Chapter 1090: Write the general trend of civilization

Whatever the cause of the war, the war itself is unjust and a brutal act of destruction.
G-stars have their own glory and mission, and humans also have things to defend.
Both sides are making the highest level of dedication for their own camp, burning their lives, just to win more opportunities.
The loss of the G Star Fleet was particularly heavy. It was really bad news from ear to ear, the most brilliant in my eyes.
Friends ship continuously sends farewell telegrams, and wishes the survivor Wu Yunchang Long to complete the mission.
The violent disintegration and thousands of fires symbolized the end of glory. Although the mission could not be achieved, it was still extremely glorious. Because every death is a share and a cover.
Atmospheric friction caused the inside of the giant ship to shake violently. Not only did the ship bear the damaging warning of damage, but more and more scarlet parts on the intuitive ship display screen were stimuli.
The captains knew that their ships were dying, their own downsizing was dying, or they were dying right away, or they were rushing to repair them.
What can they do now? It can only take a state of 120 points, control the battleship, and concentrate on the mission until it succeeds or dies.
So inside the G Star Fleet, it is also tragic to the extreme. The stubbornness of advancing heroically in the course of destruction is shocking and weeping.
But these cannot solve practical problems.
The actual problem faced by the G-Stars now is excessive losses.
In other words, intrusion is blocked.
Human fighters and missiles, like waves of suicide bees, disintegrate the fleet of G-Stars at high altitudes.
The fleet of G-Stars is like a cigarette that meets an invisible wall. The front end is constantly squeezed, the paper is broken, and the tobacco is scattered. The invisible death blockade will cause death if you cross the line.
The G-star must make a choice in a few seconds. Is it so hard to continue, hoping that the cigarette will successfully break the invisible wall, or try other means?
This is really the final choice between victory and defeat.
I ca n’t know if Heaven is a thought, but if I make a bad choice, I can only go to hell, and so many sacrifices become worthless.
In the end, the fourth commander-in-chief of the fleet had been ordered to drop bombs at high altitude!
Zhao Wenrui's most worrying thing happened. People on the G star felt hopelessly victorious and began to go crazy, throwing disaster-grade weapons at extremely high altitudes.
And on the way to the march, the G-stars analyzed the geographical structure of the earth. Therefore, disaster-grade weapons are very purposeful, including the ice sheets of permafrost glaciers in the North and South Arctic, the glaciers of Greenland Road, cracks in the crustal plates, the famous super-large active volcanoes, dormant volcanoes, and some earthquake-prone zones with fragile rock disks. .
Of course, it also includes human super-large urban clusters, and densely populated areas.
Super interception, super rescue, about hundreds of disaster-grade weapons were dropped at the same time, any one can cause a huge disaster.
The next step is to do everything possible to intercept. Ordinary fighters arranged by the alliance to patrol their airspace are almost the main interceptors. With the support of Milano ’s intelligence, they know how to fly, where to fly, and when to attack.
Most of the fighters do not rush, and very few fighters have the opportunity to intercept, but the attack window is only about 2-5 seconds. If you miss the opportunity, you will miss it.
The people of the world have entered the stage of prayer.
This time it really depends on the face.
Zhao Wenrui also sighed, after all, he still entered such a stage.
Next is the moment of destiny. Whenever a natural disaster-grade weapon is successfully intercepted, it will exchange countless people with excitement and hugs, and every time the interception fails, it is heart and weeping.
In fact, the dust settled in less than 10 minutes.
The overall results are still gratifying. Yellowstone has not erupted, and people in the northern hemisphere do not have to enjoy the massive volcanic ash haze similar to nuclear winter brought by the monsoon. The gap between the Asian plate and the Pacific plate has not been hit hard. People in the pots can cheer them out of the risk of Lu Shen, and the sticks can also cheer.
Then the north and south poles succeeded in part, so in the brilliant ice-blue explosion, a large number of glaciers melted.
Greenland ’s interception was completely unsuccessful. There will probably be no permanent ice caps on this big island, but the sea level will rise further.
The interception in areas prone to earthquakes off the coast of South America was also unsuccessful, so the following is not only a local tsunami, but also a global wave of tsunami.
The interception of the Los Angeles metropolitan group is half successful, so the metropolitan group with the largest population and the largest population (with a large number of Mexicans) is basically abolished.
The scene is very grand, but unlike the giant nuclear explosion, the mushroom cloud goes directly up to the sky, blowing the clouds and the like, the G-star ’s catastrophic bomb is more controllable, and it shows that there are not many virtual heads, but similar to the core fireball The area is wider and secondary damage like shockwaves is more powerful.
Countless buildings, high-rise buildings are shattered and blown away in a bright blue light that is not too dazzling, and then it is a super storm-like energy impact. Under this impact, the high-rise buildings are like a flesh and then a skeleton. First, everything on the wall was torn and blown away, then all kinds of interior, and finally the reinforced concrete frame, the bad luck was that the three curvatures were completed, and the better ones went to half, one half, one half, so It also looks shocking and varied.
As for people, in this level of destruction, people are not really prominent, they seem very small, even if all the blood is splashed somewhere in an instant, it will be blown dry, and even somewhere will be stripped into pieces, so Not at all. The corpses are mixed with other shredded garbage, which accounts for a relatively low proportion of the overall garbage. Therefore, unless you plan a little bit afterwards, just simply glance at the disaster site, and you will feel that this is a no-man's land. It's just the city that's finished.
There is also the difficulty of the Asan family, mainly because their population is really large, and there are several cities with tens of millions of people, like Mumbai, which did not survive this time.
To put it bluntly, all countries are as much as possible to protect their own homes as much as possible, and like Sansan, the number of interceptions is rare, and Asan himself has nothing to do with it. He ca n’t even send some fighters to heaven. They are already playing on the island to survive and play very well, the camp is a two-footed jackal.
In general, the pack of jackals will not cause any animal tide, because there is no interest pursued by the two-legged jackals in the camp, and their own low-end near primitive society is also working.
The civilized people in the camp are too out of place with the two-legged jackals, so staying outside must bear the risk.
For example, the fair-skinned people in Asan's family are only a relatively small part of the entire ethnic group. The Asian blacks outside like to seize this type, use it repeatedly until it is unusable, and then slaughter and eat meat. The internal organs of the viscera seem to be the best offerings of some religious rituals newly resurrected.
The African black uncles are happier this time, giving the impression that they are on another planet and the whole process has nothing to do with it. Even the global tsunami that followed, their losses were minimal.
The main reason is that although there is no shortage of harbours there, the emphasis on population centers is not as exaggerated as in developed countries. Especially after the capital evacuation, the port cannot support so many people, so naturally it can only enter the land for food.
And like Britain, France, Japan and South Korea, the later, the more abnormal the sea logistics. There is really too much to circulate.
Therefore, the latter suffered a great loss in the global tsunami.
The Tokyo metropolitan area has become Venice, Venice has become Atlantis, San Francisco staged the water-filled Golden Mountain, and the Los Angeles metropolitan area was first bombed and washed, and was washed away by the tsunami. Its ruins have already followed the {future water The tone of the world is very good.
Coastal cities in other regions are also devastated. Asia ’s four wastes have continuous coastlines. Even the original islands are large islands. At the same time, there are many people on the coast. The population distribution structure of the central mountains and dense forests. In natural disasters, the loss is extremely high. huge.
However, the mentality of the people in the four waste countries has been completely trampled into the mud, so after the disaster, they seem to be a little more vibrant. All kinds of garbage pickers and corpses are sold, and those who sell garbage corpses are very lively.
The plague erupted immediately afterwards, because there are many dead people, and it is easy to become a plague when it rots, and the tropical areas like the four waste countries are even more prone to outbreaks.
At this time, the Four Wastes had no medical system, and the national resistance rate to the plague was extremely low. So the mass extinction that Zhao Wenrui had predicted began. The effect can be compared with the original Black Death in Europe, even more brutal.
After the global tsunami, there was climate change, a large number of glaciers melted, and the addition of fresh water to seawater changed the structure of the seawater and also changed the temperature. Then it affected the weather, thunderstorms, heavy rains, and El Niño, followed by severe cold. Because at this time, global exhaust emissions reached a new low, mainly because the oil system basically collapsed.
This system used to be mainly in the hands of the world's energy tycoons, and part of it was in the hands of the Middle East oil tycoons. Now that the energy tycoon is holding the thigh of the fusion reactor, the oil tycoon has paid a high price to go to the refuge, relying on some military heads and armed factions, can not organize stable oil production and oil output, and even maintain the normal operation of the oil well is not easy to do As more and more oil wells are scrapped and there is no channel to sell them, then there is a complete collapse. People in various countries are unable to drive cars or burn oil because of the super economic winter, and the entire system is so quickly abandoned.
In addition, the old high-emissions industry was either thrown away or went bankrupt on its own. Coupled with the large number of deaths of the population and the decline in the general life index, the low-carbon era has successfully arrived.
The impact of this change on the global climate is not small, so this year's cold winter came early and cold.
From a certain point of view, Zhao Wenrui's original intention was reached. The world's human beings are in distress and are suffering a lot. It is estimated that tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of people will die from hunger and cold this winter in the northern hemisphere.
Many modern people do n’t take it seriously, and think it ’s a little overkill, but in fact it ’s a complementary thing. Hunger makes immunity and resistance weak, cold makes heat lose continuously, and it ’s easier to starve. In the end, even breathing cold air can hurt the lung A small lesion can also cause a series of complications. If not, the persistent hunger and cold will also cause organ failure.
Many people are wrapped in seemingly thick clothing quilts, but they are all cold. The next day they were found dead in the bed, not simply starved or frozen, but organ failure, which can not survive the winter, especially immune Minors who are weak and have relatively low resistance are even more so. They are relatively weak in survivability and have little experience in how to take good care of themselves. Without care, the cold winter is often fatal to them.
But Zhao Wenrui couldn't see this anymore, and his mission was over. As always, it can stay for 24 hours.
The fleet of G-Stars finally landed somewhat.
Of course, what they need is not landing, and even many of their ships can't land normally, but will fall alive like a parachutist who can't open the umbrella bag.
All they want is an opportunity to launch a big bombing ratio. It doesn't matter next.
So although more than two hundred warships landed in the end, they basically died terribly. Their landing point was in the Pacific Ocean near Seattle. The alliance calculated its trajectory early in the morning, so all the surface and underwater ships that could be hit soon The ships have passed, and the new era will bring them, and these weapons are also outdated. Now it's worth the last shift.
The battle is dominated by unilateral abuse, whether it is an explosion, an explosion, or a big explosion. The sea area has become the main relic of the G-Star expedition. I believe it will become a tourist attraction in the future.
With the complete establishment of the G Star Fleet. Although there are still some ships in space, and there are even four or five hundred ships, but they are not organized, the damage is serious, and the branches are very scattered.
In this context, the gods believe that war has been clearly identified, so the mission is over.
Zhao Wenrui regretted that his G-star scrubbing plan was basically bankrupt.
The Fourth Fleet was originally changed to the transition engine, but as the frontline battles were tight, he was terminated and the reserve force of the Fourth Fleet was added to the battle sequence.
As a result, there are only 24 hours left.
So this situation is really a bit repulsive. The main point of response is still on the Fifth Fleet, which has not yet been off the assembly line. If you do not build this fleet, whether it is used in the first two or three fleets or the fourth fleet, the Nanoworm will have a good performance, and even both can be considered. The first two three fleets can perform better and perfect. Replacing the achievements achieved by the four fleets in reality. The Fourth Fleet has also completed the upgrade and is able to go to the G Star Wash.
It's really a bad move. He does n’t even understand it now. Why did the Fifth Fleet even come out? In order to leave more heritage to the people of this world?
Otherwise, even if he really wanted him to enter the fight, as if he had imagined it, it seems that this fleet is not bad. After all, the premise of the fight is that the G-Stars feel that there is hope for the goal of destroying humans and protecting the environment as much as possible. In that case, even if there is one more fleet, it is actually unsustainable. G-Stars will release disaster-grade weapons, which will be more easy and easy. What can an additional fleet do?
So the creation of the Fifth Fleet, quite a IQ is not online.
After complaining about his decision-making mistakes, Zhao Wenrui quickly entered the closing link.
He is a little bigger in the booth of this world. The most important thing is that he does not want to give any gifts to humans in this world.
He thought about it and opened a dialogue directly with the league.
He expressed such a meaning that the seven space battleships previously presented to the Alliance almost all represent the upgraded versions of the industrial grade they now own.
Only a few of these warships were injured, and none of them was sunk.
Therefore, as long as the alliance pulls down the technology of the warships, it will be well fed in the coming decades.
Even such a development speed has far exceeded the normal development speed of civilization. This kind of growth is not necessarily a good thing. Human beings entering the mid-to-late space age too late and lacking time accumulation will inevitably cause various problems, such as The contradiction between cosmic pioneers and mother star and so on.
So, technically, the league should not expect him to continue to send anything. After all, at the last interception station, the warship bird also lost a lot. I believe that even if the alliance salvage the wreckage, it can piece together a complete warship bird. That is a very instructive weapon that will allow the alliance to step into the future aerospace aspect. Fast lane.
So overall, the future of the league is quite promising.
However, he feels that the trend of the lighthouse nation is not good.
Although the lighthouse country is an immigrant country, it is known to be eclectic and good at learning to grow up, but in fact it is very heavily influenced by the capitals that originated in Europe.
In other words, the lighthouse country is actually the successor of white people's predatory civilization. Because the play of capital is itself established on the basis of plundering civilization.
The other so-called freedoms and personal rights are in fact post-cultures that are full of food and clothing, and have the foundation of the early economic and material foundations.
Zhao Wenrui bluntly stated that he did not appreciate the robber system at all. He always believed that the splendor of civilization relied mainly on creation and construction, rather than stimulation through exploitation, exploitation, and oppression.
Therefore, he personally appreciates the cultivation civilization that actively develops the potential internally.
So he is no longer ready to support the aggressive Beacon State Department, but is ready to support the foot basin and stick.
He said: "Actually, we, Huaxia, are the most orthodox farming nations. We have always emphasized equal cooperation, mutual benefit, and win-win outcomes. Internally, we have improved the quality of the population and the economic level, focused on spiritual civilization, developing science and technology, and creating wealth."
"In comparison, Japan and South Korea, because of their regional characteristics, have led to national thoughts that are not fair and peaceful, like swordsmanship, danger, extremes, and short-sightedness. Therefore, in my mind, they are not very good heirs. And the earth In terms of the environment, it is qualified to develop into a population that leads human civilization. In fact, there are three. North America, Europe, China, population, market, resources, development potential, and national characteristics brought by the environment determine the three most hope."
"But now we are talking about this world, and we will use the actual situation of this world as a starting point. Although Japan and South Korea are still lacking in representing inventions of farming civilizations, the dwarfs can only pick them up."
"As for the guidance and cultivation of population, resources, markets, and national characteristics, in the space age, there are more choices. For example, the moon, such as Mars."
"So, I now provide Japan and South Korea with an opportunity to go far to the moon and Mars and develop farming civilization. I will provide a full set of deep space colonization satellite technology, which can naturally be used on the moon and Mars. This means Therefore, if Japan and South Korea choose to go far, then in the solar system era, at least in terms of other planets and deep space colonization, a big step ahead. "
"And the advantages of the alliance do not need me to say more, the next superpower will integrate the countries of the earth, it will be inevitable, and there is no power to resist. So the human predatory civilization that established the global village is also very competitive. And in the process of integration The space development has also been able to unfold. So I ’m not worried that the alliance will not have the opportunity to take over later. Even for Japan and South Korea who need to work hard from scratch, you still have a huge advantage. "
"Okay, choose. Mainly Japan and South Korea. If you choose yes, then the First Two Three Four Fleet created by the First Order will your civilization. Of course, I will lock up the possibility of actively launching a war. Four The squadron is defensive. In case I leave, you in the infant are strangled by the Alliance. "
"If you choose no, then you will continue the current process. I will drive the four fleets to the sun. I will not leave any advanced technology. The reason I said, I have no intention to promote civilization. You need a precipitation period next, not Build a castle in the sky. "
Zhao Wenrui's speech naturally triggered a strong response from the alliance.
At this time, the performance of the foot basin and the stick are different.
As a nation that has never been conquered by foreign forces, Foot Basin has a stronger independence and a stronger heart, and its bad geography not only promotes their tenacity, but also makes them full of longing for a rich, prestigious and stable country. Simply put is the land complex.
As for hard work, almost all ethnic groups in East Asia have this feature, because East Asia ’s population is always large, and it ’s a basic feature over time to support themselves and their families. It ’s a basic feature over time. Unlike South Asia, picking fruits, eating bananas and catching fish, one year It ’s just sent. Anyway, it ’s not cold in winter anyway, so they are generally lazy, and they do n’t have the kind of overall considerations that temperate people were born because of the need for winter. The long-term planning ideas are much worse than that anyway. This is what the region brings Differences in national temperament.
The sticks don't have the sense of crisis and bitterness of the foot basin people, so although they are also very face-saving and strong, they are still a little bit worse than the one.
Of course, if compared with other ethnic groups, the stick is also very cruel, and it also stems from the pressure of life. If you are not cruel to yourself, you will not live well or even live. And being able to be cruel to yourself is not too weak to others. It's just that the Asians are still afraid of trouble, don't want to break their own inherent planning, and are also good at being patient, so they generally seem to be kind and easy to speak, but they just seem to know that if they are pressed, they will know how furious the honest people are.
Different national characteristics have different attitudes when facing Zhao Wenrui's proposal.
The foot basin is basically ecstatic. Many people expressed their wish to thank Zhao Wenrui in person. More people expressed that they must build a monument at the shrine. Whether they are official or private, they should thank Zhao Wenrui for his kindness to the Hezu. This gave them not only a promising future, but also an opportunity to lead human civilization. No thanks.
The stick is a bit helpless. Zhao Wenrui put such words on the spot. It seems to be exalting Japan and South Korea. In fact, there are also hidden dangers of killing. Not to mention the lighthouse country. Other countries may have opinions in their hearts. Even if Zhao Wenrui's proposal should not be adopted, he might not be regarded as his own by the lighthouse country in the future.
We are plundering civilization, you are farming civilization, let's play with your farming, we robbers like us can't climb honest people like you, civilized people.
By then, this can definitely come out.
So now I do n’t want to get on it, otherwise, it ’s just a matter of time.
So with different moods, the foot basin and the stick successively agreed to Zhao Wenrui's proposal.
Zhao Wenrui's time is running out, and there is not much time for them to choose. The high-level leaders of the two countries also adopted resolutions that were voted within a limited time after their urgent consultations.
In the end, the stick chose the moon. Although the moon is inferior to Mars, the moon has a base left by Zhao Wenrui, a star port, and a deep space industrial base.
Although all have undergone some technical reductions. But it is also an excellent capital, and the technology that Zhao Wenrui gave to the lighthouse country before, and the lighthouse country summarizes the global advanced technology, the foot basin and the stick are also available. Han is migrating and resettling, and adapting to the new mode of life and production, while the lighthouse country is integrating the devastated earth.
The foot basin chooses Mars. Mars has greater potential and is closer to the asteroid belt, which can better develop the space industry. In addition, it is relatively far away from the earth and can be developed with peace of mind.
Of course, force is the guarantee of peace. The two fleets of the First Order are the real relief for the foot basin and the stick. I think the key to the implementability of Zhao Wenrui ’s proposal.
In the words of some footbath people: "Your lighthouse country will bully Lao Tzu in the future. Lao Tzu will give you earth justice on Mars and let your great president ascend to heaven in the presidential palace."
In addition, the seven ships that were given away were naturally divided into two, foot basin 2, stick 1, and lighthouse 4.
Although the lighthouse country feels very painful, it is not without any benefits. Originally the foot basin and sticks belonged to hob meat, and this time the G star crisis, they performed well, there was not much loss of national strength, and a lot of technical benefits. The future is also a trouble.
Now that I have moved as a whole, I can be considered a heart disease.
The remaining Asian countries can follow the example of Native Americans.
Of course, there are actually better ways, such as space development, asteroid belt mining, all need people.
Although Shangji is actually very good, or even better, human beings are pursuing benefits, and capital is cost-conscious, and human wisdom is a good advantage. If labor costs are not high, human wisdom makes it relatively versatile, Adapt to multiple jobs, then manpower can be more cost-effective than machines.
Just like the space version of the black coal kiln, it is possible to send people who are not to be seen to work in high-risk work areas. The population is also reduced, and the benefits are also produced. Is it better than simple killing? There is also a cost to killing. Doesn't the bullet cost money?
Therefore, the beacon countries and even the capitals have already planned the future for non-whites. Anyway, their past experience made them realize that the population ratio is an important indicator. For stability, the main ethnic group must have an absolute population ratio.
In addition, Zhao Wenrui also pointed out a hidden danger, the G-star. He regretted that due to time constraints, his original G-star washing mission failed.
The countries of the Alliance wiped sweat, and they said that Uncle Zhao was indeed a mixed multiverse, and almost ran to G Star Burned Glass. It seems that the current technical mastery is far from the limit. After all, G Star people came and spent 2 years. It is impossible to have 2 years, so it must have mastered more advanced interstellar navigation technology.
In fact, there is no need for Zhao Wenrui to remind, the alliance is also aware of it, so I believe that for the next many years, the world will focus on the theme of unity.
Now it is necessary to work hard to unite the foot basins and sticks, because they are the heirs of the legacy of the force of first order.
In the foreseeable future, when the G-Star builds a ship and embarks on a vengeance journey, humans will be able to develop smoothly, but it will only be able to mass-produce the kind of warships given by Zhao Wenrui. Most of the performance is still close, for example, the kind of intelligent projectile, it is estimated that it can not be solved.
Well, the legacy of force of the first order is still to pick the beam.
After all, the G Starmen's 20,000 warships made great advances, and most of them died in the hands of the first order. The alliance mainly knocked a side drum, reflecting the courage to die and the determination to fight to the end.
Then next time, it will begin to meet outside the Kuiper Belt. The alliance ships will play the auxiliary role, the first order heritage will play the main role, and then the layers will be supplied, the layers will resist, and finally the G Star Fleet will be annihilated by depth.
Therefore, in the following years, it is still right to sing the political correctness of the human family.
Looking at Zhao Wenrui is about to flash people.
As a result, the gods even sent him a continuous mission.
The general meaning is that he does not need to return, but can take part of the property and proceed from this world to the next mission world. The main is responsible for the group to transfer across the multiverse.
Zhao Wenrui naturally wanted to know that the Lord God asked him to work overtime for a few reasons.
And there is one point worth mentioning is that sending him to the mission world, and then giving him the development time to let him build a team, is definitely more cost-effective than multi-universe transmission of a cluster. So, what makes the Lord God prefer to spend so much, but also let him bring firepower into the new mission world.
So he looked at the new mission world and mission before asking questions.
Mission World: Alien: Contract
He knows that this film is very painful. He thinks it is a kind of typical work that is not for logic and sacrifices rationality for the plot, but it has no plot to fail. If it is not someone else who buys accounts of alien series feelings, this film Investors will have no idea about this series.
Task: Rescue the immigration fleet.
Zhao Wenrui thinks that if it is just this, then this is a task to send points.
Just one or two aliens, plus a savvy bioman, where do you need a fleet? Put him directly on the boat, he can teach these enemies to be humans, a thing, but within a round in his hands, it will bully ordinary people, and most of them must be civilians lacking intelligence.
If you have an understanding of its characteristics and habits, and be fully armed, I believe that some mercenaries with combat experience can cry aliens. After all, they are only sneak attackers who are close to the combat combat ratio, facing modern hot weapons and Trap, I ’m afraid I ca n’t stand it. Not to mention that the background of the special-shaped series is still about one hundred years after the technology is higher than modern. Film investment is limited, screenwriters have limited brain holes, and they are not professional enough. It does not mean that in the era of reality, humans do not have more advanced weapons.
Continue to look down: there are hostile reincarnations, super hostile mode.
Zhao Wenrui felt that he finally caught the point.
The super-hostile mode is simply that either he died, or the other party died or was removed by the protection of his gods. UU reading www.uukanshu.com otherwise this round will not be finished.
Understood, earning face, fighting for interests, and doing dirty work.
Almost these reasons. It seems that this time the Lord God encountered a very poor peer. Determined to give the other party some color.
I have to find a way to support the Lord God.
Zhao Wenrui involuntarily thought of the last time in the comprehensive memory, the victory and defeat have been divided, but still not according to the reincarnation who wanted to assassinate him, and the words of the dead fashion.
He faintly felt that what he encountered next in the {Alien: Contract} universe was that he would be the samsara under the jurisdiction of the Lord God.
As the so-called master, there are slaves. The reincarnations are fierce and tough, and they will never admit defeat. They bring their own pretense, and their masters are afraid that they are similar to virtue.
"Okay, don't know what, I feel inexplicably hot. I like to play comparisons, then I will play Thunder, see if I can break these comparisons!"