The universe crashed due to the Voyager probe causing excessive chunk generation. Buffer overflow.
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@futurebird They didn't have SSDs when the universe started. It all had to be stored in analog. It's no wonder they ran out of storage.
@futurebird you did read "Permutation City", right?
@futurebird Stephen Baxter has a short story called "Touching Centauri" (part of his "Phase Space" collection published in 2003). It has a *very* similar premise and it stuck with me ever since […]
@futurebird something like this is the back story for The Lords of Creation in Phil Farmer’s World of Tiers/Designer Pocket Universes novels.
Which is how they discovered they were in a pocket […]
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