{"id":10156,"date":"2006-03-04T20:42:24","date_gmt":"2006-03-05T01:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2006\/03\/04\/10156.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:54:46","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:54:46","slug":"the-lady-or-the-tiger-oh-i-sho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2006\/03\/04\/the-lady-or-the-tiger-oh-i-sho\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lady or the Tiger? Oh, I should mention that the Lady is a ninja assassin sworn to kill you&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here&#8217;s a little science fiction discussion question for y&#8217;all, Gentle Readers. Given your druthers, which ludicrously implausible scientific breakthough (slash production breakthrough slash whatever) would you prefer to see announced and implemented immediately?\n<p>(a) something that would make it possible, for a reasonable expenditure, to inspect pretty nearly everything shipped in and out of our borders, making it pretty damn near impossible for any chemical, biological, nuclear or even large-scale explosive weapon or armament to be brought into the country without putting a stop to international shipping generally, or\n<br>(2) a transmat device, making more-or-less instantaneous transfer of physical objects anywhere around the globe cheap, and of course making it impossible to stop smuggling of any kind, particularly of weapons of mass destruction.\n<p>Just wondering. I&#8217;d take (2), myself, but that&#8217;s me.\n<p><I>chazak, chazak, v&#8217;nitchazek<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a little science fiction discussion question for y\u2019all, Gentle Readers. Given your druthers, which ludicrously implausible scientific breakthough (slash production breakthrough slash whatever) would you prefer to see announced and implemented immediately? (a) something that would make it possible,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17696,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10156\/revisions\/17696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}