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Rob_Riv
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 		[UPDATE] May 17 - Sentinel - New Article
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Coralhouse Bequest Shocks Academy
By JEREMY CLARIDGE

Recently deceased Ruth Coralhouse has left a clause in her will for a PCL45 million bequest jointly to the Academy and the Centre for Reality Research. The grant comes with a specific goal -- the money must be used to develop a method for transporting physical matter between Perplex City and Earth, with the aim that her ashes be transported to Greece and scattered over the Mediterranean Ocean on Earth.

Academy representative Valerian Reynolds expressed dismay over the request. "We do of course appreciate the generosity that has led to this," she said. "But we are unsure how to proceed. The Academy does have a policy of refusing to be guided by conditions attached to gifts of money."

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Coralhouse's grandson and executor of her will, J. Randal Flynn, defended his grandmother's plans. "There's been speculation they're working on this sort of matter transportation already," he said. "They surely must be, in order to return the Cube to its place in the Museum."

CRR researcher Gordon Caius expressed the same dismay as Reynolds, though for different reasons. "Who knows if this is even safe to do?" he asked. "There's a huge risk from disease and parasites on the biological level, even assuming we could open any sort of portal without some sort of physics-driven catastrophe."

Reynolds suggested that the matter may be put before a private ethics review board at the Academy. "This is some very murky water," she said, "And no sum is enough for us to mar the Academy's sterling reputation for integrity and self-sufficiency."

Coralhouse's will also specified, "Until that happy day when my remains can be sent to those fascinating lands I never could visit in my living days, I would like my ashes to be kept in a replica Grecian urn in a Greek-style temple on the Great Lawn."

Groundbreaking Earthologist Coralhouse passed away last week at the age of 108. She had been Senior Fellow of the Social Sciences department at the Academy until she stepped down in 250.


One of a few questions I'm thinking about, how are they going to scatter her ashes on Earth?
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Violet
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 		Just to be pedantic (for a change Wink ) isn't it the Med Sea?

but seriously, maybe the Academy are really opposed to it because they know they can't do transport her ashes to Earth, and they don't want to be seen to fail.

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toongoon
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 		Perhaps they are embarrassed because someone has already done it by transporting the cube and they have yet (apparently) to figure out how the transportation was accomplished....

Or perhaps they already know how to do it and no one wants to admit to the fact....<cue X-files conspiracy music> Cool

BTW Do we know how big the cube is supposed to be?

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Presuming that the academy aren't hiding the fact that they can transport matter across to here, and that the cube isn't some special case of matter transport, I guess they must be pretty eager to get the people behind this so that they can pinch their technology. That being said, I'm guessing that the latter of the two statements I ruled out is true. Guess we won't know until they finally tell us what the cube actually is.

It would be interesting to see whether they'd like to collaborate with earth scientists to solve this problem or whether they think that we're not advanced enough to be able to try.

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Ash87
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 		Doesn't want much does she? With her 'Grecian urn' and her 'Greek style temple'. Who does she think she is? Wink

Anyway, it all sounds very 'parallel universy' to me. I also agree that the Acadamy is being very suspicious about it all. Sounds a bit obvious, but the people in the Acadamy had the best access to the cube and they would be in the best position to do something with it. An inside job?

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violet wrote:
Just to be pedantic (for a change Wink ) isn't it the Med Sea?


Way too late to comment, but I will anyway. I had the EXACT same reaction! I was thinking, "well it sucks to be Perplex City, cuz you are NOT going to be able to fulfill THAT request. Twisted Evil
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Taliesin
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 		mmm...

Doesn't want much does she? With her 'Grecian urn' and her 'Greek style temple'. Who does she think she is?

lol Laughing

Seriously though,
Why are they scattering her ashes in the mediterranean Ocean when she wants to be kept in an urn?

Still new here probably a trout.

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Violet
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 		er...not so much a trout as a pair of specs, she wants a temple and an urn until such date as her money can get her ashes to Earth

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