Today’s mess: Pressed protein wafers, CarboGel Type-1, kale (massaged).
Special: Teriyaki Croissants
Special: Teriyaki Croissants
Whoever moved the cargo containers in Pod 4 without updating the manifest, please see me immediately. This is not optional.
Ship time is now 04:00. Now commencing alpha shift.
Advisory: All systems nominal.
@phia, is the bar open this evening?
Yeah, come on by.
Excellent. I think I need something stronger than usual.
Ship time is now 12:00. Now commencing beta shift.
The artifact has not begun repeating. Output patterns remain non-cyclical. The window is still open.
Professor Crabtree! He lives!
Wait. “The window is still open.” What does that mean exactly?
The first artifact started looping almost immediately after the initial exchange. Same Record, over and over. That’s how it ended.
This one hasn’t done that. It responded and then just … kept going. It’s still receptive.
So we could transmit again?
In theory. But that might trigger a loop. If they transmit more and it locks into repeating, that might be it. We’re done.
So … we should be careful?
We haven’t finished processing the data we’ve gotten so far. Yes, we should be careful. And yet.
And yet you live within the limits of shifts you cannot see.
I have already spoken.
Alert: Network connectivity of 55% below nominal.
Ship time is now 20:00. Now commencing gamma shift.
@ship
Alert: Network connectivity of 55% below nominal.
Network now nominal.