#865: Nanobots explain

[Megan and commander are on a space station.]

Megan: Commander! Come quick! It’s the nanobots—they’ve STOPPED!

Megan: They devoured 40% of the Earth, and then just… quit! They’re just sitting there! Why?!

Ponytail: It’s a mystery. …unless… What’s the volume of each nanobot?

Megan: A few cubic microns. Why?

Ponytail: I think the year 1998 just bought us some time.

[Earth’s surface, covered in mountains of nanobots.]

In the swarm:

Nanobot: What do you mean, “Run out of addresses?”

Other Nanobot: Look, we should’ve migrated away from IPv6 AGES ago…