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[terminalskeptik]

Am i missing something here? Why is it even relevant what language they speak or how they know english? We need to be focusing on circumstances surrounding the theft. Who was suspected (besides Recon eight), did Scarlett know Fran?...questions like these.

[Demontague]

[dead weight]

[Foz]

[Scott]

[RobPal]

[dead weight]

Thanks RobPal, for explaining this in that manner. I'd seen them as from a distant planet in our universe. Has this been addressed somewhere, I mean from them? Is it explained how they get back and forth and such? I'm just curious why most people came to that conclusion over the other. No biggie, just trying to follow along.

[Demontague]

[RobPal]

[dead weight]

Thanks again! I've read much of them, but I guess I'm going to be one of the resident cynics/devil's advocates. We're basing all our assumptions on things they're telling us. If the two people controlling all our information (who just happen to be more than distantly related) are feeding us the wrong things, or are slanting it in a certain way, we won't know until/unless we find others from PPC that say differently.

It's the old "Would you lie to me?" question. Both the honest man and the liar will tell you no, so it's a pointless question. I've seen nothing concrete yet, but the overall attitude, especially the silly blog, which although adds some spice isn't realistic IMHO if such a priceless artifact is missing, unless it's a diversion, doesn't fit. Of course when another faction comes forward and says "Hey, those two are bad news!" I'll be just as cautious of them until we have solid evidence either way.

Not looking for heated debates, although I welcome disagreement. I'm just saying people are taking everything at face value from a censored and bottle-necked information source. If someone here did that to us we'd assume they have something to hide. Since they're from another dimension/planet we don't? Just a thought.

[Wainamoinen]

I find the idea fascinating how they went with drawings instead of photographs. I used to hate it how my high school art teacher would come to see my drawings and say: "If I wanted a real looking picture I'd have used a camera", she was an Abstract artist and I was a Realist.

-Wainamoinen

[Marrec]

I don't know about anybody else, but I'm loving the culture game we're playing with Sente's daughter. True, she has much more information on our culture then we do on hers (seeing as she has access, seemingly, to our entire internet, while we are only fed the morsals picked by Sente). Also, I think the year that the cube has been stolen will explain why Scarlett isn't so desperate to find the cube. I'd get bored after a year as well.

[Tiny]

Longish...
So I would just like to declare with this article that it is officially true they are much more advanced, technology wise. We've had photos how long? I mean real modern, 32 bit color photos, stored digitally, for what, maybe 5 years? I mean ten years at the very very very very veeeerrryyyy earliest.
Yes, we've had actual photographic appliances themselves for closer to 100 years, but photographic technology is just now starting to peak and flatten out. Usually a technology that is useful is not discarded until something more advanced comes along and propagates itself. This article suggests that it has been sooo long since they were in rapid production that most young adults don't even have a clue why they are such a big deal to us and have to go look around in "Old Books".
Jeesh, Our society is about a decade away from photo Id's being replaced completely with Dna or some other type of identification system. There are already a few different types of ID's floating around but for one of them to be accepted world wide, that is going to take some serious amounts of time.
The fact that they are so advanced suggests that maybe this pregame newspaper and blog is needed to accustom ourselves to their world. As in, what can and can't be done in their world, because so far it seems to be radically different from what we are dealing with in present times. This could all be just to warm us up for the temporal shock that may come from being completely dropped off in the middle of a hunt for this thing.
*Rampant Spec* Hell, with the use of this key so dependently in the novel, and the game being ran by Firebox, a Hi tech gadget and gizmo catalogue, could this possibly be funded some where higher up in the food chain, by some one maybe wanting to hype up and release something under wraps somewhat like the key, or maybe like what this cube will become? Very random thought so don't put much stock in it all, I jsut had to post it along witht he rest of this...
Tj-

[leakingpen]

tiny, no, i think it would be safe to say that the drawing thing is about 25 years.

scarlett seems a very stereotypical teen. old to her means, anything before i remember.

[sparkanum]

Another puzzle....