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[UPDATE] Path of Least Time - Sept 16th
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PuzzledPineapple
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 		[UPDATE] Path of Least Time - Sept 16th
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Friday, September 16 2005, 02:19 PM

I know I shouldn't be mentioning this, but it's unusual enough to warrant bending the rules a little. People in the Cube Research Team regularly get a report from one of the Cube research labs (like Boardman's) on the status of the data link between Earth and Perplex City. It doesn't make very interesting reading, because it hardly ever changes - it's been stable for a long time now.

The latest report was different. Oh, on the surface of it, there was no real change - the bandwidth, throughput, all of that was within normal parameters. However, a little-noticed set of numbers caught my eye. It appears that over the last few weeks, parameters associated with the entropy of the data stream have increased. In other words, the complexity of the stream is increasing.

In even simpler words, there seems to be a higher amount of chatter going on between Earth and Perplex City, and it can't be accounted for by normal Academy traffic. I know what you're going to ask me - can you work out what it is? The answer is no. It would be impossible for me to work out the 'extra stuff' that is being said just from the raw stream, for a whole bunch of different reasons. That's not something worth worrying about. What you should be concerned about is the fact that someone in Perplex City is doing a lot of talking to people in Earth, and none of those people have anything to do with the Academy.

I could be wrong - it's been known to happen before. Maybe this is just a natural phenomenon of the data link, which is a very strange thing anyway. But if I'm right, then it seems like something is happening on Earth...


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 		ahem.. umm... someone tell him he's imagining it. nothing to see here. go back to the CRT. these are not the droids you are looking for....

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 		Um, yeah... or tell him we've been in private (and secret) communication with Sente and he's not supposed to mention it to anyone Razz
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MrDoug
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 		a lot?
Has anyone from there really been doing A LOT of communication with earth? Are they on IRC somewhere? Is there something that we are missing? I do not think that the communications that we have received would amount to much.

I wonder if we can get an assessment of the amount of increase in traffic, and if we need to reduce the amount of communication we have so as to not blow our source.

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 		as long as they are chatting with people IN earth and not ON earth we should be ok Smile
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 		Just an idle thought, but what if someone emailed Kurt and asked him to send a piece of the "raw stream"?

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Sasuntsi Davit
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 		If the increase is traffic is not from the crazy brotherhood thingamajigs here on earth communicating with their crazy counterparts in the Perplex City, then its probably us.

Think about it, the heat sensor app and logs, the leaking of business data and us communicating with the late Monica Grand and Sylvia Salk. However, our usage wouldn't amount to much unless the stream they had initially was like dialup speed, and now they are like wtf? we have 2Meg broadband people...
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 		It could also, obviously, be someone in Perplex City communicating to someone on Earth in preparation for September 19th. Maybe there is a mole at Mind Candy! Smile
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Mokey Fraggle
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 		Why doesn't one of us contact Kurt to get some more information about this? Could we mention that we've emailed a couple of people... Violet... him... *coughSenteMonicaSylviacough* Laughing , and see if he thinks that might account for the abnormality? Then at least we'd know whether it's just us about to blow our covers, or it's some of the baddies up to no good. Cool

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 		Yeah... I'll E-Mail him and ask him...
EDIT: Okay, not right now... E-Mail problems. LOL!
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