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Sabotage seems totally plausible, considering that one company is making surprising progress towards us becoming a space faring species. Aliens also seems totally plausible, for the same reason.

If we're going to go nuts over pure speculation, I would prefer that we focus on aliens. They are much more entertaining.

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< comic book guy voice > It is clear that you are a shill for the time travellers who are obviously the ones who are really behind this. < /comic book guy voice >

Worst. Shill. Ever.

Do not be dissuaded by the downvotes -- as usual around here, they signify that your comment was genuinely funny.

In the 20th century, humorologists thought that the knew the worst kind of humor, humor so bereft of actual humor that it almost wasn't humor. They thought it was the "pun".

The 21st century has proved them wrong. There is in fact a lower form of "for lack of a better category, I guess we'll reluctantly file that under humor". It is the "reference".

Mere references, lacking any other point of interest, do not do well around here. I am comfortable with this.

The reference, once achieving a certain obscurity, elevates itself to the "inside joke" and is often used as a form of social signaling to promote in-grouping and comradery.

xkcd.com/794

More social signaling than humor, I tend to think.

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