Intergalactic Summit

I'll be honest. When a pedant is badgering people for entertainment, it's probably best to ignore her.

This isn't to say Arrendis's concerns are unreasonable; they are reasonable enough, in abstract. It's just that she's intractible because the argument is her objective, not the resolution of it.

Anyway, whatever else transpires in this thread, we'll see what comes of the Inquest in coming days.

I didn't say I was doing it for entertainment. I said it was fun. You should always try to love what you do. If you don't love it, don't do it.



Nor is this in any way, shape, or form, true. You only think it is because you have never once actually sought resolution of an argument with me, only capitulation. I'm more than happy to come to consensus; ask Samira, Miz, or even Aldrith. We've certainly had issues that we resolved in the past. I am only truly intractable when compromise is unconscionable.

For example: I personally would prefer at least ten to thirty years of controlled testing for something this important, which will see this immediate and widespread a level of demand across the entire cluster. Elmund's suggested a shorter testing period that's still at least 90 times longer than what was used before this stuff got pumped out in massive amounts to ship off to the Quarantine zones. I'm willing to work with that. It's not optimal, but it's better than what you've wrought.

Point, maybe.



No-- it also lets you ask tables whether they're exhibiting symptoms. It's definitely able to pick up high levels of contamination in the environment. Question is whether it's able to pick up medium or low levels.

I don't get the sense there's a minimum concentration greater than "a speck" needed to cause the disease (at least in "basic" form), so, the scanner's usefulness is maybe a little limited until it can pick up just one-- unless, that is, the goal is to distinguish a Koyonoke outbreak from other stuff early on so you can snap a quarantine into place. That, it might be pretty useful for.

Can confirm, she can come to a consensus with only slight behavioral adjustment through electric shock therapy. At this point I don't think it'll be necessary, as I largely find myself in agreement with her.

Don't care much for a response, I'm afraid - and I think you know well where the insult was targeted.

Besides, as one Ms. Lagann put it - ARC is not solely a State organization.

There are always those quick to leap at any chance to be offended, Pieter.

And many more who live to offend.

My intent was not to berate you, as I appreciate much of the work you have done. I also didn’t intend to imply that your allegations were unsupportable. Only that, and by your own addition, they are allegations.

However, we didn't use to be able to *any* concentration of Kyonoke prions. As in, at all. The only way to know whether anyone is infected is when someone starts to exhibit the shivers and rapidly deteriorate.

At least give them credit for actually managing to detect the prion before someone starts having seizures and show black spots all over themselves. It's a first step at least.

So, here's a thing:

Someone just showed me a data file-- it looks like there might be quarantine relief inbound, at least for us capsuleers. Specialized medical pods?

If I understood the design and proposed use right, we'd basically be sealed in full life-support mode for at least a week or so-- drip-fed nutrients, full catheterization, the whole bit. They'll put us in, then give the hull a light toasting with plasma on the way out to get rid of any contamination.

The thing's fitted with more than the usual set of medical scanners. Basically, they'd keep us in there in sensory deprivation under really intense monitoring, senses shunted off; we'd be able to use our ships, but, probably, getting podded would be discouraged, I'd guess.

And, they're equipped with the scanners designed to pick up specks.

I guess they figure if we can stand having scanners and a bunch of medical expert systems, presumably backed up by actual medical experts, all over us for days on end without developing a detectable knot of specks in the brain stem or excreting anything that raises an alarm, we're probably okay.

Not sure how that interacts with concerns about the cure, but, I guess if it's nanite-based they can probably filter it out or switch it off when they're sure we're clean.

... Interesting.