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## [Unsong] The six beanie baby solution

* Author: u/dspeyer  *India's External Intelligence Agency**
* URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/rational/comments/5bk1zo/unsong_the_six_beanie_baby_solution/
* Score: 10

* Created: 2016-11-07T03:38:55

### Post:

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### Comments:

> **u/Chronophilia** [+9]  *sci-fi ≠ futurology* (11 hours later)
> 
> Probably not secure enough. Even telepathy can be intercepted by the likes of the Other King. Beanie Baby portals are only useful if they're absolutely secure - it costs the likes of the Other King or the Drug Lord very little to make a heptagram of their own, if they know the arrangement (and can set up a trap to catch a teleporting Cometspawn). The Beanie Babies are rare and difficult to get hold of at a moment's notice, which is why the system works at all, but even so Jianxiang must expect a trap whenever she uses this method to get around.

> **u/None** [+3]  (an hour later)
> 
> It's not entirely clear that hardline internet access would be a virtue inside of NORAD, and more complex ways of maintaining access to other people would work (wifi or 3G, for instance, appear to not be available).

>> **u/Frommerman** [+1]  (3 hours later)
>> 
>> There's gotta be a way to communicate over vast differences if you are a Cometspawn though, right?

>>> **u/None** [+5]  (4 hours later)
>>> 
>>> I don't know, Comet King seemed to lightning bolt around to have conversations, so nothing easier than that appears to have been available (at least 30 years ago or thereabouts).

>>>> **u/wren42** [+7]  (11 hours later)
>>>> 
>>>> man, I have read none of this fic, but just from this conversation the world seems wack.

>>>>> **u/Frommerman** [+3]  (11 hours later)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cosmic pun battles to the death.

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