1. anything at the other end of a 6,000km hole is not an imminent threat
We don't really have enough information about the aliens to make this assessment, I would argue. Maybe they're all on hoverbikes. ;-) Or can teleport up the tube like their queen once awake, unless drowned first. I appreciate that proper SF would have bothered to explain how this was going to work, but in a James Bond underground-base-style denouement it's enough that we know the aliens are going to pose a threat once they get out, and that whenever they arrive it'll be really really bad.
2. emptying the Thames into something that size isn't going to make a noticeable difference to anything
It won't fill the hole. It could certainly fill the spaceship at the bottom of it, which I assumed was the point.
there's the Huon particles,
The Huon particles are, I agree, arbitrary and problematic. They bother me a bit more than the stonking big hole.
and oh, pretty much every emotional arc in the piece
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Date: 2006-12-26 08:13 pm (UTC)We don't really have enough information about the aliens to make this assessment, I would argue. Maybe they're all on hoverbikes. ;-) Or can teleport up the tube like their queen once awake, unless drowned first. I appreciate that proper SF would have bothered to explain how this was going to work, but in a James Bond underground-base-style denouement it's enough that we know the aliens are going to pose a threat once they get out, and that whenever they arrive it'll be really really bad.
2. emptying the Thames into something that size isn't going to make a noticeable difference to anything
It won't fill the hole. It could certainly fill the spaceship at the bottom of it, which I assumed was the point.
there's the Huon particles,
The Huon particles are, I agree, arbitrary and problematic. They bother me a bit more than the stonking big hole.
and oh, pretty much every emotional arc in the piece
Que?