I'm increasingly drawn by this idea of a group of thieves who've been botching this leap second-based gem heist over and over for yearshttps://twitter.com/qntm/status/615572970879234048 …
They keep getting the timing wrong and then quietly exfiltrating, intending to try again when the next leap second happens in ~18 months
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But it's been going on for so long that it's also a major part of the last 10 years of their lives. It might even be their only constant
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They get married, move countries, raise kids, they serve a little time for other reasons, but this one gem heist, they keep coming back to
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As an amusing IMDb trivia nugget, maybe one of the characters could be named Guillaume Le Gentil?
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