Cue "Apocalypse Now" music, grab surfboard

Whoa doggie. Gotta chew on this one a while.

Whatever I may have previously said regarding me and my personal helicopters, disregard that.

This seems the purest sort of science, fiction, like most of Neil Stephensons novels, 99% sound, and suspension of disbelief for that other 1%.


but therein is the story