From b663662ea45825b5332d7fdee2723e3fff582a70 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: James Tomasino Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2021 00:00:02 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] backup --- gopher/Isla Ristol/b9.txt | 71 ++++ gopher/W3bK3rN3l Radio/wbknl-000014.txt | 60 ++++ gopher/atom.xml | 307 +++++++++--------- gopher/listing.gophermap | 2 + gopher/orestes/05_i_dont_want_to_lose_her.txt | 66 ++++ gopher/rss.xml | 297 ++++++++--------- 6 files changed, 492 insertions(+), 311 deletions(-) create mode 100644 gopher/Isla Ristol/b9.txt create mode 100644 gopher/W3bK3rN3l Radio/wbknl-000014.txt create mode 100644 gopher/orestes/05_i_dont_want_to_lose_her.txt diff --git a/gopher/Isla Ristol/b9.txt b/gopher/Isla Ristol/b9.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6c5cd75 --- /dev/null +++ b/gopher/Isla Ristol/b9.txt @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ +Isla Ristol - Aventuras en Marte + +Entrada 2x8 + +Hilito, Chispita, Puercoespín, Alejandro Magno el Magnífico y +Maderita (yo) somos oficialmente los marginados oficiales de la +residencia. Así que por lo que parece tenemos que jugar juntos +a algo. Y ese algo es un juego de contar historias juntos que +se llama juego de rol de mesa. Aunque también se llama + +D&D Edición Original - Edición 3572 + +Lo que no tiene mucho sentido. +O es la original o no. (Y no lo es, pero se le llama original.) +Qué raro. + +Bueno, Hilito es nuestro amigo marciano. + +Al final no te voy a contar el nombre porque alguno de nuestros +no-amigos de Marte podría leerlo. Aunque supongo que ya sabe quiénes +somos. Da un poco igual, pero no. Privacidad y todo eso. + +Cuando le conté que le había puesto un mote en mi imaginación le +hizo gracia y nos pusimos motes a todos. + +Chispita es Venusiana. + +Su mote es porque es muy inteligente, científica, empollona y +todo eso. Más que ninguno de los demás. Aunque dice que en Venus +pensaba que era un poco torpe. No me lo creo, aunque Venus esté +lleno de científicas locas y cientíicos chiflados. (Que es lo que +dicen todos). + +Le he preguntado cómo es allí y me dice que en realidad nunca ha +estado en la superficie. Los Venusianos o viven en órbita o en +la parte superior de la atmósfera donde una estructura artificial +puede resistir. O sea que es aún peor que Marte. Bueno eso ya lo +sabía por el colegio, pero esperaba que fuera una exageración. +Una esperanza estúpida, pero bueno, tengo edad de utopías y esas cosas. +A Chispita le gusta tirar los dados cuando nadie mira. Sospe... + +Puercoespín es también de la Tierra, +aunque ya lleva un año en Marte esperando que sus padres se decidan +quién tiene que venir a recogerlo. (Larga y triste historia). Lo +único bueno es que Marte lo está haciendo super-alto y experto en +informática por diversión. + +Su mote es porque... mejor no meterse con él. Tiene reacciones +tenebrosas y ariscas. Le podíamos haber llamado Dráculita el dragón +pero se quedó ese. + +Alejandro Magno el Magnífico es de una nave espacial. Porque nació en +una y vivió en ella hasta los trece años. Ahora está en Marte por lo de +la secundaria. Pero preferiría volver a una nave espacial, como yo. + +En cuanto a su mote, es porque tiene todo un mundo imaginario en el que +es un general de la Edad de Hierro conquistando gente con sus catafractos +os algo así. + +Maderita. + +¿Qué por qué me han puesto ese mote? Dicen que por el color de mi piel +(Si todos los colores de la humanidad son de maderas, algunos de pino, +otros de caoba otros de roble...) + +No, vale eso era mentira, lo que dicen es que estoy todo el día hablando +de árboles y cosas biológicas que no hay en Marte, ni en Venus ni en +ninguna nave espacial). Solo fue ayer, lo prometo. Maderita. Bueno, me +han llamado cosas peores. Y me llamarán cosas peores. Maderita... vale... + +~ Enteka (enteka_a_fastmail:::com) diff --git a/gopher/W3bK3rN3l Radio/wbknl-000014.txt b/gopher/W3bK3rN3l Radio/wbknl-000014.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b3735da --- /dev/null +++ b/gopher/W3bK3rN3l Radio/wbknl-000014.txt @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +``` + ___________. __ ________ ________ .__ +__ _ _\_____ \_ |__ | | __\_____ \______ ____ \_____ \| | +\ \/ \/ / _(__ <| __ \| |/ / _(__ <_ __ \/ \ _(__ <| | + \ / / \ \_\ \ < / \ | \/ | \/ \ |__ + \/\_/ /______ /___ /__|_ \/______ /__| |___| /______ /____/ + \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ + .___.__ +____________ __| _/|__| ____ +\_ __ \__ \ / __ | | |/ _ \ + | | \// __ \_/ /_/ | | ( <_> ) + |__| (____ /\____ | |__|\____/ + \/ \/ +``` +W3bK3rN3l radio outpost +wbknl-000014 +----------------------- +KG-84 encrypted MIL-STD 188-110B +Message made on an ISB circuit +--> Croughton (AJE) +--> Sigonella (NSY) + +{ +Several theorists suggest that this is a secret communication +station for a secret society, agency, or government, to be used +to communicate in an unbreakable, bizarre cipher. Several major +events and military exercises that have taken place during +intercepts of w3bk3rn3l's radio transmissions back the theory +} + +1....<|.|>.......19..............35........|*...$!........%"..:wq + +==> BEGIN ENCRYPTION + +>BOT + +WBKNL era um complexo militar numa zona quase deserta, alvo de +medidas de segurança rigorososas. Havia câmaras de 30 em 30 +metros, ligadas a um sistema CCTV de última geração. + +Do exterior, era impossível ver o que se passava dentro do +edifício. Não era permitido entrar ou sair de WBKNL através da +única porta existente. Uma porta que só era merecedora desse +nome porque existia um contorno mais claro que a definia e que +contrastava com o preto das paredes de concreto do edifício em +forma trapezoidal. + +Todos os movimentos de entrada e saída dos militares eram +feitos por um túnel subterrâneo, com mais de 10 km, que ligava +o complexo a Povarovo (Поварово), um assentamento suburbano do +distrito de Solnechnogorsky do Oblast de Moscovo. Povarovo +tinha uma população de cerca de 8000 habitantes e era servida +por uma estação ferroviária da linha Moscovo-S.Petersburgo. + +A solidão é a morte dos vivos. + +[#$%&"/&&"%!$$$ --> noise] + +>EOT + diff --git a/gopher/atom.xml b/gopher/atom.xml index 962b308..32fd820 100644 --- a/gopher/atom.xml +++ b/gopher/atom.xml @@ -4,9 +4,157 @@ Messages from the human stellar diaspora -2021-03-23T17:06:58Z +2021-03-24T15:28:25Z ©2021 All rights reserved gopher://cosmic.voyage/ + + W3bK3rN3l Radio - wbknl-000014 + + w3bk3rn3l + + + gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/W3bK3rN3l%20Radio/wbknl-000014.txt + 2021-03-24T15:28:25Z + +``` + ___________. __ ________ ________ .__ +__ _ _\_____ \_ |__ | | __\_____ \______ ____ \_____ \| | +\ \/ \/ / _(__ <| __ \| |/ / _(__ <_ __ \/ \ _(__ <| | + \ / / \ \_\ \ < / \ | \/ | \/ \ |__ + \/\_/ /______ /___ /__|_ \/______ /__| |___| /______ /____/ + \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ + .___.__ +____________ __| _/|__| ____ +\_ __ \__ \ / __ | | |/ _ \ + | | \// __ \_/ /_/ | | ( <_> ) + |__| (____ /\____ | |__|\____/ + \/ \/ +``` +W3bK3rN3l radio outpost +wbknl-000014 +----------------------- +KG-84 encrypted MIL-STD 188-110B +Message made on an ISB circuit +--> Croughton (AJE) +--> Sigonella (NSY) + +{ +Several theorists suggest that this is a secret communication +station for a secret society, agency, or government, to be used +to communicate in an unbreakable, bizarre cipher. Several major +events and military exercises that have taken place during +intercepts of w3bk3rn3l's radio transmissions back the theory +} + +1....<|.|>.......19..............35........|*...$!........%"..:wq + +==> BEGIN ENCRYPTION + +>BOT + +WBKNL era um complexo militar numa zona quase deserta, alvo de +medidas de segurança rigorososas. Havia câmaras de 30 em 30 +metros, ligadas a um sistema CCTV de última geração. + +Do exterior, era impossível ver o que se passava dentro do +edifício. Não era permitido entrar ou sair de WBKNL através da +única porta existente. Uma porta que só era merecedora desse +nome porque existia um contorno mais claro que a definia e que +contrastava com o preto das paredes de concreto do edifício em +forma trapezoidal. + +Todos os movimentos de entrada e saída dos militares eram +feitos por um túnel subterrâneo, com mais de 10 km, que ligava +o complexo a Povarovo (Поварово), um assentamento suburbano do +distrito de Solnechnogorsky do Oblast de Moscovo. Povarovo +tinha uma população de cerca de 8000 habitantes e era servida +por uma estação ferroviária da linha Moscovo-S.Petersburgo. + +A solidão é a morte dos vivos. + +[#$%&"/&&"%!$$$ --> noise] + +>EOT + +]]> + + + orestes - I don't want to lose her now + + orestes + + + gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/orestes/05_i_dont_want_to_lose_her.txt + 2021-03-24T12:04:53Z + +Transmission Log - Orestes +Author: Green + +--------------------------------------------------------------- +Auto-generating preface... + + A log from GREEN. He recounts his current affair with PINK. + + PINK has been spending less and less time around him since their + first coital encounter. + + More worryingly, he speaks about PINKS desire to 'get rid' of + NAVY. I have no record in my audio logs of such an utterance. + Either PINK has found some way to circumvent the surveillance + systems, or GREEN is lying here. I will increase the threat-level + across the Orestes and hope that this situation diffuses itself + soon. In the meantime, perhaps it is worth reexamining my + suggestion regarding PINK's reassignment. Perhaps to the Electra + outpost, where she could still research crystal activity. + +-END-OF-PREFACE- +--------------------------------------------------------------- + + She's not so bad, I suppose. PINK, that is. We argue constantly, + but I've started to find those arguments refreshing. It feels so + good to shout a little and express some aggression. I think it's + the same for her. Most people get upset when arguments get + heated, not her. It helps that we mostly argue about 'academic' + things, and keep personal questions out of it. It turns out she + knows a lot more about science than I first gave her credit for. + I've been learning from her. + + Anyway, I suppose it was inevitable that the arguments would lead + to something more. We've been sleeping together. In retrospect, I + don't know why it took so long for it to happen. We've been the + only people on this rock for more than two years now. I guess + they selected us for this mission in the first place because of a + low sex-drive, but low is not 'zero'. I think for her the sex is + mostly something to quell the boredom, but for me it has meant + more. + + She doesn't like NAVY at all now. I don't mind the guy. A little + simple, but mostly in a charming way. She wants to have him + replaced. I don't think he can be replaced though. He's been here + so long, and I now believe he understands the crystals more than + we do. He knows the terrain of this planet so well and he knows + the quirks of the Orestes outpost like the back of his hand. + + I hope she doesn't really want to get rid of him. I'd probably + end up taking her side if there was some kind of conflict. I + don't want to lose her now. + + + +---------------------------------------------------------------- +Complied by the Werner H. Young Terminal Emulator + +Info: Simple A.I., designed on-site for executing +systems maintenance tasks and exchanging messages between +the Orestes outpost and the Arsinoe. + +Built by Werner Young (2113-2151). + +Names of persons have been masked to protect their identity. +---------------------------------------------------------------- + +]]> + Isla Ristol - Maderita @@ -1139,161 +1287,4 @@ la lá ~ Enteka (enteka_a_fastmail:::com) ]]> - - orestes - The last of the apples - - orestes - - - gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/orestes/02_last_of_the_apples.txt - 2021-03-14T08:53:20Z - -Transmission Log - Orestes -Author: Green - ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Auto-generating preface... - - A transmission log by GREEN. He thinks the messages aren't - reaching anyone. He philosophizes about the concept of life. He - complains about his fellow human-inhabitants at the Orestes. - - Thank you for sending the mining equipment, I'll distribute it to - the crew when the time seems fitting, as per your recommendation. - --END-OF-PREFACE- ---------------------------------------------------------------- - - - You still haven't sent the mining equipment, or anything for that - matter. Lending credence to my theory that these messages aren't - reaching anyone. - - I still, for some reason, feel the desire to update you. There - are things to tell. Events that happen. Even in this remote - corner of the universe, populated only by three people and a - bunch of strange, inert, red crystals, things happen. - - If reminds me of something a philosopher once said, when talking - about 'life' (Life, after all, and the inexplicable human desire - to find more of it, is why we're here). - - We usually think of things beginning when life appears. That - is, before life, there are no real 'events'. Life is activity, - motion, desire, growth. In absence of life, there are just rocks - planets, stars, etc. We are fascinated about the question of the - beginning of life, that strange moment when one cell first - divides into two. - - But, the philosopher said, there is no life without difference - and before what we call 'life' appeared there was difference. The - universe is full of differences. Or, to be more exact, the - universe made up of of processes, and processes are just a series - of differentiations. - - We think of life as continuous, as having a history (genealogy), - a clear beginning and end. But this sense of life, the one that - we cling to so dearly, the reason we voyage out into the void in - search of it, this sense of life is a construct. A story we tell - ourselves to try to make sense of the constant differentiation - and change. Underneath it all is the force of pure difference; - the relation between this molecule and another, between a 1 and a - 0, between the geology of this 'dead' rock floating in space and - 'that' one. So, if you're tracking a process of differentiation - across the universe, 'events' are happening all the time. - - Not with these crystals though. There really is nothing going on - with them, in any sense. - - All that's been happening are the overly-familiar kinds of - 'events'. PINK ate the last of the apples. I couldn't believe it. - She ate it right in front of me, like it was a perverse act of - sadism. I don't get her sometimes. She is usually so calm and - rational. - - NAVY is sulking or has taken a vow of silence or something and - has become as unresponsive as the crystals. I ended up screaming - my head off at him the other night. I feel bad about it now. - These kinds of 'events' tire me. I wish sometimes I could be less - 'me', less 'alive', and just be a pebble on the beach or - something. Being slowly eroded by a wave. - - - ----------------------------------------------------------------- -Complied by the Werner H. Young Terminal Emulator - -Info: Simple A.I., designed on-site for executing -systems maintenance tasks and exchanging messages between the -Orestes outpost and the Arsinoe. - -Built by Werner Young (2113-2151). - -Names of persons have been masked to protect their identity. ----------------------------------------------------------------- - -]]> - - - monara - On the way to Callisto - Log File - - seek - - - gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/monara/4-esso-logfile.txt - 2021-03-13T15:46:21Z - -Source : Monara (swifter-f440p) QEC -Type : log file -Software : Log Manager v1.05 -User : Esso98 -State : sent -Date : 23-12-3020 -Time : 00:23:18 - -I left Ganymede yesterday evening. What a nice -time to start a journey. The sky was freaking red. -Anyway now I am already few thousand files away. -I was just staring at the window for a couple of -minutes now, I mean it would be a waste if I did -not enjoy the scene of leaving this beautiful sphere. - -I turned on the auto pilot mode. Sat down at my -small table, popped open a cold sprunk and opened -my Thinkpad. Played with it for a couple of minutes, -read some articles I've saved to the hard drive. -I have already passed beyond the area with internet. -So now until I get to Callisto. It's just me and the -QEC. - -Oh, what is this! there are some articles about -some hacktivists cyber protesting against government's -decision to join hands with proprietary software -companies. I wonder why those people can't -understand that sometimes, history repeats. We humans -have already destroyed a beautiful planet. Thanks to -capitalism, stupid organizations and arrogant rulers. - -I kind of feel like I am having some mental -issues. Sometimes I act like I care about the -universe. But sometimes I become ruthless and stupid. -Whatever sometimes I just wonder, if how things -good it could have been if I got to spend my -childhood with the nature. Trees, animals and beautiful -sunsets. - -Instead of that, thanks to our capitalist and -communist ancestors I had to live among the dirt, -killing rats and stealing from humans. Thinking about -that past make my anger towards humans pop up -just like a small spark of fire hidden in the ashes. -There are multiple occasions I felt like I want to -blow up everyone. - -Hmmm this sprunk is nice. I closed down my Thinkpad, -got up did some stretchings. And came back to the -pilot compartment. I wonder if how many, or what -kind of people do read my logs. -]]> - diff --git a/gopher/listing.gophermap b/gopher/listing.gophermap index 93d4b41..5f09315 100644 --- a/gopher/listing.gophermap +++ b/gopher/listing.gophermap @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +0W3bK3rN3l Radio - wbknl-000014 /W3bK3rN3l Radio/wbknl-000014.txt +0orestes - I don't want to lose her now /orestes/05_i_dont_want_to_lose_her.txt 0Isla Ristol - Maderita /Isla Ristol/b8.txt 0gecko-110 - We dig /gecko-110/log-file(001).txt 0Isla Ristol - Microblog macrotonto /Isla Ristol/b7.txt diff --git a/gopher/orestes/05_i_dont_want_to_lose_her.txt b/gopher/orestes/05_i_dont_want_to_lose_her.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1dbf101 --- /dev/null +++ b/gopher/orestes/05_i_dont_want_to_lose_her.txt @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ +Transmission Log - Orestes +Author: Green + +--------------------------------------------------------------- +Auto-generating preface... + + A log from GREEN. He recounts his current affair with PINK. + + PINK has been spending less and less time around him since their + first coital encounter. + + More worryingly, he speaks about PINKS desire to 'get rid' of + NAVY. I have no record in my audio logs of such an utterance. + Either PINK has found some way to circumvent the surveillance + systems, or GREEN is lying here. I will increase the threat-level + across the Orestes and hope that this situation diffuses itself + soon. In the meantime, perhaps it is worth reexamining my + suggestion regarding PINK's reassignment. Perhaps to the Electra + outpost, where she could still research crystal activity. + +-END-OF-PREFACE- +--------------------------------------------------------------- + + She's not so bad, I suppose. PINK, that is. We argue constantly, + but I've started to find those arguments refreshing. It feels so + good to shout a little and express some aggression. I think it's + the same for her. Most people get upset when arguments get + heated, not her. It helps that we mostly argue about 'academic' + things, and keep personal questions out of it. It turns out she + knows a lot more about science than I first gave her credit for. + I've been learning from her. + + Anyway, I suppose it was inevitable that the arguments would lead + to something more. We've been sleeping together. In retrospect, I + don't know why it took so long for it to happen. We've been the + only people on this rock for more than two years now. I guess + they selected us for this mission in the first place because of a + low sex-drive, but low is not 'zero'. I think for her the sex is + mostly something to quell the boredom, but for me it has meant + more. + + She doesn't like NAVY at all now. I don't mind the guy. A little + simple, but mostly in a charming way. She wants to have him + replaced. I don't think he can be replaced though. He's been here + so long, and I now believe he understands the crystals more than + we do. He knows the terrain of this planet so well and he knows + the quirks of the Orestes outpost like the back of his hand. + + I hope she doesn't really want to get rid of him. I'd probably + end up taking her side if there was some kind of conflict. I + don't want to lose her now. + + + +---------------------------------------------------------------- +Complied by the Werner H. Young Terminal Emulator + +Info: Simple A.I., designed on-site for executing +systems maintenance tasks and exchanging messages between +the Orestes outpost and the Arsinoe. + +Built by Werner Young (2113-2151). + +Names of persons have been masked to protect their identity. +---------------------------------------------------------------- + diff --git a/gopher/rss.xml b/gopher/rss.xml index 9c75430..01b1ea9 100644 --- a/gopher/rss.xml +++ b/gopher/rss.xml @@ -2,6 +2,150 @@ Cosmic Voyage gopher://cosmic.voyage Messages from the human stellar diaspora + + W3bK3rN3l Radio - wbknl-000014 + w3bk3rn3l@cosmic.voyage (w3bk3rn3l) + gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/W3bK3rN3l Radio/wbknl-000014.txt + gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/W3bK3rN3l Radio/wbknl-000014.txt + Wed, 24 Mar 2021 15:28:25 GMT + +``` + ___________. __ ________ ________ .__ +__ _ _\_____ \_ |__ | | __\_____ \______ ____ \_____ \| | +\ \/ \/ / _(__ <| __ \| |/ / _(__ <_ __ \/ \ _(__ <| | + \ / / \ \_\ \ < / \ | \/ | \/ \ |__ + \/\_/ /______ /___ /__|_ \/______ /__| |___| /______ /____/ + \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ + .___.__ +____________ __| _/|__| ____ +\_ __ \__ \ / __ | | |/ _ \ + | | \// __ \_/ /_/ | | ( <_> ) + |__| (____ /\____ | |__|\____/ + \/ \/ +``` +W3bK3rN3l radio outpost +wbknl-000014 +----------------------- +KG-84 encrypted MIL-STD 188-110B +Message made on an ISB circuit +--> Croughton (AJE) +--> Sigonella (NSY) + +{ +Several theorists suggest that this is a secret communication +station for a secret society, agency, or government, to be used +to communicate in an unbreakable, bizarre cipher. Several major +events and military exercises that have taken place during +intercepts of w3bk3rn3l's radio transmissions back the theory +} + +1....<|.|>.......19..............35........|*...$!........%"..:wq + +==> BEGIN ENCRYPTION + +>BOT + +WBKNL era um complexo militar numa zona quase deserta, alvo de +medidas de segurança rigorososas. Havia câmaras de 30 em 30 +metros, ligadas a um sistema CCTV de última geração. + +Do exterior, era impossível ver o que se passava dentro do +edifício. Não era permitido entrar ou sair de WBKNL através da +única porta existente. Uma porta que só era merecedora desse +nome porque existia um contorno mais claro que a definia e que +contrastava com o preto das paredes de concreto do edifício em +forma trapezoidal. + +Todos os movimentos de entrada e saída dos militares eram +feitos por um túnel subterrâneo, com mais de 10 km, que ligava +o complexo a Povarovo (Поварово), um assentamento suburbano do +distrito de Solnechnogorsky do Oblast de Moscovo. Povarovo +tinha uma população de cerca de 8000 habitantes e era servida +por uma estação ferroviária da linha Moscovo-S.Petersburgo. + +A solidão é a morte dos vivos. + +[#$%&"/&&"%!$$$ --> noise] + +>EOT + +]]> + + + orestes - I don't want to lose her now + orestes@cosmic.voyage (orestes) + gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/orestes/05_i_dont_want_to_lose_her.txt + gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/orestes/05_i_dont_want_to_lose_her.txt + Wed, 24 Mar 2021 12:04:53 GMT + +Transmission Log - Orestes +Author: Green + +--------------------------------------------------------------- +Auto-generating preface... + + A log from GREEN. He recounts his current affair with PINK. + + PINK has been spending less and less time around him since their + first coital encounter. + + More worryingly, he speaks about PINKS desire to 'get rid' of + NAVY. I have no record in my audio logs of such an utterance. + Either PINK has found some way to circumvent the surveillance + systems, or GREEN is lying here. I will increase the threat-level + across the Orestes and hope that this situation diffuses itself + soon. In the meantime, perhaps it is worth reexamining my + suggestion regarding PINK's reassignment. Perhaps to the Electra + outpost, where she could still research crystal activity. + +-END-OF-PREFACE- +--------------------------------------------------------------- + + She's not so bad, I suppose. PINK, that is. We argue constantly, + but I've started to find those arguments refreshing. It feels so + good to shout a little and express some aggression. I think it's + the same for her. Most people get upset when arguments get + heated, not her. It helps that we mostly argue about 'academic' + things, and keep personal questions out of it. It turns out she + knows a lot more about science than I first gave her credit for. + I've been learning from her. + + Anyway, I suppose it was inevitable that the arguments would lead + to something more. We've been sleeping together. In retrospect, I + don't know why it took so long for it to happen. We've been the + only people on this rock for more than two years now. I guess + they selected us for this mission in the first place because of a + low sex-drive, but low is not 'zero'. I think for her the sex is + mostly something to quell the boredom, but for me it has meant + more. + + She doesn't like NAVY at all now. I don't mind the guy. A little + simple, but mostly in a charming way. She wants to have him + replaced. I don't think he can be replaced though. He's been here + so long, and I now believe he understands the crystals more than + we do. He knows the terrain of this planet so well and he knows + the quirks of the Orestes outpost like the back of his hand. + + I hope she doesn't really want to get rid of him. I'd probably + end up taking her side if there was some kind of conflict. I + don't want to lose her now. + + + +---------------------------------------------------------------- +Complied by the Werner H. Young Terminal Emulator + +Info: Simple A.I., designed on-site for executing +systems maintenance tasks and exchanging messages between +the Orestes outpost and the Arsinoe. + +Built by Werner Young (2113-2151). + +Names of persons have been masked to protect their identity. +---------------------------------------------------------------- + +]]> + Isla Ristol - Maderita enteka@cosmic.voyage (enteka) @@ -1100,158 +1244,5 @@ la lá ~ Enteka (enteka_a_fastmail:::com) ]]> - - orestes - The last of the apples - orestes@cosmic.voyage (orestes) - gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/orestes/02_last_of_the_apples.txt - gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/orestes/02_last_of_the_apples.txt - Sun, 14 Mar 2021 08:53:20 GMT - -Transmission Log - Orestes -Author: Green - ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Auto-generating preface... - - A transmission log by GREEN. He thinks the messages aren't - reaching anyone. He philosophizes about the concept of life. He - complains about his fellow human-inhabitants at the Orestes. - - Thank you for sending the mining equipment, I'll distribute it to - the crew when the time seems fitting, as per your recommendation. - --END-OF-PREFACE- ---------------------------------------------------------------- - - - You still haven't sent the mining equipment, or anything for that - matter. Lending credence to my theory that these messages aren't - reaching anyone. - - I still, for some reason, feel the desire to update you. There - are things to tell. Events that happen. Even in this remote - corner of the universe, populated only by three people and a - bunch of strange, inert, red crystals, things happen. - - If reminds me of something a philosopher once said, when talking - about 'life' (Life, after all, and the inexplicable human desire - to find more of it, is why we're here). - - We usually think of things beginning when life appears. That - is, before life, there are no real 'events'. Life is activity, - motion, desire, growth. In absence of life, there are just rocks - planets, stars, etc. We are fascinated about the question of the - beginning of life, that strange moment when one cell first - divides into two. - - But, the philosopher said, there is no life without difference - and before what we call 'life' appeared there was difference. The - universe is full of differences. Or, to be more exact, the - universe made up of of processes, and processes are just a series - of differentiations. - - We think of life as continuous, as having a history (genealogy), - a clear beginning and end. But this sense of life, the one that - we cling to so dearly, the reason we voyage out into the void in - search of it, this sense of life is a construct. A story we tell - ourselves to try to make sense of the constant differentiation - and change. Underneath it all is the force of pure difference; - the relation between this molecule and another, between a 1 and a - 0, between the geology of this 'dead' rock floating in space and - 'that' one. So, if you're tracking a process of differentiation - across the universe, 'events' are happening all the time. - - Not with these crystals though. There really is nothing going on - with them, in any sense. - - All that's been happening are the overly-familiar kinds of - 'events'. PINK ate the last of the apples. I couldn't believe it. - She ate it right in front of me, like it was a perverse act of - sadism. I don't get her sometimes. She is usually so calm and - rational. - - NAVY is sulking or has taken a vow of silence or something and - has become as unresponsive as the crystals. I ended up screaming - my head off at him the other night. I feel bad about it now. - These kinds of 'events' tire me. I wish sometimes I could be less - 'me', less 'alive', and just be a pebble on the beach or - something. Being slowly eroded by a wave. - - - ----------------------------------------------------------------- -Complied by the Werner H. Young Terminal Emulator - -Info: Simple A.I., designed on-site for executing -systems maintenance tasks and exchanging messages between the -Orestes outpost and the Arsinoe. - -Built by Werner Young (2113-2151). - -Names of persons have been masked to protect their identity. ----------------------------------------------------------------- - -]]> - - - monara - On the way to Callisto - Log File - seek@cosmic.voyage (seek) - gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/monara/4-esso-logfile.txt - gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/monara/4-esso-logfile.txt - Sat, 13 Mar 2021 15:46:21 GMT - -Source : Monara (swifter-f440p) QEC -Type : log file -Software : Log Manager v1.05 -User : Esso98 -State : sent -Date : 23-12-3020 -Time : 00:23:18 - -I left Ganymede yesterday evening. What a nice -time to start a journey. The sky was freaking red. -Anyway now I am already few thousand files away. -I was just staring at the window for a couple of -minutes now, I mean it would be a waste if I did -not enjoy the scene of leaving this beautiful sphere. - -I turned on the auto pilot mode. Sat down at my -small table, popped open a cold sprunk and opened -my Thinkpad. Played with it for a couple of minutes, -read some articles I've saved to the hard drive. -I have already passed beyond the area with internet. -So now until I get to Callisto. It's just me and the -QEC. - -Oh, what is this! there are some articles about -some hacktivists cyber protesting against government's -decision to join hands with proprietary software -companies. I wonder why those people can't -understand that sometimes, history repeats. We humans -have already destroyed a beautiful planet. Thanks to -capitalism, stupid organizations and arrogant rulers. - -I kind of feel like I am having some mental -issues. Sometimes I act like I care about the -universe. But sometimes I become ruthless and stupid. -Whatever sometimes I just wonder, if how things -good it could have been if I got to spend my -childhood with the nature. Trees, animals and beautiful -sunsets. - -Instead of that, thanks to our capitalist and -communist ancestors I had to live among the dirt, -killing rats and stealing from humans. Thinking about -that past make my anger towards humans pop up -just like a small spark of fire hidden in the ashes. -There are multiple occasions I felt like I want to -blow up everyone. - -Hmmm this sprunk is nice. I closed down my Thinkpad, -got up did some stretchings. And came back to the -pilot compartment. I wonder if how many, or what -kind of people do read my logs. -]]> -