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You touch the wall.

Static fills your vision then is replaced by an image of a young woman sitting at a desk in a bedroom with her back to you. She's studying a three dimensional grid hovering above her desk made of a glowing material with many whorls, puckers, and folds distorting the grid. As you observe the young woman, the grid duplicates itself and both remain suspended above her desk.

The young woman turns her head to face you and regards you coldly. Without turning from you, she quickly pokes both grids with her index finger. Your vision fades to static once again, then fades to black.

...

You're standing in a nondescript room.

There is a door opening to a hallway that vanishes in darkness to your left. Before you is a man looking at you with a thoughtful expression on his face.

"Back so soon?" he says.

What do you do?

You turn to your left and start down the hallway. The hallway is lit with fluorescent lights. The walls of the hallway are red, decorated in an ornate pattern of gold paint made of geometric shapes and letters you don't recognize.

You reach a point where you can't see the room you came from or the end of the hallway. What do you do?

You ask the man for directions.

"You want to know which way to go?" replies the man. "You tell me! You appear out of nowhere before my eyes and ask me?"

He gives you a rueful look. "You're the first person I've met here...the first human anyway." He raises his eyebrows emphatically. "Well, I don't know if it's what your looking for, but go down the hall, take a left, and knock on the door. She'll tell you what to do from there."

You're still in the room. What do you do?

You're standing in a nondescript room.

There is a door opening to a hallway that vanishes in darkness to your left. Before you is a man staring at you with a bemused expression on his face.

What do you do?

now that I know what it is, I'm sure I've seen a thrasher, but I don't know what species
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxostoma
#birdside

@maltimore all of those are conventional indexing except the last, but there's no conventional way to index days off the week--just standards that impose one way or another

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon eh. my client obscures the top line, so it's not like i skipped it

@AstroAnt neat! what did you ask him about? general astronaut stuff?

everytime someone uses "eutopia" to mean something good, a little part of me dies

@fisunov well that is an idea. I figure we'll make controlled atmospheres for habitation, but using cultured human tissue to explore environmental effects in space sounds like a pretty cool research direction

@Pat

@fisunov they're doing a face next? 😬

I don't hear #Defiance talked about much, but it was a solid TV show. May not have broken ground on this, but it's one of the only TV shows I know to go into any depth on the syncretic culture and politics that could develop among multiple sentient species on earth. Star Trek is my closest parallel, but it differs in that most species characteristics were depicted through individual differences on an interpersonal level, and generally there was the framing of some mission or conflict which deemphasized cultural aspects. Maybe Babylon 5 has some of the aspects I see in Defiance, but the scale there is a bit too grand to focus in on control of the local mine or the mayoral election.

also, there were some really memorable characters in there. Datak Tarr stands out to me: he was a scoundrel, a crook, and a murderer, but damn if he wasn't compelling-- just the will to survive, even when there was only the slimmest hope, kinda made me respect the jerk.

Then there was the bond between Nolan and Irisa: although they weren't individually that interesting to me, the ways that dynamic shifted over the series as we learned about Nolan's past and Irisa's destiny really gave me something to think about between episodes.