Preconceived Space
Dec12
I think somebody’s inner mad scientist has been awoken.
↓ Transcript
Jaz
I’m going to come out and say that you seem to me rather paranoid about mystery nanos, but I don’t know enough to say its unjustified. I have heard Ace express similar concerns about such machines, but he felt that the necessary technologies was a long way off.
Carver
Runaway nanos are our Boogieman. We have snippets of Dilmun records telling how they had to abandon and destroy their homeworld, which we think is your Venus, along with the vast majority of their population. They were so traumatized that they never forgot, and never allowed self-replicating machines, of any scale, ever since. And they passed that caution on to us.
Jaz
To tell you the truth, I don’t think there’s any reason to worry. I’m going to be an old woman before he has his funeral.
Carver
What makes you so certain of that?
Jaz
I… I have dreams that come true sometimes. Years ago, I foresaw Ace’s meeting with Stormy. And Luna with a green twin. And, recently, an older Ace with grey hair in a glass coffin.
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Carver
You’re a precog?!
Let me scan your brain!
We need to do sleep studies!
Can I take a brain tissue sample? A small one. You probably won’t miss it!
I’m going to come out and say that you seem to me rather paranoid about mystery nanos, but I don’t know enough to say its unjustified. I have heard Ace express similar concerns about such machines, but he felt that the necessary technologies was a long way off.
Carver
Runaway nanos are our Boogieman. We have snippets of Dilmun records telling how they had to abandon and destroy their homeworld, which we think is your Venus, along with the vast majority of their population. They were so traumatized that they never forgot, and never allowed self-replicating machines, of any scale, ever since. And they passed that caution on to us.
Jaz
To tell you the truth, I don’t think there’s any reason to worry. I’m going to be an old woman before he has his funeral.
Carver
What makes you so certain of that?
Jaz
I… I have dreams that come true sometimes. Years ago, I foresaw Ace’s meeting with Stormy. And Luna with a green twin. And, recently, an older Ace with grey hair in a glass coffin.
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Carver
You’re a precog?!
Let me scan your brain!
We need to do sleep studies!
Can I take a brain tissue sample? A small one. You probably won’t miss it!
What is a sleeping brain’s favorite musical group?
REM
“Oh, I KNEW something like this was going to happen!”
Sheesh! At least buy the girl a drink before you ask for a piece of her gray matter.
“Probably”. ^_^
Snort! “You probably won’t miss it!”
Is it a glass coffin or a diamond?
Just thought of something: could the ‘glass coffin’ be a Cryo-Chamber? The things the males get shoved into during flight to prevent their ‘naughty bits’ from falling off? o_O
Also, an ‘older Ace’ may not be Just Ace, remember Deuce? He was going to spend a hundred years r so with Mama Wata
Which means when Deus is grey(say 50), since she’s 11 years older she’d be over 160. Unless he gets out early that’s not what happens.
Trey has grey hair already.
Quaid (the Orion’s Guide) died staying awake to pilot the ships that helped them escape the Dilmun, and is their greatest hero. They might well have put him in a glass coffin so that Orions paying their respects could see him.