NARRATOR: The All-Star...
DORAGNE: I have new data from the theater of operations.
ULAQUE: Thank you.
That collapses the manifold.
PUTZHO: "Manifold collapse" means you have a small set of probabilities instead of a large one?
ULAQUE: The set is still infinite, but the bell is more of a spike.
PUTZHO: Oh. Yeah, I see it now.
DORAGNE: A spike upon which their civilization is about to impale itself.
PUTZHO: Maybe I don't see it.
ULAQUE: Don't drop metaphor into my manifold.