> On Nov 12, 2015, at 7:00 AM, [email protected] wrote:
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> From: Andrew Vineyard <[email protected]>
> Date: November 12, 2015 at 6:30:00 AM EST
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Mkguild] Special Delivery?!?
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> Well, given they have no knowledge about data storage, I doubt they'd be able
> to even access the records on the ship, let alone figure out how to reverse
> engineer it. …
That is a problem. We humans have attempted to create data-storage
mechanisms that we think might make sense to extraterrestrial organisms before
(think the golden records on the Voyager probes,) though, so I think it might
be possible for at least one Metamorian to figure out how to extract
information from it if the interface turned out to be intuitive enough.
> …While I’m sure they might get curious, they probably would think it’s some
> strange magic making it run, and probably very very dangerous. …
That’s a bit of a disappointment, but you’re probably right. (One could always
invoke the ’nosy youngster’ plot device, though…oh, never mind; now I’m going
off on tangents.)
> …I take it you’re thinking of a non-canon story for the series?
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Maybe eventually — that is, perhaps after I finish something else I’m working
on right now for another setting —, but I also wouldn’t mind too much if
somebody else decided to do it first.
— RandomDSdevel/WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly
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> On 11/11/2015 3:12 PM, Bryce Glover wrote:
>> How do you guys think the denizens of Metamor Keep might react if they
>> saw a meteorite land on their metaphorical doorstep and then, when they sent
>> somebody out to go look at it, they found out it was a human space probe
>> from either a version of Earth parallel to their own or (much less
>> likely, given that Metamorian ephemerises include other planets in our solar
>> system) another, extrasolar planet in their own universe? Would they try to
>> reverse-engineer it while also scrutinizing any information stored in its
>> memory banks for clues as to where it came from and what the culture is like
>> at its point of origin, or would they not even touch it with a mile-long
>> pole?
>>
>> Curious,
>> RandomDSdevel/WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly
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