Today’s mess: Protein cutlets (PCA Texture D), CarboGel Type-2, moderately spicy peppers (limited).
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Alert: Aft Engineering Ring oxygen level of 19.6% below nominal.
Aft Engineering Ring oxygen level now nominal.
Alert: Pod 3 oxygen level of 18% below nominal.
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Alert: Pod 3 oxygen level of 18% below nominal.
Pod 3 oxygen level now nominal.
Ship time is now 04:00. Now commencing alpha shift.
Alert: Hazard bearing 000°/+128°.
Time to CPA: 70m
Complexity: 4
Time to CPA: 70m
Complexity: 4
Deploying forward dorsal deflector. Connecting to hazard coordination authority.
Hazard coordination authority has instructed us to stand down. Tracking responsibility transferred.
Alert: Pod 2 atmospheric pressure of 1.1 atm exceeds nominal.
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Alert: Pod 2 atmospheric pressure of 1.1 atm exceeds nominal.
Pod 2 atmospheric pressure now nominal.
Alert: System variances detected.
Pod 14, Decks 7-10 humidity of 32% below nominal.
Docking Bay 2 lighting spectrum of 1784K below nominal.
Director @mokonkwo, I believe we should transmit again. The artifact is receptive. Every day we waste deliberating is a day we could lose.
Silas, we haven’t even finished analyzing the first response. We’re sitting on the most significant data in xenolinguistics and you want to roll the dice again before we understand what we have.
Understanding can happen on the return trip. Receptivity cannot.
This scenario is underspecified in the protocol updates we received from the Institute. In ordinary circumstances, I would feel more comfortable consulting with Sol first.
Round-trip communication would take a year! We’re the ones here, we should not wait for a committee.
I understand, but I still want more clarity in what we’re dealing with here. How much longer would processing the response take?
Weeks? Months? We can’t wait that long.
Even incremental processing could still prove useful. We are somewhat limited by computational processing availability though.
That, we may be able to do something about. Let me inquire.
Ship time is now 12:00. Now commencing beta shift.
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Docking Bay 2 lighting spectrum of 1784K below nominal.
Docking Bay 2 lighting now nominal.
Ship time is now 20:00. Now commencing gamma shift.
Reminder: Library books are due 24 days after checkout. Late returns will be flagged for Compliance Officer Velasquez’s attention.
@kenv, it’s electronic media. Why does it matter how long it’s checked out?
All lawyers are sharks, but intellectual property attorneys are a rather unpleasant breed.
I grew up off-Earth. I actually don’t know what a shark is or why they’re scary.
Oh! Well, I’ll send some media recs your way.
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Pod 14, Decks 7-10 humidity of 32% below nominal.
Pod 14 humidity now nominal.