diff --git a/gopher/Melvin P Feltersnatch/002.txt b/gopher/Melvin P Feltersnatch/002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c2c7efb --- /dev/null +++ b/gopher/Melvin P Feltersnatch/002.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +I think I slept. I'm not sure how that makes sense without a body. +One moment I was thinking about things (those little plastic tabs +that hold bread bags closed, if you must know), and then I was in +a green field with a cow that was also my Aunt Hilga, and she was +trying to tell me to turn around but I couldn't. Classic dream +nonsense, right? Only, it didn't feel any different than this, +whatever it is. There was no divide between awake and asleep. +Normally I'd close my eyes and lie down, or shoot up in bed and +scream... something. + +But really, those plastic things, do they have any other purpose? +Did someone make them for bread bags and everyone for centuries +just went along with it? We have all these other gizmos for +closing and opening things and keeping them air tight, but bread +bags were somehow overlooked? Is it cheaper? I can't imagine so. + +Oh shit, that's a comet! I'm going to get a closer look... diff --git a/gopher/The Thicc Ghost Ship/the-first-thicc-story.txt b/gopher/The Thicc Ghost Ship/the-first-thicc-story.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5d7a04b --- /dev/null +++ b/gopher/The Thicc Ghost Ship/the-first-thicc-story.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +Hello and welcome to the first thicc ship story. +This ship used to be mighty thicc before the nasty. +armies came and in and tried to steal her from all of us. +This makes the armies really evil. Due to that. diff --git a/gopher/Voortrekker/12-headlines-september-5-11-2421.txt b/gopher/Voortrekker/12-headlines-september-5-11-2421.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1700e39 --- /dev/null +++ b/gopher/Voortrekker/12-headlines-september-5-11-2421.txt @@ -0,0 +1,316 @@ +From: Universe Today +To: Nikolaos Soloviev +Delivered-To: Nikolaos Soloviev +Received: from qec2.helio.earthsys.gov + by qec.sv14417 + with ESMTPS id 4D4A053AB9513878 + for +Received: from relay4.qec1.ganymede.earthsys.gov + by qec2.helio.earthsys.gov +Received: from relay2.qec6.rs001.l4.earthsys.gov + by relay4.qec1.ganymede.earthsys.gov +Received: from mta192.sendcast.net + by relay1.local.rs001.l4.earthsys.gov +Subject: Headlines: September 5-11, 2421 +Date: 12 Sep 2421 00:03:21 +0000 +Date-Local: 29 Mar 2419 03:27:21 +0000 +Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf8" + +HEADLINES FOR SEPTEMBER 5 - SEPTEMBER 11, 2421 + +⦿ MOON-TITAN TREATY "ABSURD" CLAIMS ANDERS MAXWELL + +September 5 (UPI) - Former president of Earth, Anders Maxwell, in a +September 4 appearance on "This Week Tonight" discounted persistent +rumors that the governments of Luna and Titan will soon announce an +alliance. + +"Look," a visibly agitated Maxwell said. "Even if we're going to +grant these secessionist, scofflaw regimes the courtesy of being +called governments, there is no chance they're going to throw in +together. After all the time and effort they spent insisting they +owed nothing to Earth and should be allowed to do just as they +please regardless of any effect it might have on the mother planet, +to imagine that either of them might turn around now and give the +other, or anyone, a veto over any action they might choose to +take - it's frankly absurd." + +Maxwell dismissed claims of increased traffic between Titan and +Luna as merely economic in nature. "Smuggling, that's what they're +doing," Maxwell said. "Dodging the Titan embargo. Well, we'll see +about that. I have it on good authority that the General Assembly +is considering a bill to extend that embargo to Luna. Let's see how +they do when neither of them has any more access to insystem +markets, and all they can do is sell to rock-hopping belter scum +and those layabout Martian miners." + +Reached for comment, a spokesman for Public Information noted that +Maxwell has recently returned to public life from a five-year term +of custodial supervision imposed following his impeachment for +peculation, and no longer has any role in government. "We +appreciate Mr. Maxwell's prior service, despite its ignoble end," +the spokesman said. "His current statements are those of a private +individual, and cannot be taken as representative of any position +Earth's government may or may not have on this or any other +matter." + +⦿ MILITARY BUILDUP RUMORS "FALSE" SAYS PUBLIC INFORMATION + +September 6 (UPI) - In response to rumors of a military buildup +ahead of a widely predicted Moon-Titan treaty announcement, a +spokeswoman from Earth's Office of Public Information addressed a +press conference with this firm statement: + +"The President has recently become aware of rumors swirling around +various in- and out-system bulletins about potential responses to +the political situation between Earth, Earth's moon, and the FTL +research colony on Titan. + +"Let me be clear: Rumors of a military buildup are categorically +false. We are actively investigating these claims, and expect soon +to report that we have identified their origin. In the meantime, +our representatives to Earth's moon and the Titan colony have been +instructed to communicate to their counterparts our most sincere +wishes for continued peaceful relations." + +The spokeswoman declined to entertain questions. + +⦿ MARTIAN STRIKE ENTERS MONTH 4; "STRONG MEASURES" SAYS GOVERNOR + +September 7 (MNN) - Today begins the fourth month of the Martian +mining guilds' general strike, with no sign of substantive +concessions from either side. Martian governor Reinhard Ritter, +backed by a squad of armed guards, made an appearance outside Red +Rock Guild headquarters to warn guild leaders that they are +"risking strong measures" unless they resolve to come to the +negotiating table very soon. + +"The Martian Trust has listened in the past to your legitimate +concerns, and we will do so again," Governor Ritter said in a +prepared statement. "We understand that a degree of give and take +is necessary for a productive working relationship. However, we +will not forever tolerate work stoppages, sabotage, and other +undisciplined manifestations of directionless unrest. I beseech +you: Do not make it necessary for the Trust to investigate options +beyond amicable resolution." + +A representative of the Red Rock Guild responded, in a statement +directly to Mars Newsnet, that Governor Ritter's claims amount to +"a self-serving denial of the lethally dangerous working +conditions, and the lack of medical and economic support for the +hard-working Martian labor force, which have driven us to take +these measures in defense of our lives and our loved ones." + +Asked for comment on these statements, the Martian Trust +headquarters in Chicago said only that they have complete +confidence in Governor Ritter's ability to "effectively resolve" +the situation, and that the governor has the full support of the +Martian Trust. + +Shortly before press time, a self-described spokesperson for Ceres +Hollow sent a recorded statement which, as far as could be +understood, expressed strong support for the Martian guilds' +position, and threatened "dire consequences" should the Martian +Trust resort to coercion. Reached for brief comment on the +retaliatory claim, retired wing general and military analyst Nathan +Coopersmith described it as "nonsense". + +⦿ GREEN GANYMEDE "SEVERELY IMPACTED" BY JOVIAN WEATHER EXTREMES + +September 7 (UPI) - In the latest blow to the prospects of the +Green Ganymede Project, radiation flares produced by fluctuations +in Jupiter's upper cloud layers have "severely impacted" the +viability of the project's pilot farm domes. + +"We're still working to understand the full extent of the damage," +the project's engineering head said today. "It will take some time +to be certain, but at this point we're not confident that any of +this season's crops will survive. We're already seeing germline +mutations and outright inviability of some specimens across all our +species, including the radiation-hardened cultivars." + +The joint project between Earth and Earth's moon has seen a number +of setbacks over recent months. This is the seventh crop failure in +the project's two years of operation, and commentators across the +inner planets have suggested that farming on Ganymede may prove +fundamentally unworkable. Supporters argue that not enough time has +passed to make any final determination possible, and a spokesman +for the External Resource Administration said that Earth's position +in the project will not change as a result of this latest bad news. + +"We have identified the largest single cause of Earth's resource +crisis as the investment of resources in outer system colonies," +the spokesman said in a prepared statement. "The Green Ganymede +Project offers a real prospect of redressing this imbalance by +enabling the outer system to return some measure of those resources +and help speed Earth's recovery. We will work to ensure the project +succeeds in every way we can." + +In after-hours trading today, Archer DuPont Monsanto stock dropped +over three percent on the news. + +⦿ FERTILITY SOCIETY: 2421 "WELL BELOW EXPECTATIONS" SO FAR + +September 8 (UPI) - The Fertility Society of Earth today reported +that total births thus far across the planet are less than half the +society's target projection for the year to date. Analysts say this +tracks with the general birthrate trend over the last fifty years, +but the Society strikes a cautionary note: + +"As Earth's economy, climate, and biosphere continue to recover in +accord with government projections," said a Fertility Society +spokeswoman, "it is disappointing that our citizens' birth rates +continue to lag behind. Sustaining and expanding our current growth +requires that we produce a sufficient labor and tax base to do the +work that lies ahead. If we will not make the necessary sacrifices, +we cannot expect to maintain the preeminence throughout the system +that humanity's cradle deserves." + +Shortly before press time, the Internal Resource Administration +released this prepared statement: "In line with economic goals for +2422 and the first half of this decade more generally, next year's +individual responsibility surcharge will increase by 25% for +citizens filing singly and 15% for members of married couples +filing jointly. An increase to family subsidy refunds is currently +under consideration. As always, we remind the populace of Earth +that the surest way to prosperity, for each of us and all together, +is a large and healthy family." + +⦿ WYOMING RIOTS "FALSE REPORTING" SAYS POPULATION ADMINISTRATION + +September 8 (UPI) - A spokesman for the Population Administration's +Landmass Optimization Office stated today that recent claims of +rioting among newly rehoused residents of the Wyoming New Prospects +Facility are "false reporting". + +"While some isolated incidents have occurred among members of the +August and September intake classes, these incidents are just that: +isolated. The recent claims by fringe commentators of a general +outbreak of violence contain no truth whatsoever, and such false +reporting only imperils the vitally important goals of the +optimization project as a whole. Our targeted intervention teams +are as always prepared to ensure the safety and security of all +residents both within the New Prospects Facility and outside it," +the spokesman said in a prepared statement. + +When asked about reports of ongoing resource shortfalls among +private contractors tasked with supplying subsistence supplies and +agricultural equipment to the facility, the spokesman declined to +confirm or deny, stating that federal privilege applies to all +information about contract negotiations in progress. + +⦿ ROSS 128 VENTURES DENIES CRASH CLAIMS: "PREPOSTEROUS" + +September 9 (Investors Daily) - At a press conference this morning, +Koenraad Gertodtenhaupt, a senior vice president of Ross 128 +Ventures, LLC, stated firmly that there is no truth in recent Lunar +claims of a colony ship crash. + +The ship in question is 'Voortrekker', a prototype torch ship which +for the last 25 years has been en route to the nearby star Ross 128. +For the past several weeks, various sources close to the Lunar +government have claimed that 'Voortrekker' did not, in fact, +recently land on its target planet, but instead crashed there with +the loss of much of its crew. + +In a brief statement at the entrance of the historic Chrysler +Building, where the Ross 128 firm has its offices, Gertodtenhaupt +said: + +"The board of Ross 128 Ventures wishes most firmly to dissuade +these rumors regarding our friends aboard Voortrekker. The ship +made planetfall just over a month ago, and her former crew are hard +at work in the early stages of developing one of the first +permanent human habitations outside Earth's own solar system." + +"We are in regular QEC contact with our friends at Ross 128," +Gertodtenhaupt continued. "at all levels up to and including Nick +Soloviev, the chairman of Voortrekker's own board. Nothing we have +heard inclines us to confirm the dangerous and irresponsible rumors +spread by sources on Earth's moon who should know better than to +claim such falsehoods are true news. Such actions can only +complicate the colonists' work, and strike fear into the hearts of +their families and loved ones back home." + +Gertodtenhaupt took no questions before reentering the building. + +⦿ SYSTEMWIDE WAGNER REVIVAL "SUSPENDED" AMID ASSAULT CLAIMS + +September 10 (UPI) - In the wake of sexual malconduct allegations +made against conductor Watanabe Fezile by several musicians now +under his baton, the Three Planets Reinforced Symphony announced +today that their interplanetary tour is "suspended", with Watanabe +and his accusers recalled to Earth for talks potentially leading to +arbitration of the claims. + +"We regret the necessity of this action," said a spokesman for the +Three Planets board. "We must, however, treat these claims with +utmost gravity, and we're sure our audiences will understand." + +At press time, no statement had been made regarding alternate tour +dates or refunds. + +⦿ MARKET WATCH + +This week's sponsor is Chatham, Truman, and Hove, Portfolio +Managers. We've helped individuals and families build strong +financial foundations for over one hundred and fifty years. We can +help you build your own. For a free initial consultation, message +hello@cth-portfolio.com. + +- (30219) Personal security sector set to rise through EOY: five + companies to watch in '22 + +- (23143) CCE Q3 earnings above expected as crime rates soar: + coming trends in custodial education + +- (59997) VR gaming industry profits spike on NAM companionship + services ban: the three hottest stocks right now + +- (17521) Redimed Ltd revises Q4 projected revenue on upcoming + regulatory changes: what's next for the sector + +- (95474) General Kinetics Space Systems announces new contract: + best positions in defense for individual investors + +For more details, message tip numbers to marketwatch@universe.today. + +Disclaimer: Content included in Market Watch is information of a +general nature and does not constitute investment advice as defined +by the Financial Services Reform Omnibus Act of 2413. 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"Even if we're going to +grant these secessionist, scofflaw regimes the courtesy of being +called governments, there is no chance they're going to throw in +together. After all the time and effort they spent insisting they +owed nothing to Earth and should be allowed to do just as they +please regardless of any effect it might have on the mother planet, +to imagine that either of them might turn around now and give the +other, or anyone, a veto over any action they might choose to +take - it's frankly absurd." + +Maxwell dismissed claims of increased traffic between Titan and +Luna as merely economic in nature. "Smuggling, that's what they're +doing," Maxwell said. "Dodging the Titan embargo. Well, we'll see +about that. I have it on good authority that the General Assembly +is considering a bill to extend that embargo to Luna. Let's see how +they do when neither of them has any more access to insystem +markets, and all they can do is sell to rock-hopping belter scum +and those layabout Martian miners." + +Reached for comment, a spokesman for Public Information noted that +Maxwell has recently returned to public life from a five-year term +of custodial supervision imposed following his impeachment for +peculation, and no longer has any role in government. "We +appreciate Mr. Maxwell's prior service, despite its ignoble end," +the spokesman said. "His current statements are those of a private +individual, and cannot be taken as representative of any position +Earth's government may or may not have on this or any other +matter." + +⦿ MILITARY BUILDUP RUMORS "FALSE" SAYS PUBLIC INFORMATION + +September 6 (UPI) - In response to rumors of a military buildup +ahead of a widely predicted Moon-Titan treaty announcement, a +spokeswoman from Earth's Office of Public Information addressed a +press conference with this firm statement: + +"The President has recently become aware of rumors swirling around +various in- and out-system bulletins about potential responses to +the political situation between Earth, Earth's moon, and the FTL +research colony on Titan. + +"Let me be clear: Rumors of a military buildup are categorically +false. We are actively investigating these claims, and expect soon +to report that we have identified their origin. In the meantime, +our representatives to Earth's moon and the Titan colony have been +instructed to communicate to their counterparts our most sincere +wishes for continued peaceful relations." + +The spokeswoman declined to entertain questions. + +⦿ MARTIAN STRIKE ENTERS MONTH 4; "STRONG MEASURES" SAYS GOVERNOR + +September 7 (MNN) - Today begins the fourth month of the Martian +mining guilds' general strike, with no sign of substantive +concessions from either side. Martian governor Reinhard Ritter, +backed by a squad of armed guards, made an appearance outside Red +Rock Guild headquarters to warn guild leaders that they are +"risking strong measures" unless they resolve to come to the +negotiating table very soon. + +"The Martian Trust has listened in the past to your legitimate +concerns, and we will do so again," Governor Ritter said in a +prepared statement. "We understand that a degree of give and take +is necessary for a productive working relationship. However, we +will not forever tolerate work stoppages, sabotage, and other +undisciplined manifestations of directionless unrest. I beseech +you: Do not make it necessary for the Trust to investigate options +beyond amicable resolution." + +A representative of the Red Rock Guild responded, in a statement +directly to Mars Newsnet, that Governor Ritter's claims amount to +"a self-serving denial of the lethally dangerous working +conditions, and the lack of medical and economic support for the +hard-working Martian labor force, which have driven us to take +these measures in defense of our lives and our loved ones." + +Asked for comment on these statements, the Martian Trust +headquarters in Chicago said only that they have complete +confidence in Governor Ritter's ability to "effectively resolve" +the situation, and that the governor has the full support of the +Martian Trust. + +Shortly before press time, a self-described spokesperson for Ceres +Hollow sent a recorded statement which, as far as could be +understood, expressed strong support for the Martian guilds' +position, and threatened "dire consequences" should the Martian +Trust resort to coercion. Reached for brief comment on the +retaliatory claim, retired wing general and military analyst Nathan +Coopersmith described it as "nonsense". + +⦿ GREEN GANYMEDE "SEVERELY IMPACTED" BY JOVIAN WEATHER EXTREMES + +September 7 (UPI) - In the latest blow to the prospects of the +Green Ganymede Project, radiation flares produced by fluctuations +in Jupiter's upper cloud layers have "severely impacted" the +viability of the project's pilot farm domes. + +"We're still working to understand the full extent of the damage," +the project's engineering head said today. "It will take some time +to be certain, but at this point we're not confident that any of +this season's crops will survive. We're already seeing germline +mutations and outright inviability of some specimens across all our +species, including the radiation-hardened cultivars." + +The joint project between Earth and Earth's moon has seen a number +of setbacks over recent months. This is the seventh crop failure in +the project's two years of operation, and commentators across the +inner planets have suggested that farming on Ganymede may prove +fundamentally unworkable. Supporters argue that not enough time has +passed to make any final determination possible, and a spokesman +for the External Resource Administration said that Earth's position +in the project will not change as a result of this latest bad news. + +"We have identified the largest single cause of Earth's resource +crisis as the investment of resources in outer system colonies," +the spokesman said in a prepared statement. "The Green Ganymede +Project offers a real prospect of redressing this imbalance by +enabling the outer system to return some measure of those resources +and help speed Earth's recovery. We will work to ensure the project +succeeds in every way we can." + +In after-hours trading today, Archer DuPont Monsanto stock dropped +over three percent on the news. + +⦿ FERTILITY SOCIETY: 2421 "WELL BELOW EXPECTATIONS" SO FAR + +September 8 (UPI) - The Fertility Society of Earth today reported +that total births thus far across the planet are less than half the +society's target projection for the year to date. Analysts say this +tracks with the general birthrate trend over the last fifty years, +but the Society strikes a cautionary note: + +"As Earth's economy, climate, and biosphere continue to recover in +accord with government projections," said a Fertility Society +spokeswoman, "it is disappointing that our citizens' birth rates +continue to lag behind. Sustaining and expanding our current growth +requires that we produce a sufficient labor and tax base to do the +work that lies ahead. If we will not make the necessary sacrifices, +we cannot expect to maintain the preeminence throughout the system +that humanity's cradle deserves." + +Shortly before press time, the Internal Resource Administration +released this prepared statement: "In line with economic goals for +2422 and the first half of this decade more generally, next year's +individual responsibility surcharge will increase by 25% for +citizens filing singly and 15% for members of married couples +filing jointly. An increase to family subsidy refunds is currently +under consideration. As always, we remind the populace of Earth +that the surest way to prosperity, for each of us and all together, +is a large and healthy family." + +⦿ WYOMING RIOTS "FALSE REPORTING" SAYS POPULATION ADMINISTRATION + +September 8 (UPI) - A spokesman for the Population Administration's +Landmass Optimization Office stated today that recent claims of +rioting among newly rehoused residents of the Wyoming New Prospects +Facility are "false reporting". + +"While some isolated incidents have occurred among members of the +August and September intake classes, these incidents are just that: +isolated. The recent claims by fringe commentators of a general +outbreak of violence contain no truth whatsoever, and such false +reporting only imperils the vitally important goals of the +optimization project as a whole. Our targeted intervention teams +are as always prepared to ensure the safety and security of all +residents both within the New Prospects Facility and outside it," +the spokesman said in a prepared statement. + +When asked about reports of ongoing resource shortfalls among +private contractors tasked with supplying subsistence supplies and +agricultural equipment to the facility, the spokesman declined to +confirm or deny, stating that federal privilege applies to all +information about contract negotiations in progress. + +⦿ ROSS 128 VENTURES DENIES CRASH CLAIMS: "PREPOSTEROUS" + +September 9 (Investors Daily) - At a press conference this morning, +Koenraad Gertodtenhaupt, a senior vice president of Ross 128 +Ventures, LLC, stated firmly that there is no truth in recent Lunar +claims of a colony ship crash. + +The ship in question is 'Voortrekker', a prototype torch ship which +for the last 25 years has been en route to the nearby star Ross 128. +For the past several weeks, various sources close to the Lunar +government have claimed that 'Voortrekker' did not, in fact, +recently land on its target planet, but instead crashed there with +the loss of much of its crew. + +In a brief statement at the entrance of the historic Chrysler +Building, where the Ross 128 firm has its offices, Gertodtenhaupt +said: + +"The board of Ross 128 Ventures wishes most firmly to dissuade +these rumors regarding our friends aboard Voortrekker. The ship +made planetfall just over a month ago, and her former crew are hard +at work in the early stages of developing one of the first +permanent human habitations outside Earth's own solar system." + +"We are in regular QEC contact with our friends at Ross 128," +Gertodtenhaupt continued. "at all levels up to and including Nick +Soloviev, the chairman of Voortrekker's own board. Nothing we have +heard inclines us to confirm the dangerous and irresponsible rumors +spread by sources on Earth's moon who should know better than to +claim such falsehoods are true news. Such actions can only +complicate the colonists' work, and strike fear into the hearts of +their families and loved ones back home." + +Gertodtenhaupt took no questions before reentering the building. + +⦿ SYSTEMWIDE WAGNER REVIVAL "SUSPENDED" AMID ASSAULT CLAIMS + +September 10 (UPI) - In the wake of sexual malconduct allegations +made against conductor Watanabe Fezile by several musicians now +under his baton, the Three Planets Reinforced Symphony announced +today that their interplanetary tour is "suspended", with Watanabe +and his accusers recalled to Earth for talks potentially leading to +arbitration of the claims. + +"We regret the necessity of this action," said a spokesman for the +Three Planets board. "We must, however, treat these claims with +utmost gravity, and we're sure our audiences will understand." + +At press time, no statement had been made regarding alternate tour +dates or refunds. + +⦿ MARKET WATCH + +This week's sponsor is Chatham, Truman, and Hove, Portfolio +Managers. We've helped individuals and families build strong +financial foundations for over one hundred and fifty years. We can +help you build your own. For a free initial consultation, message +hello@cth-portfolio.com. + +- (30219) Personal security sector set to rise through EOY: five + companies to watch in '22 + +- (23143) CCE Q3 earnings above expected as crime rates soar: + coming trends in custodial education + +- (59997) VR gaming industry profits spike on NAM companionship + services ban: the three hottest stocks right now + +- (17521) Redimed Ltd revises Q4 projected revenue on upcoming + regulatory changes: what's next for the sector + +- (95474) General Kinetics Space Systems announces new contract: + best positions in defense for individual investors + +For more details, message tip numbers to marketwatch@universe.today. + +Disclaimer: Content included in Market Watch is information of a +general nature and does not constitute investment advice as defined +by the Financial Services Reform Omnibus Act of 2413. 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