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Old 10-07-2018, 09:00 AM   #18
johndallman
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Cambridge, UK
Default Re: Urban Legends for THS

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Originally Posted by Astromancer View Post
... or stumbling onto real conspiracies like the Martian Triads.
Somewhere in a Triad drinking den...

"OK, so we ended up with a legitimately registered freighter and a whole pile of nanostais kit. I have a stupid idea for making money from those."

"First, we build a fake Noah's Ark on a mountain in one of the developing seas. That's not too hard. We give the mountain an extra name which, when you take the vowels out and transliterate it into Hebrew, comes out at the same consonantal Hebrew letters as the "Arrat" in the Bible. We hack Wikipedia so that name has been there for a few decades."

"We then advertise trips to Mars for seeing the truth of Noah's Ark, in the US religious lunatic fringe. We have a memeticist who knows that world, don't we? We sell our trips as protecting them from getting the brain implants that are normally done to everyone who goes to Mars, and take deposits. We'll get a load more deposits than people who can actually come up with full fare. We actually ship those people, in nanostais, and show them our Ark. They get a lot more memetics to reinforce their beliefs, and to start raising money for the Noah Foundation, whose money we collect. How about that?"

"Entertaining idea, but it's still your round."
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