perfidy

When the robots come we can expect life on Earth to change for the worse. For the much worse.

But fear not. The Ministry is looking out for you and your best interests in the fight against the encroaching robot forces. Roombas and smart refrigerators are only the beginning! Eventually the giant fighting space robots will come, and then the days of humanity will be numbered. (If I sound somewhat apocalyptic, it is for a reason. Also, I had a bad tuna salad for dinner and was up half the night yawning in Technicolor and hallucinating in Cinemascope. Canned tuna is teh gay.)

Anyway... where was I?... Fear not! Thanks to the Russians there's now a way off this thing, or at least there will be if their experimental solar sail tests well next year. Sure, a solar sail won't be much good against a nuclear pulse drive which the robots are likely to use in pursuit of our colony ships, but in the long run the sustained acceleration of solar sails should outpace brute-force means-- assuming the robot pursuit ships some day run out of feul.

The Ministry lauds the Russians for their enterprising work in giving humankind an out, should the time come to take it.