Smilodons.
The answer is to resurrect the smilodons.
(Failing that, maybe screwfly would help?)
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Ben Hardill
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Charlie Stross • •@Charlie Stross smilodons are cats. this plan must be approved and will not have any undesired side effect.
unless @Menhit the Menace finds out and is jealous, then scrap the plan, immediately.
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •@Charlie Stross wait a second. now that I think about it, don't you have a king over there?
kings are natural predators of deer, aren't they?
and deer hunts are a traditional way to, say, expedite a succession, right?
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Charlie Stross
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •@valhalla Hmm, I like the way you think!
Winter is coming and we should *certainly* send King Charles III, currently aged 76 and on chemo for (unspecified) cancer to the Highlands with a bow and arrow and a horse. He can come back when he's taken a large stag.
... And in the meantime, we'll be releasing the de-extincted smilodons and following them with a reality TV film crew (in a light tank, for safety, filming via drone)
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Charlie Stross • •davecb 🇨🇦
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •A female-chauvinist-pig band of my youth had a song that claimed that male humans were created as a stripped-down, high performance semi-human, for the specific purpose of fighting sabre-toothed tigers.
The refrain was
they're strong,
they're brave ...
they're stupid.
Bring back the tigers! All over the world!
Jaime Robertson
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Or get rid of the humans, and let the forest take over.
This also works as a reply to your previous post.
Not The LBC Guy
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