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networkinthenight2019-07-06 08:07 pm
donttalktome) wrote in networkinthenight2019-07-06 08:07 pm
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[text] @dr [open]
I'm feeling somewhat benevolent today.
After hearing a combination of your suggestions and complaints, I've decided to share.
You know, health of the community and all that.
For those of you still wildly inept with your tablets, just poke the letters that show up in a different color.
[Attached to this message, (a function not normally available for network posts,) is a link which yields several downloadable applications. Thankfully they're not malware or viruses, but hopefully helpful things, including:
- An app that translates text in images into spoken words. Good for the blind (or the illiterate). As it translates into the universal language of Beacon, it could also be used for deciphering foreign letters. Just snap a photo and you're good to go.
- A drawing app. Not as fancy as photoshop, but you can use your hands to make pretty pictures with a variety of colors and line weights.
- Related: a map app. It comes with a version of the current known map, which can be updated by the community. Shitposting will be promptly corrected. You stop that.
- And finally, a game: sudoku to be specific. Are you good at math and puzzles? Let's hope so, otherwise this will be pretty pointless for you. (This one's for you, Noctis.)
All four apps download together, so you're stuck with them even if you only wanted one. But the file isn't exactly labelled in anything other than random(?) numbers, so I suppose you wouldn't know that anyway.
Have fun, Beacon!]
After hearing a combination of your suggestions and complaints, I've decided to share.
You know, health of the community and all that.
For those of you still wildly inept with your tablets, just poke the letters that show up in a different color.
[Attached to this message, (a function not normally available for network posts,) is a link which yields several downloadable applications. Thankfully they're not malware or viruses, but hopefully helpful things, including:
- An app that translates text in images into spoken words. Good for the blind (or the illiterate). As it translates into the universal language of Beacon, it could also be used for deciphering foreign letters. Just snap a photo and you're good to go.
- A drawing app. Not as fancy as photoshop, but you can use your hands to make pretty pictures with a variety of colors and line weights.
- Related: a map app. It comes with a version of the current known map, which can be updated by the community. Shitposting will be promptly corrected. You stop that.
- And finally, a game: sudoku to be specific. Are you good at math and puzzles? Let's hope so, otherwise this will be pretty pointless for you. (This one's for you, Noctis.)
All four apps download together, so you're stuck with them even if you only wanted one. But the file isn't exactly labelled in anything other than random(?) numbers, so I suppose you wouldn't know that anyway.
Have fun, Beacon!]
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That doesn't sound ominous at all.
But thanks... I think.
What's your speciality, Doc?
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Strange beings lurking around stealing bodies. It's certainly not cheerful.
[And oh, Peter asked about his specialty. This is both his favorite and least favorite question. It's nice to have a legitimate excuse to brag, but it gets very tiring when your accolades go over everyone's heads.]
My specialty means nothing to half of you; I'm a terraformer.
My PhDs are specifically in astrochemistry and planetary engineering.
Which means nothing to most of you.
To put it in simpler terms, I have an extensive knowledge of geology, chemistry, ecology, programming, and other related fields.
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Huh.
I know the theory of terraforming, but it's not a science we'd managed to actually work out the feasibility of where/when I'm from. It was mostly being looked at with relation to Mars - although from what I understand, it's less that we lack the technology and more that our current governments are disinclined to allocate the economic resources to let it happen.
[ HE IS IMPRESSED THO... ]
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Mars was the first, so they're going the right direction.
It was a fairly difficult project, from what I understand, place didn't even have an atmosphere.
So credit where it's due.
It became a necessity in our case. The Earth was dying, so to speak, and there were too many humans on the planet.
I'm told it's much better now, but I've never been.
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But hey, can I pick your brain's about something? It's been bugging me on and off since I got here, and since you've been here a while, maybe you've got an answer.
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I doubt I'd find it much more pleasant than here.
Ask away.
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The plant life: I'm not a botanist so correct me if I'm wrong, but they look like they'd need to photosynthesise to help fuel their day-to-day plant-based activities and they're pretty green. So, how are the plants still alive? Obviously the byproduct is largely irrelevant as we're dead, which just begs further questions about what we're breathing or if we're breathing just based on muscle memory.
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The plants here seem to be, as far as I can tell, the same sort you might find on Earth.
They're even green, they have chlorophyll.
How they survive is honestly something against the laws of nature as I'm familiar with them.
But then, I'm not a botanist either.
As for breathing, go ahead and stop and see what happens.
I don't think it's just for show.