Originally Posted by
WillCAD
I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. Maybe he had gone on vacation, had a death in the family, some big project grabbed all of his work time, or had some personal issues outside of work, or some combination of the above.
Ross's last post in this thread was July 23, and his last post on FT was July 24. That's over three weeks without a peep from him, and any slack I had been willing to grant him has now evaporated. He's gone, and the Great Experiment has come to a stuttering halt like a starship missing components from it main transwarp computer drive.
That'll teach me to be cautiously optimistic.
Do you even understand basic science? A starship with a broken warp drive can travel at nearly the speed of light on impulse power. So that isn't a proper analogy to use to describe the Great Experiment.
He hasn't had time for us, but he did have time, a few weeks ago when somebody accidentally brought a gun on an airplane, to yap about the Twenty Layers, evidently failing to realize that once somebody brings a GUN on an airplane, all the layers have already been penetrated. The only thing that kept somebody from being killed is the fact that the person who brought the gun on board (like the thousands of people who bring in explosive cupcakes, water bottles, and snowglobes) didn't want to hurt anybody with it. In light of the attentiveness and competence of the TSA, "lack of desire to hurt anybody" is the only effective layer of protection, but if Ross had admitted that, he would have to admit that there is no need for the TSA.