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Cold steel - Fey defenses

 
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Looking at the Dr Beeching railway cuts of the 1960‘s with a slightly different perspective, I can’t but see that as lowering the UK’s national defenses against the Fey.

I mean, every tin-pot town or village used to have a branch line, overlaying the UK with a ready made grid, quarantining the threat into manageable areas, allowing occult military resources to cleanse areas and then move on, Kitchener stylee.

I will have to write to Charles Stross and point out this glaring omission, when the nurse gives me back the crayons.

NB I did finally get around to making the “Crank” stamp, at least in digital form - Exhibit A

not_morrison_rm, Dec 30 2017

Dr Beeching before and after http://www.bbc.co.u...4d7decc4c3b8803.gif
[not_morrison_rm, Dec 30 2017]

Exhibit A https://drive.googl...yU5SDjV-PsiL2rlWm48
[not_morrison_rm, Dec 30 2017]

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       A matrix of rowan trees and red thread might achieve the same result at lower cost, and also be claimable as a carbon sink.
pertinax, Dec 30 2017
  

       // cleanse areas and then move on, Kitchener stylee. //   

       "Einsatzkommando" ....   

       Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, of Khartoum and of the Vaal in the Colony of Transvaal and of Aspall in the County of Suffolk, was far too much of a gentleman to do a "proper job" (i.e. there are no survivors, not even bacteria, and in most of the areas no vegetation will ever grow again).   

       The chap you want is General Curtis LeMay or his nearest available equivalent -   

       "We must be willing to continue our bombing until we have destroyed every work of man in North Vietnam if this is what it takes to win the war."
8th of 7, Dec 30 2017
  

       Definitely a zombie virus solution for the remnants of humanity. Trains are also good at carting stuff away.
wjt, Jan 01 2018
  

       If we're all zombies, then who's driving the trains?
pertinax, Jan 01 2018
  

       Secret Nazi space androids.   

       // trains are also good at carting stuff away //   

       Ah yes, "Deutsche Reichsbahn, ghettos cleared while you wait. Anything from one dissenting cleric to an entire racial or religious minority- no job too large or too small. Ask about our new" cattle truck" super-economy service … like Ryanair on tracks"
8th of 7, Jan 01 2018
  

       So Hilter received the premonition advice of how to deal with a global pandemic but deeply and woefully misinterpreted?
wjt, Jan 01 2018
  
      
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