Maybe its just me, but the odds they gave are wrong. with 20,000 entries, and 10 laptops, the odds would be 1 in 20,000 of winning. not 1 in 200,000 as the article states.

In my opinion, the real flaw was the fact that everyone was walking around 10 years after nukes were dropped all over the world. Wouldn't everyone be dead just from the radiation?

The ansible only provides faster than light communication. so once the microrobots gets there we wouldn't have to wait years to find out.