“Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.” -- Jeremiah 51:53
Lasers decommissioned most space stations
first, debris from which would take down
several hundred satellites in slow motion,
"We aren't armed, we're here for research pur-!"
eventually depressurizing the
last greenhouse-lab where taikonauts
had managed not just to survive but keep
the scheduled observations coming... Then,
a lethal piece of human femur pierced
first bulkhead wall then taikonaut, & last,
but certainly not least, their oxygen
supply.
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After the destruction of the fighter-
interceptor shuttles Nautilus &
Rabbit in the Moon, the gift kept giving
valued customers
dead zones
真糟糕
as satellite upon satellite shook & sheared:
AT&T & Telecom lost 4
& 9 respectively as bits of steel,
glass, bone, & composite whizzed past, zikked through
computers, cameras, sensors, & -- of course --
those solar panels, sending still more clouds
still more directions in the course of days.
Then, in the course of weeks & months, a North
Korean spy satellite went down -- or, more
precisely, upside down & all around --
which took a NASA magnetometer out
of commission, plus a European
weather satellite in the bargain. Hundreds more
streaked down like burning brains. Though EMP
pulse weaponry might have prevented this
abrupt, unsettling end to orbital
traditions, if it had been generally
deployed, the military brass still thought
in terms of operatic smithereens.
Besides, the EMP emitters were
to be alongside the torpedo bays --
a bike next to a thousand SUVs,
a tidal turbine next to nuclear
reactors -- so we know how that turns out.
The post-War Soyuz capsule with Jane
Kennedy & Evgenia Boroshin
that was supposed to represent Peace/Mir
as usual didn’t make it through the cloud.
How did we manage to blockade ourselves?
Although we had unlimited expense
accounts made out of malnutrition, bridge
collapses, even gravel roads, it all
went wrong! The moral of this blank verse is
the first Star War would likely be the last.
