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[SilentAvenger]

[SPEC/WONDERING] Perplex city's street and monument names

[Sasuntsi Davit]

The names are familiar becuase they probably have had some of the same people as us in history, like einstein, avogadro, newton etc.

[Buceph]

If it's because they share the same people in history then they would have come up in the academy at some point.

I think it's a tribute to those scientists who have bridged the gap between their world and our world. I also think that PPC has been watching us for longer than we appreciate.

This is pure [spec] and gut feeling but those are my impressions.

[djrazz]

Re: [SPEC/WONDERING] Perplex city's street and monument name

[vibration13]

It kind of doesnt make sense to me though. Don't they have any great minds of thier own? I'd have thought that an advanced city of puzzle solvers proud of their intellectual capabilities would be keen to celebrate their own greats.
It doesnt quite fit... maybe there's a puzzle in there somewhere...

[hannah]

Re: [SPEC/WONDERING] Perplex city's street and monument name

[djrazz]

more likely if' it's not a puzzle it's just using commly know names to create a sense of knowing whats going on insted of having 2000 names noone ever heard of and then trying to figure out what umlout hamerstteiner
did as a perplexian scientist by using our names we create part of the story in our heads without and story at all

[Salkunh]

maybe all our great scientists are actually perplexians.

The error logs already suggest the Academy sit and observe us and see us as a social experiment. Maybe they sent Perplexians over in order to force us to advance. "what effect does teaching them Newtonian physics have on the society" for example.

[erekose]

[dopefiend]

couple of specs on this:

1) the perplexian's interest in earth lit means they formed a lot of their philiosophical/scientific ideas around our discoveries... they read our books and adopted out theories, maybe developing them firther than we have

2) Perplex City was founded by an earthling/earthlings who either went back in time to set it up, or turned it into the city it is today by reorganising the street plan at some stage.[/sup]

[theMoo]

If we take it that they don't have a recent shared history with us (recent = 500 or 1000 years) then they can't possibly share a language with us.

We know from the academy site that they have linguists who have learnt many of our languages so I think that all information provided to us is being translated into English so we can understand it.

Maybe they have used the names of the great scientists of our world in place of the names of those who made similar discoveries in their world?

[angelesque]

Maybe 'our' great scientists came from Perplex City??!

Apparently aliens have been here for years you know

[wintermute_au]

im thinking that maybe we dont share a language and things r being translated... the main reason being that their 'ancient tongue' doesn't line up with an ancient tongue that influenced english... (unless someone can tell me Lek means silver or something similar?)

i like the 'our scientists r perplexian' spec just cos its different

...for now i'm assuming that "common history" means that we followed a common path/development, rather than they're literally shared...

[yanka]