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# =================================================================== META === #
Document_Type			: QEC-Voice-Transmission-Log
Relay_Station			: RS001
Transceiver+Type/ID/CNAME	: Outpost/dmo.241/Hamilton

# ============================================================= TRANSCRIPT === #
[lot01](tx): Relay Station Operator, Relay Station Operator, this is Dark
	     Matter Observatory Hamilton. Come in. Over.
[lot02](rs): DMO Hamilton, this is RS001 Operator. Go Ahead. Over.
[lot03](tx): Operator, Hamilton is requesting stream block verification. Over.
[lot04](rs): Hamilton, this is Operator. Ten Four. Prepare for sync. Over.
[lot05](tx): Operator, this is Hamilton. Standby. Over.
[lot06](tx): ...
[lot07](tx): Operator, this is Hamilton. Endpoint ready. Over.
[lot08](rs): Hamilton, this is Operator. Checksum looks good, your fingerprint
	     seems to have changed since the last transmission though. Please
	     confirm and initiate retrust. Over.
[lot09](tx): Operator, this is Hamilton. Affirmative. I transferred to Hamilton
	     just yesterday and haven't had time to update my keys yet.
	     Proceeding with handshake now. Over.
[lot10](rs): Hamilton, this is Operator. No worries, I'll let you know when the
	     update is done. Standby. Over.
[lot11](rs): ...
[lot12](rs): Dorothy is that you?
[lot13](tx): Um, er, ... guess so. Who is asking?
[lot14](rs): Dotty, this is Ludwig.
[lot15](tx): Lu? No way. I thought you where ... what are you doing at
	     operations?
[lot16](rs): Well, you know sometimes things get ... complicated.
[lot17](tx): Why do I get the feeling that you should have said dealing with
	     people gets complicated? How is she doing?
[lot18](rs): Better I guess, but ... you know her.
[lot19](tx): So, operations, living the dream ha?
[lot20](rs): It's not that bad. Having time to think about things is actually
	     kind of great right now. Besides, the pay is alright and maybe I
	     can save up, to finally get my own thing going.
[lot21](tx): Take your time, but don't get lost in your thoughts. If you need
	     some distraction, you should take a look at the data I just
	     synced. This really might be something.
[lot22](rs): Hmm, what is it?
[lot23](tx): Remember those helix tests we ran at the collider?
[lot24](rs): How could I've forgotten all those wasted months. We should have
	     stopped trying to proof those pointless theories way before they
	     split up the team.
[lot25](tx): That's the thing. I think our work back then was neither wasted
	     time nor pointless theories. This must sound a little bit weird
	     but listen. We never figured out why the numbers always converged
	     in a similar way, with the same jumbled up results at the end. But
	     what if there wasn't really any way to derive a meaningful result.
[lot26](rs): We always saw a decrease in entropy and never found repeating
	     structures. You especially believed that our setup must have been
	     flawed or we were dealing with a chaotic system. What made you
	     change your mind?
[lot27](tx): I didn't change my mind about the things you just said. Consider
	     this though. What if our assumptions about the medium were all
	     wrong? Maybe our concept of a data layer isn't really supposed to
	     work like we thought. Could it be, that due to the way the system
	     is structured, you'd need another layer to actually work on the
	     data for decoding it?
[lot28](rs): Well, sounds plausible but how would we access this additional
	     layer?
[lot29](tx): I don't think we can, at least not with the technology we've got
	     going at the moment. Right now, we're stuck with our monkey
	     brains.
[lot30](rs): What do you mean?
[lot31](tx): It's like a monkey typing away on a keyboard. Sure some letters
	     will appear on the screen and in very rare cases, also words could
	     form, but the monkey isn't able to derive meaning from it. The
	     words are there, but no chance on decoding it.
[lot32](rs): Fair enough. Point made. It's an interesting thought, I grant you
	     that. But this feels like a dead end to me. You're saying even if
	     your hunch turns out to be correct. We would never be able to use
	     the system due to our lack of tools, so how can we establish a
	     proof?
[lot33](tx): There's no need to do this. I'm not interested in repeating what
	     we did at the collider.
[lot34](rs): I don't get it. What's the point in...
[lot35](tx): Haven't had your coffee yet?
[lot36](rs): Well honestly, I've got some not too shabby hangover from last
	     night going on, so...
[lot37](tx): That bad ha? Listen, spare some of whatever made your head spin
	     and we'll have one together after my rotation at Hamilton. In the
	     meantime get it together and imagine this. What if someone else
	     also made the same observations like we did back then, but wasn't
             that keen on trying to fix something, that needn't to be fixed.
[lot38](rs): Hmm... is there, ... I mean. If you don't care about, ... then
	     there's always the possibility to. No you're kidding right? Come
	     on, are you really making me believe, that someone used it as a
	     binary encoding storage?
[lot39](tx): Monkey won't read, but Monkey either sees stuff on the screen or
	     doesn't.
[lot40](rs): But this is one of the most inefficient ways how to do this. And
	     why go through all that trouble with an ephemeral storage anyway?
[lot41](tx): Someone found a way to make it persistent.
[lot42](rs): What?
[lot43](tx): Look at the timestamp. I marked this last week and when I came to
	     Hamilton, it was still there. Lu, you need to have a look at the
	     stuff I just handed in. When do you think processing will be
	     finished?
[lot44](rs): With the current schedule we've got going on, your block won't be
	     pipelined before next week I'd assume. But I still got my own gear
	     around, since the trip didn't happen. Just send me the dump again.
[lot45](tx): Awesome! On the way.

# =================================================================== DATA === #

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# ============================================================= TRANSCRIPT === #
[lot46](rs): Alright, what am I looking at?
[lot47](tx): To be honest, I don't have a real clue yet. But the entropy
	     signature looks damn close to what we came up with at the
	     collider.
[lot48](rs): It kind of smells like tech they were working with in the old days
	     back on earth. Know what? Let me do some digging. Maybe I can find
	     something in the archives that looks similar to this. It will take
	     some time though, the downlink on RS001 is kind of crowded lately.
[lot49](tx): I'm not going anywhere soon here on Hamilton. Lu, I really
	     appreciate that you're helping me out here. And what I said about
	     the drink, ... I'm really looking forward to it.
[lot50](rs): Me too. See you soon. RS001 Over.
[lot51](tx): Bye. Hamilton Over and Out.