you might not get the chance to tell it this isn’t what you meant.

And that is where the thought experiment left the tracks - lifted off with escape velocity and is now passing Voyager 2…

In what cartoon world do we not get a chance to shut off the Doomsday Device? I mean, it was a funny little twist at the end of Dr. Strangelove, but as realistic as many elements of that story were, that was not one of them.