You’re letting the current state of technology influence your opinion of what could be. You hear “ICBM” and imagine an unavoidably fast object. But imagine a missile that flies at its target, then slows down before hovering. It adjusts its position overhead to avoid any interventions. It just. stays. there… After some time, people get used to it. Arguments quietly begin over whether the missile and its owner are actual threats. You begin an astroturfing campaign bolstering belief that your hovering, unexploded missile is a great leap in technology. This causes the arguments to grow louder and more intense. Then, you buy a social media platform, and convince people that it’s the most effective way for them to yell at their enemies. People begin loudly arguing on your platform; a heated schism forms. People on either side of the argument pay money to amplify themselves, advertisers pay to inject themselves in the middle, and brokers pay for info on all of your contributors, while you build the most complete database on PII ever. People who support your missile rabidly purchase and invest in more of your products to “trigger” their opponents. People against your missile purchase products that quietly generate profits for you on a less aggressive but wider scale. Finally, once you’ve hoovered up enough of everyone’s wealth, or grow bored, you detonate the missile. Just so you can feel something for a brief moment.

um, you know the landing softly is optional. lithobreaking is totally free and as easy as it gets. no one can stop you from lithobreaking. and an icbm usually doesn’t… land…