cosmic-backup/gopher/reypen/23200321.txt

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[VOICE COMMAND INITIATED. BEGIN AUTO TRANSCRIBE.]
[KAI] OK, first, check this out.
[VOICE A] What are you doing?
[VOICE IDENTIFIED: RAMA, MEDICAL]
[VOICE B] You're showing us a transcriber?
[VOICE IDENTIFIED: ATA, SHIP ENGINEER]
[KAI] This transriber is for the QEC. It's a separate system
that sends messages to Relay 1. It's a archival text system.
[RAMA] Who's going to read these archives?
[KAI] Who knows? Whoever visits Relay 1, I suppose.
[RAMA] How far is Relay 1 from Earth?
[ATA] Same as the sun. About 90 million miles away.
[RAMA] So people on Earth could get there.
[ATA] Yeah, if they were in our spaceship. But the distance is
so short you can't get to light speed. It'd take years
[RAMA] Hmmm... Still, it's something if we can send messages. Maybe
Relay 1 can send messages to Earth. How do I send a message?
[KAI] I added 'QEC' to the voice commands that the transcriber
understands. After you say 'QEC', the audio that you record will get
transcribed into text, along with your name. Then when you say 'QEC
END', it transmits.
It's a pretty dumb recorder, so I connected it to our transcribers,
which already have our voices.
I'm trying to figure out how to bypass this device because our
transcribers can do everything except send the transmission. That's
all part of the QEC.
[ATA] The QEC must point our transmitter array to Relay 1. I can get
you those angles.
[KAI] Relay 1 is L4 in SOL.
[ATA] Then we already know the angles.
[KAI] All right, let's work on that. I'll send out an 'all' message
so people can start to try it.
[ATA] Well, we have to see what the wake-up was all about though.