Anyone wanna watch movies?

[Yes, Alex spells out casual speech.]

If anyone comes across a cylindrical, self-contained piece of machinery approximately 30 centimeters long, capable of generating a collimated plasma beam approximately 100 centimeters in length, I'll buy it from you. I've attached a reference image, though exact appearance and beam color aren't important.

[Attached is an image many will find ( Read more... )

Are there any AIs out there who aren't megalomaniacal psychopaths who need to have their power supplies yanked? Sound off; I get the feeling we're gonna want to be working together for the next few days.

The rest of you, will you please please please try to call for help as soon as you even begin to suspect you might need it? The time to deal with ( Read more... )

[Alex's androgynous voice is authoritative, and, except for the swearing, all business.]

Right. So. The recent teleporter malfunction. I pulled the logs, and there were a bunch, I mean a bunch of shorts in one of the teleporter booths early in the morning on the 15th. Looks to me like the entire network is quantum-entangled, which makes sense, so ( Read more... )

[Alex, being used to spying on strange cultures before making contact, has analyzed all the unencrypted network traffic and all the encrypted traffic a sophisticated computer with an interest in cryptanalysis can decode. Conclusions as follows:

1. Cui Bono crew: absent.
   
2. People of Earth agents: undetermined.
   
3. Grey agents: absent.
   
4. Bear agents: ( Read more... )