365 Days of Drabbles: Day One Hundred

[jeriendhal]

For avanti_90: "The universe is an artificial system being analyzed for someone's PhD thesis."

Somehow this is appropriate for our 100th prompt. ;)

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He wasn't exactly an atheist. It was just he'd stopped going to church as soon as he'd left home, figuring God was a busy guy and didn't need him pestering Him.

He hadn't expected God would show up in his living room with a survey clipboard.

"So, the universe really is five thousand years old?" he asked the Heston-as-Moses lookalike.

"From Our perspective, yes. From yours it's been clocking a bit slower."

"And we were really made in Your image?"

"Simplified for simulation purposes, yes."

Ouch..

God readied his pen. "Anyway. Given a choice, what's your favorite plague, so far?"

Comments

[rix_scaedu]

Old age.

[harvey-rrit.livejournal.com]

Micropilosity.

[avanti-90.livejournal.com]

"So, the universe really is five thousand years old?" he asked the Heston-as-Moses lookalike.

"From Our perspective, yes. From yours it's been clocking a bit slower."

That's kind of brilliant.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :)

[selenite.livejournal.com]

I suddenly have sympathy for the villian from Implied Spaces.

[aldersprig.livejournal.com]

Oooh!

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

A novel that just goes to show how hard it can be to provided drama in a post-Singularity setting. :/

[stasia]

Oh yes, this. Wow.

Stasia

[selenite.livejournal.com]

Which is part of why the setting for my novel-in-work has outlawed SingularityTech.