On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Tyler Durden wrote:
Well, I didn't say it would be easy. We'd definitely need to split up into teams...one to handle the alarm systems,
Teamwork is essential here. Maybe attract a lightning with a rocket on a wire[1], the induced current will do the job with the sensors around. Optionally annoy the sensors with spurious alarms until they get written off as unreliable[2]. Keep disabling the technicians that come to check/repair them[3], until the base staff either runs out of technicians or writes off the sensors. Technology can be a strength, but overreliance on it is a weakness. [1] I believe lightning researchers do this, in addition to having labs on tops of skyscrapers. See eg. <http://bat.nmt.edu/galeski/>. [2] US agents did it with sugar pellets shot at the windows of the Russian embassy in Washington, DC, during the thunderstorms that are frequent there. The vibration sensors were causing false alarms, so they were disconnected. Then one night the agents successfully penetrated the object. Same with rebels in Afghanistan attacking Russian bases. (Bruce Schneier, Beyond Fear, page 56: <http://www.granneman.com/personal/commonplacebook/security/bruceschneiersbeyondfear.htm>) [3] I think it was used during WW2. The comm wires were cut, then the soldier dispatched to check the failure was ambushed. Used frequently by guerrillas fighting Germans in the mountains.
one to handle the landmines,
Optionally just add couple more mines and then wait.[4] [4] As a classic joke says. A farmer had a pumpkin field. Neighbourhood boys were stealing them. One day, he put up a sign: "One of the pumpkin is laced with cyanide." In the evening, he found scribbled there: "Now they are two".
one to somehow fend off May's bullets.
History books are full of prior art. Or just drive a remotely controlled tank in. Or modify the strategy. As Sun Tzu says, the best battles are the ones won without fighting.
And then, even if we somehow capture May, I'd bet he's got all sorts of dead-man stuff like poison gas and whatnot. It'd be like a big game of D&D, not that any Cypehrpunk knows what THAT is!
It would be closer to a LARP.
And yeah, there's a good chance someone's not gonna make it. But think of it like this: Those genes were slowing down our species anyway.
The best fun often has the highest price.
The only problem is, what do we do once we're in? Throw a big-ass drinking, whoring Shriners-like party? (I say we need a bevvy of black hookers.) Break into May's survivalist supplies?
Don't worry. Look at the Iraq Desert Adventure planning stage. Who needs a post-victory plan?