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[Unsong] The six beanie baby solution
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Author: u/dspeyer India's External Intelligence Agency*
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URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/rational/comments/5bk1zo/unsong_the_six_beanie_baby_solution/
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Score: 9
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Created: 2016-11-07T03:38:55
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u/Chronophilia [+5] sci-fi ≠ futurology*
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] *
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] *
There's gotta be a way to communicate over vast differences if you are a Cometspawn though, right?
u/None [+7] *
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 [+6] *
man, I have read none of this fic, but just from this conversation the world seems wack.
u/Frommerman [+3] *
Cosmic pun battles to the death.