No on the moon base as the Nazis already did it. The base needs to be installed on a terrestrial body other than Earth and its moon. Just to keep things fair since we’re unsure how long it might be before the fabric of time is discovered to require military intervention.

WHEN we need a Time Force they’ll probably have travel locked down so it’s unlikely someone would make it back to deliver the news. Might have to add a rule about not disrupting the time continuum and just let descendents claim the reward.

That covers the germs and steel. Where do the guns factor in?

Central and West Asians really aren’t ready to hear that.

I concede that despite not being alive when it was going on, I am just as guilty as everyone in the CIA that rigged elections and staged coups in South America. Everything I’ve come to know and understand in this lifetime is tainted by imperialism and is therefore invalid.

I want to say we agreed that the base had to be out of Earth’s orbit. I’d have to go over the details again as we made the wager a long time ago and after several drinks.

I have an ongoing bet with a buddy. I win when the Space Force establishes a base off-planet. He wins if the US forms a Time Force branch. Neither of us expect to win in our lifetime.

How to recover from this: hand one to the cashier.

The speech recognition software used by digital assistants that come with most modern smartphones would make it trivial to process the audio locally and map the output to your ad profile. Much lighter lift than sending audio recordings.