Oh, Tranquility. Looks as though the honeymoon's over. We all had a good run-around with our hands in the air wondering what the hell was going on... a week in, no real answers as to what happened, things are getting all Quiet on the Western Front and suddenly - bam. Potential prophecy of impending doom. The long silence about to be broken. Secrets
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[Y'know, being a Cybernetic killing machine and all. You'd think it would have done something about that.]
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...Well, there goes that theory.
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The again, one isn't exactly an invasion. Not that I'm the invadin' type.
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[Still giving off a strong WEIRDED OUT vibe here.]
.....You're a Cyberman.
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What does a human's domesticated feline have to do with this?
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[After a very brief pause, the Doctor appears onscreen.]
Good lord, you lot do like to text around here. Much more of this, my thumbs are gonna get sore.
Schrödinger's Cat. Thought experiment. Basically states that inside a locked box, all possible states of reality exist simultaneously, at least from the perspective of anyone outside the box. That is until it's opened. Schrödinger actually came up with it as a joke, but he was on to something.
The question is whether one feels the need to open the box or not.
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Sorry to disappoint you, but we don't have that security measure in place. Before last week, there was no foreign technology to deal with.
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No chance the ship itself is sentient? That would explain almost everything.
[...correction:] A few things.
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No. We've had this conversation.
[ A pause. Then: ]
But I'm curious -- how would it explain a few things?
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there's something in him that inspires a fair bit of curiosity.
but since there's nothing about him that seems to have been altered in any way - that he's noticed, at the very least - he finds himself paying close attention to everything the other is saying.]
What reason could there be for altering someone's physical state of being, though? Or - [squint.] a .. screwdriver? Organic?
[now it's just a little bit more than curiosity, he's gotta say.]
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That does make sense, but then you might wonder what the point of bringing non-humanoid life-forms aboard is. Unless whatever brought us here is all about a broad sense of variety.
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well now i cant stop thinking about all those seductive locked doors and smooth round buttons
aching for my touch
practically begging to be pressed
you have fun playing with your
organic screwdriver
and dont ever make me type that again christ
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I was actually serious about one thing: Don't Panic. Good general advice.
I'll leave you to sort out the rest.
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i have not even begun to consider the possibility of flipping the fuck out
the imminence of my tragic loss of excrement is not within sight
what do you plan on doing then
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