r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 21h ago

Meme needing explanation I’m genuinely mystified

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u/whoscareabtme 21h ago

Some drug allow you to "astral project" it seems like you going around the universe. She talks to aliens. Turns out it is real. The aliens come and obliterate earth with some rods from god type of weapon. Which just destroys shit by being heavy a dense.

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u/AreWeThereYetNo 21h ago

“Rods from god” is this a reference to a
Anathem?

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u/whoscareabtme 21h ago

Nah it's an actual us military project

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u/MrVeazey 20h ago

The Neal Stephenson book? I really enjoyed that one, even though it's not really related to the rest of the conversation.

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u/AreWeThereYetNo 20h ago

I read it when it came out (2008) and must be misremembering. I have a distinct (likely false) memory of something traveling from orbit to the ground. Could be around the same time I first read about kinetic bombs.

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u/MrVeazey 19h ago

There's some cool stuff in there based on old ideas from the Cold War involving bombs and there might have been a slab of metal accelerated into a super-fast projectile but I don't remember exactly. It's still a fun book, though, and I enjoyed it.