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85 lines
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Transmission Log - Orestes
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Author: Green
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Auto-generating preface...
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A transmission log by GREEN. He thinks the messages aren't
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reaching anyone. He philosophizes about the concept of life. He
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complains about his fellow human-inhabitants at the Orestes.
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Thank you for sending the mining equipment, I'll distribute it to
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the crew when the time seems fitting, as per your recommendation.
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-END-OF-PREFACE-
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You still haven't sent the mining equipment, or anything for that
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matter. Lending credence to my theory that these messages aren't
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reaching anyone.
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I still, for some reason, feel the desire to update you. There
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are things to tell. Events that happen. Even in this remote
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corner of the universe, populated only by three people and a
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bunch of strange, inert, red crystals, things happen.
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If reminds me of something a philosopher once said, when talking
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about 'life' (Life, after all, and the inexplicable human desire
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to find more of it, is why we're here).
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We usually think of things beginning when life appears. That
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is, before life, there are no real 'events'. Life is activity,
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motion, desire, growth. In absence of life, there are just rocks
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planets, stars, etc. We are fascinated about the question of the
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beginning of life, that strange moment when one cell first
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divides into two.
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But, the philosopher said, there is no life without difference
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and before what we call 'life' appeared there was difference. The
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universe is full of differences. Or, to be more exact, the
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universe made up of of processes, and processes are just a series
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of differentiations.
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We think of life as continuous, as having a history (genealogy),
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a clear beginning and end. But this sense of life, the one that
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we cling to so dearly, the reason we voyage out into the void in
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search of it, this sense of life is a construct. A story we tell
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ourselves to try to make sense of the constant differentiation
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and change. Underneath it all is the force of pure difference;
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the relation between this molecule and another, between a 1 and a
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0, between the geology of this 'dead' rock floating in space and
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'that' one. So, if you're tracking a process of differentiation
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across the universe, 'events' are happening all the time.
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Not with these crystals though. There really is nothing going on
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with them, in any sense.
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All that's been happening are the overly-familiar kinds of
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'events'. PINK ate the last of the apples. I couldn't believe it.
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She ate it right in front of me, like it was a perverse act of
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sadism. I don't get her sometimes. She is usually so calm and
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rational.
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NAVY is sulking or has taken a vow of silence or something and
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has become as unresponsive as the crystals. I ended up screaming
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my head off at him the other night. I feel bad about it now.
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These kinds of 'events' tire me. I wish sometimes I could be less
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'me', less 'alive', and just be a pebble on the beach or
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something. Being slowly eroded by a wave.
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Complied by the Werner H. Young Terminal Emulator
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Info: Simple A.I., designed on-site for executing
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systems maintenance tasks and exchanging messages between the
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Orestes outpost and the Arsinoe.
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Built by Werner Young (2113-2151).
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Names of persons have been masked to protect their identity.
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