• MoonMelon@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    TFW you live in a galaxy-spanning super civilization but your planet is dying because its ID in the central database has a UUID collision with another planet 80000 light years away.

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      3 days ago

      Well, the UUIDs for almost everything we use are galaxy-scale already. Astronomers just need to up those random letters a bit.