\u201cAh Harkness, come in.\u00a0 Happy Holidays.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cThank you sir.\u00a0\u00a0 And you sir.\u00a0 Might I have a quick word?\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cWell Doris asked me to do some shopping on the way home\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cThis won\u2019t take a moment sir.\u00a0 I\u2019ve got some good news.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cOh good.\u00a0 Always room for good news.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cYes, you know the North Korean satellite?\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cWell we\u2019ve shot it down.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe have?\u00a0 I didn\u2019t know we could do that.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cNo neither did we actually sir , but we gave it a shot and\u2026right between the eyeballs. \u00a0First time.\u00a0 We were shocked,\u00a0 And happy obviously.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cWell, \u00a0well done.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cThank you sir.\u00a0 Only one problem.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cYes?\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe satellite.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cWhat about it?\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt\u2019s falling.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cTo the earth. \u201c<\/p>\n
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\u201cWell gravity\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cQuite.\u00a0 And it probably has a nuclear source on board and it\u2019s plummeting and it\u2019s going to hit in about half an hour.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cOh dear.\u00a0 Where?\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cNot in America<\/em> sir.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cOh good, wow that would be\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cYes, it would. However, it is going to hit\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cSydney.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cAustralia?\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cOh dear.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cUhm.\u00a0 Most unfortunate.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cCan we shoot it down?\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cWell that\u2019s what we\u2019ve done sir.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cNo, can we shoot it down again?\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cChances are about 2 billion to one.\u00a0 Against.\u00a0 It\u2019s moving so fast you see.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cI see.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cSo we have two choices, we tell them, and there\u2019ll be panic.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cRight.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cAnd then everybody\u2019ll blame us.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cOr\u2026?\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cWe don\u2019t tell them.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cBlame the Koreans.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cHow long have we got?\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cA few minutes,\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cThose bloody<\/em> Koreans.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cAh Harkness, come in.\u00a0 Happy Holidays.\u201d \u201cThank you sir.\u00a0\u00a0 And you sir.\u00a0 Might I have a quick word?\u201d \u201cWell Doris asked me to do some shopping on the way home\u2026\u201d \u201cThis won\u2019t take a moment sir.\u00a0 I\u2019ve got some good news.\u201d \u201cOh good.\u00a0 Always room for good news.\u201d \u201cYes, you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u201cExactly.\u201d<\/p>\n