with about twenty seconds before impact.\u00a0 All he could think to say was, \u201cX-15<\/sup>!<\/strong>\u201c<\/p>\n Suffice it to say that this was not the finest hour for the Corps or human civilization or even computational science.\u00a0 But it was one of those examples from history of exactly the danger in not checking your work.\u00a0 Or even more importantly having someone else check your work.\u00a0 But most certainly it taught us to never trust anyone with a name as ridiculous as Balbus Blabbnoy with almost limitless power.\u00a0 How could it not be a disaster?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Galactic Corps had relentlessly pursued the evil anti-civilizational organization of Carpone from one end of the Milky Way to the other.\u00a0 They had methodically<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[288,1289,1263,4],"tags":[168,265],"class_list":["post-35449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-fiction-by-me","category-stuff-that-personally-interests-me-miscellaneous","category-sff","tag-humor","tag-science-fiction"],"yoast_head":"\n