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James Valerius Kushim (epipalaeolithic) wrote in compass_network,
@ 2022-01-16 00:09:00

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katherine lokadóttir, miguel o'hara, peter parker (616), tom sully jr, ~james valerius kushim, ~liberty becket

This is new. And I don't say that often. Does anyone know which company made these phones? If they haven't made millions yet, they're going to. And that is before I think about the fact that this is an actual space station like something out of a sci-fi show.

Hi. I'm James. James Valerius Kushim. Is it true that strange things happen here, and people might believe anything, no matter how unusual?

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	miguel_ohara 2022-01-16 05:15 pm UTC (link)
	I haven't studied wormholes in detail, but they always seemed pretty fatal to me. Big Blue Dragon Guy is called Dean. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	epipalaeolithic 2022-01-17 03:50 pm UTC (link)
	I probably should have paid more attention to science. It moves on very quickly. Here's a thought, though. What if this really is the work of the gods? Dean. Interesting. I'll remember that. What about you? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	miguel_ohara 2022-01-17 03:53 pm UTC (link)
	Then I'll want to see their working-out. Miguel O'Hara. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	epipalaeolithic 2022-01-17 04:04 pm UTC (link)
	I'll add that to the long list of questions I have for them, should I ever meet them myself. Good to meet you. Are you a scientist? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	miguel_ohara 2022-01-17 10:05 pm UTC (link)
	I'm a geneticist. What about you? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	epipalaeolithic 2022-01-18 12:47 am UTC (link)
	I've done a lot of things, but right now I probably a web designer? Not that I'll be much use here for a while. It's all more advanced than what I'm used to. I'm guessing it's not done in C++ (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	miguel_ohara 2022-01-18 12:51 am UTC (link)
	C++? Holy shock, that's retro. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	epipalaeolithic 2022-01-18 12:59 am UTC (link)
	My point exactly. I'm lucky that I like learning new things. Although I'm not sure there's much of a market for it here anyway. Maybe I'd be better off taking up farming ~~again~~ or something. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	miguel_ohara 2022-01-20 09:30 pm UTC (link)
	There's so much to learn here, so you could take up learning more if you wanted? I don't know much about farming, though, beyond the theory of it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	epipalaeolithic 2022-01-21 04:07 pm UTC (link)
	Maybe. Farming's not the most interesting thing to do, anyway. Necessary for survival, most places, but I'm guessing not here? Before I got into computers, I was a journalist, but I haven't seen a newspaper, either. What do you think the station needs? What kind of work is going to be secure? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	miguel_ohara 2022-01-21 08:10 pm UTC (link)
	I don't know, I've only been here for eight days. But everything's free, so there wouldn't need to be a rush on working to get creds to pay for stuff, since you don't need them. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	epipalaeolithic 2022-01-24 04:28 pm UTC (link)
	It's all free? What's the catch? Or have you not figured it out yet either? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	libertybecket 2022-01-17 04:06 pm UTC (link)
	Apparently it depends on which dimensions you're moving through. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	miguel_ohara 2022-01-17 10:13 pm UTC (link)
	Are we talking the usual spatial dimensions, string theory dimensions or something else entirely? Disclaimer: I'm a biologist, not a physicist, so I don't know this in-depth. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

libertybecket
2022-01-18 12:43 am UTC (link)

My disclaimer is that I'm much more familiar with the old fashioned way of getting across the galaxy while in cryosleep, and I've only heard about this second-hand. But I'm going with something else. It's called L-space, and apparently the geometry is wrong and makes most people feel spacesick, but some lucky people can cope with it and become astrogators. The distances between places are much shorter in L-space than in our regular three dimensions, so I think 'wormhole' is a fair description, even if the guy who invented it might disagree.

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	tom_jr 2022-01-18 09:33 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, I want to know about this! uhm, hi, I'm Tommy. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	libertybecket 2022-01-19 10:28 pm UTC (link)
	Hello! I'm Liberty. What do you want to know? I might not be able to tell you, but I'll try. I was born on a colony world that was settled the slow way, but then people who used this L-space method settled on a nearby planet and they left Earth over a century after we did but got to our part of the galaxy almost at the same time. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tom_jr 2022-01-20 10:21 pm UTC (link)
	Your slow way is how Uncle Jake got to Pandora, but by the sounds of it, you travelled a lot further. He was in cryosleep for almost six years, not over a century. But I want to know anything else you can tell me about the L-Space method! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

libertybecket
2022-01-21 03:58 pm UTC (link)

I think we wanted to get very far away. I was the first one born on the new world, because my mom ignored the advice about cryosleep while pregnant being a bad idea and having a baby while trying to build a new settlement being a worse one. Not that I'm complaining, but that's how I got the symbolic name and all.

L-space. Okay. Let's see what I remember from Cardea, which is where the L-spacers live. The theory was invented by Stanley Lorentzen, which is why it's sort of named after him. The engine they use is called a Matsukata drive. You have to clear orbit, accelerate out normally, then activate the drive and it shifts a bubble of normal space around your craft into L-space, which is different dimensions that we usually can't perceive. Distances are different there. You need an astrogator to make sense of it and take you through, but they said they gave most of the rest of the crew sedatives because it can make you really nauseous. They said there were crazy stories about looking into L-space making some people insane, but that's probably just silly spacer talk. But apparently really young astrogators are best, which by Earth standards means 21? Maybe? Their brains can handle it better. Anyway when they get to the right point they turn off the drive and they go back into normal space, and maybe they went a hundred times further than they would have the normal way.

Apparently some Earth government tried to seize Lorentzen and Matsukata's work and it caused this secession war with the local colonies, but we were far enough away that it didn't affect us.

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