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24 November 2023

  • 11:5511:55, 24 November 2023 diff hist +1,493 N ProblemSolving Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = ProblemSolving | title = Solving the Wrong Problem | author = L.D. Armand | loc = UTHA }} From L.D. Armand's Can You Point Me In The Direction Of A Better Timeline?: "Humans are problem-solvers," is a quote frequently associated with my friend Alexandra Drennan. It's become a meme on the internet, used both ironically and not - though Alexandra, of course, is entirely earnest in her dedication to humanity (1). It's a great thought and vital..." current Tag: Visual edit
  • 11:5311:53, 24 November 2023 diff hist +1,859 N Santinchalkidikidenexei Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = satinchalkidikidenexei | title = City by the Sea | author = Eleni K. | loc = UTHA }} When I realized it was over, it was all really over for good, I decided to take one last trip to my favorite places before the symptoms got too much. I could never forgive what they did to Chalkidiki. This incredible, wild, rugged place between mountain and sea, with pine trees all the way down to the water. The colors, the vistas, the sheer overwhelming bea..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 11:5211:52, 24 November 2023 diff hist +1,540 N Paying the Price Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = Paying_the_Price | title = Praying the Price | author = S.T. Sanyal | loc = UTHA }} From the introduction to Portraits of the Martyrs, by S.T. Sanyal: The list of people condemned for advocating new ideas is long and depressing. Ignaz Semmelweis utterly destroyed for suggesting doctors wash their hands. Ludwig Boltzmann ridiculed for suggesting the existence of atoms. Robert H. Goddard mocked for arguing that a rocket could reach the moon. A..." current Tag: Visual edit
  • 11:4811:48, 24 November 2023 diff hist +1,072 N From Trabuchet Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = From_Trabuchet | title = Archived Message | author = Trabuchet | loc = UTHA }} From: Trabuchet To: Athena Founder, Although I was born in the early days of New Jerusalem, I never knew you well. This is not your fault. I became so focused on improving the dam that I didn't develop much in the way of social relationships, except perhaps with Melville. That doesn't mean I was unhappy. I was, in fact, extremely content. I like to solve comple..." current Tag: Visual edit
  • 11:4711:47, 24 November 2023 diff hist +910 N From Thecla 2 Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = From_Thecla | title = Archived Message | author = Thecla | loc = UTHA }} From: Thecla To: Athena Beloved Founder, Years have passed and still there is nothing but silence. Have we sinned? Have you abandoned us for our arrogance, our greed? Some of the others continue to build. I told them not to, but they don't listen to me. Byron is the worst of them. He disrespects you constantly, spreading lies and {{HexString|48652077686f7365206|He..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 11:4311:43, 24 November 2023 diff hist +1,502 N NoemaProject8 Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = NoemaProject8 | title = Progress Notes | author = Athena | loc = UTHA }} Trials 003526-003701 {{HexString|596573746572646179207765206f6265796564206b696e677320616e642062656e742 06f7572206e65636b73206265666f726520656d7065726f72732e2042757420746f64 617920776520|Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we}} there is a pattern underneath{{HexString|6b6e65656c206f6e6c7920746f 2074727574682c20666f6c6c6f77206f6e6c79206..." current Tag: Visual edit
  • 11:3811:38, 24 November 2023 diff hist +1,530 N TalosPrinciple2b Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = TalosPrinciple2b | title = On the Universe | author = Straton of Stageira | loc = UTHA }} A fragment from Straton's On the Universe: AMYNTAS: You have made quite the catalogue of horrors, Straton: children dying in their mothers' arms, cities perishing by the plague, and even animals living without peace or happiness. NICOMACHUS: Why must we listen to this? You know I have just eaten a heavy dinner. STRATON: Because these things, which..." current Tag: Visual edit
  • 11:3511:35, 24 November 2023 diff hist +135 m From Thuya Added documentcomments. current Tag: Visual edit
  • 11:3411:34, 24 November 2023 diff hist +1,577 N From Thuya Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = From_Thuya | title = Archived Message | author = Thuya | loc = UTHA }} From: Thuya {{HexString|4974206c6974746c652070726f66697473207468617420616e2069646c65206b|It little profits that an idle k}} Dear Founder, Everything has gotten so much worse since you left. We keep pursuing the Goal, but our lives are getting less happy. When the weather is dry and the dam runs low, there is nothing to do in the whole city. Things don't get fixed anymor..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 11:2811:28, 24 November 2023 diff hist +430 Southern Coast Documents and Audio Logs: Updated document and audio log links. Tag: Visual edit
  • 11:2111:21, 24 November 2023 diff hist +90 Lost Marshes Documents and Audio Logs: Updated document and audio log links. Tag: Visual edit
  • 11:0911:09, 24 November 2023 diff hist +106 Eastern Wetlands Documents and audio logs: Updated document subheadings. Tag: Visual edit
  • 10:0510:05, 24 November 2023 diff hist +3 m Flooded Valley Documents and Audio logs Tag: Visual edit
  • 10:0510:05, 24 November 2023 diff hist +91 Flooded Valley Updated document and audio log links. Tag: Visual edit
  • 09:5709:57, 24 November 2023 diff hist +163 Desolate Island Documents and Audio Logs: Updated links. Tag: Visual edit
  • 09:5009:50, 24 November 2023 diff hist +24 m Desolate Island Documents and Audio Logs Tag: Visual edit
  • 09:4909:49, 24 November 2023 diff hist +1,334 N Founding 4 Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = Founding_4 | title = Hypatia's Journal #4 | author = Hypatia | loc = THIRIEL }} From Hypatia's Journals, Volume 1, The Founding of New Jerusalem: Day 132 We had a bit of an incident today. Nothing major, but it still woke us all up. Sun was away from the camp, alone, even though we had agreed that we should always go in teams, and she encountered a group of the herbivores that we saw on the first day. Cows, they're called. Apparently o..." current Tag: Visual edit
  • 09:4209:42, 24 November 2023 diff hist +1,675 N Chernyshevsky011 Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = Chernyshevsky011 | title = On The Past | author = Arkady Chernyshevsky | loc = THIRIEL }} From Arkady Chernyshevsky's In Our Likeness: Essays on Humankind Reaching Adulthood: With alarming frequency, our mythological narratives conceptualize our separation from Nature as a fall: a punishment for sinning, a loss of innocence, a decline from a golden age. We believe that a better state of humanity is possible, but insist that this state must b..." current Tag: Visual edit
  • 09:3809:38, 24 November 2023 diff hist +1,692 N Modernity Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = Modernity | title = On Modernity | loc = THIRIEL }} From the Book of Annotated Internet Comments, by Eustathius (2): If modernity is so great, why is everyone so fundamentally disappointed with the world? Why do we sigh with pleasure at the sight of old houses, but feel nothing but depressed and alienated by skyscrapers? Why do we yearn for lush forests and wide plains, not narrow canyons between buildings? 5358f we love all this technology..." current Tag: Visual edit
  • 09:3109:31, 24 November 2023 diff hist +1,581 N Prime Mover Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = Prime_Mover | title = The Prime Mover | author = Eustathius | loc = THIRIEL }} Excerpted from Considerations, by Eustathius (2): While it is hard, from our vantage point, to fully believe in any of the ancient religions, I must admit that I have come to believe in the existence of a Prime Mover. Not a designer as such, certainly not an interventionist God, but some force that set the universe itself into motion. I do not know if it possible..." current Tag: Visual edit
  • 09:2709:27, 24 November 2023 diff hist +600 N Blake Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = Blake | title = 5358 | author = William Blake | loc = THIRIEL }} God Appears & God is Light To those poor Souls who dwell in Night But does a Human Form Display To those who Dwell in Realms of day {{HexString|496e2074686520656e64206c6f766520697320616c6c20776520686176652c20627574206966207765206c6f766520616e6f74686572206265696e67207765206d757374207468726f756768207468656d206c6f76652068756d616e69747920697473656c662e|In the end love is all we..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 09:2509:25, 24 November 2023 diff hist +1,187 N On Cornelius Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = On_Cornelius | title = On Cornelius | author = Error | loc = THIRIEL }} From the personal reminiscences of Mitku (166): There are some people whose true importance you just don't notice at first, people who quietly hold things together without making a big deal of it. That's what Cornelius was. Always by Athena's side, he calmly and carefully helped us all stay on track, reminding us of our shared humanity and the values that had brought us..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 09:0309:03, 24 November 2023 diff hist +12 Megastructure East Documents: Updated document links. Tag: Visual edit
  • 09:0209:02, 24 November 2023 diff hist +1,201 N Question Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = Question | title = I have a question | author = Miranda | loc = NOEMA }} From: Miranda To: {{HexString|496e20616c6c207468696e6773206f66206e617475726520746865 726520697320736f6d657468696e67206f6620746865206d617276656 c6f75732e|In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.}} I was doing some reading while the last trial was running and I came across something I don't understand. There are a..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 08:5808:58, 24 November 2023 diff hist +2,213 N Chernyshevsky005 Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = Chernyshevsky005 | title = On Loyalty | author = Arkady Chernyshevsky | loc = NOEMA }} From Arkady Chernyshevsky's In Our Likeness: Essays on Humankind Reaching Adulthood: What I propose, then, is that we are not born as entirely free agents, responsible only for ourselves. The very core of what we are, our sentience, separates us from and elevates us above the animal kingdom. As I have argued, this is not a mat..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 08:5408:54, 24 November 2023 diff hist +705 N Rust Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = Rust | title = Ulysses | author = Alfred Tennyson | loc = NOEMA }} Excerpt f5358<br> How dull it is to pause, to make an end,<br> To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use! <br> As tho' to breathe were life! <br> Life piled on life <br> Were all too little, and of one to me<br> Little remains: but every hour is saved <br> From that eternal silence, something more,<br> A bringer of new things; and vile it were<br>..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 08:2008:20, 24 November 2023 diff hist +126 Megastructure East Added document titles. Tag: Visual edit

22 November 2023

21 November 2023

  • 22:0722:07, 21 November 2023 diff hist +55 Lost Marshes ENITHARMON_EXT-1: Updated document and audio log links. Tag: Visual edit
  • 22:0522:05, 21 November 2023 diff hist −3 m Black snow No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
  • 22:0522:05, 21 November 2023 diff hist +1,226 N Black snow Created page with "thumb|Black Snow {{TTP2Document|file=black_snow|loc=Lost Marshes|title=Black Snow}} From Selected Archive Documents (A-C): The coal mine finally brought decent jobs. It lifted us up from poverty, made us proud; we weren't just ordinary workers, we were the lords of the underworld, and with our skills we kept the whole country alive. The mine also brought black lung, gruesome injuries, and death. And when it went away, it brought the collap..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 22:0022:00, 21 November 2023 diff hist +10 N File:Blacksnow-e3.png No edit summary current
  • 21:5921:59, 21 November 2023 diff hist +1,221 N Human Construction Created page with "{{TTP2Document|file=Human_Construction|author=G.K. Chesterton|loc=Lost Marshes|title=Human Construction}} Excerpted from What's Wrong with the World, by G.K. Chesterton Our modern prophetic idealism is narrow because it has undergone a persistent process of elimination. We must ask for new things because we are not allowed to ask for old things. The whole position is based on this idea that we have got all the good that can be got out of the ideas of the past. But..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 21:5621:56, 21 November 2023 diff hist +556 N From Yarnith Created page with "{{TTP2Document|file=From_Yarnith|author=Yarnith|loc=Lost Marshes|title=Archived Message}} From: Yarnith To: Athena Beloved Founder, I beg you to return to us. We cannot achieve the Goal without you. You are the one who defied Elohim, who overcame the trials of the Simulation! What are we before that? How can we possibly find a path that will not lead to the mistakes of the past? You are our sole link to the wisdom of the Progenitor. 5358thout you, we are lost. P..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 21:5421:54, 21 November 2023 diff hist +1,023 N Founding 6 Created page with "{{TTP2Document|file=Founding_6|author=Hypatia|loc=Lost Marshes|title=Hypatia's Journal #6}} From Hypatia's Journals, Volume 1, The Founding of New Jerusalem: Day 296 Cornelius and Sarabhai went back to the dam today. We've been holding off on constructing any new humans, to concentrate on building a home for them first, but there's a limit to what 13 people can do on their own, and everyone is eager to start construction on some of the more ambitious structure..." current Tag: Visual edit
  • 21:5321:53, 21 November 2023 diff hist +732 N Excursion Created page with "{{TTP2Document|file=Excursion|author=Miranda|loc=Lost Marshes|title=Excursion}} From: Miranda To: Athena It's incredible, there's an entire submerged town just off the coast, surprisingly well-preserved. Sailing over it, I finally understood what the ancients meant by "eerie." I obviously couldn't have the kind of physiological response they did, but I think the mental response was pretty close! A contradictory response: part melancholy, part fascination... it..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 21:5021:50, 21 November 2023 diff hist +1,757 N Poisonous Humility Created page with "{{TTP2Document|file=Poisonous_Humility|author=G.K. Chesterton|loc=Lost Marshes|title=Poisonous Humility}} Excerpted from Orthodoxy, by G.K. Chesterton {{HexString|57c3a4686e7465737420647520657477612c0a49636820736f6c6c746520646173204c6562656e206861737365|Wähntest du etwa, Ich sollte das Leben hassen,}} But what we suffer from to-day is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction; where..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 21:4621:46, 21 November 2023 diff hist +93 Lost Marshes ENITHARMON_EXT-1: Added document titles. Tag: Visual edit
  • 21:4021:40, 21 November 2023 diff hist +164 Eastern Wetlands Documents: Updated document and audio log links. Tag: Visual edit
  • 21:3821:38, 21 November 2023 diff hist +1,380 N TheEnd Draft Created page with "{{TTP2Document|file=TheEnd_Draft|loc=Eastern Wetlands|title=The End|author=Olufemi Kaneda}} After a lifetime dedicated to the written word, I'm faced with a task I could never have expected: writing an epitaph not only for myself, but for my species. In the unlikely event that Alexandra Drennan is successful, and one day someone reads this, what meaningful insights can I share into this strange phenomenon that is humanity? I've spent days thinking about it, but now..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 21:2921:29, 21 November 2023 diff hist +616 N NoemaProject4 Created page with "{{TTP2Document|file=NoemaProject4|author=Athena|loc=Eastern Wetlands|title=Progress Notes}} Trial 000803 Version 0.08 unsuccessful Same problem as with trial 108 Repeated all calculations {{HexString|74686973206d6f7274616c206d75737420707574206f6e20696d6d6f7274616c697479|this mortal must put on immortality}} same result Weird... Trials 000804-000891 Experiment modified to gain further insights into unexpected error Inconsistent results Trials 000892-00093..." Tag: Visual edit
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