What? Ford, look - this ship is a hotbed on a good day, I think. And who knows, if you hadn't come out with it and there hadn't been ripples, the Admiral might not have answered me at all.
This is a good thing. It's good if we aren't causing awful things while we go around trying to do decent things. But these avenues should still be followed up on, and the truth as to whether we're destroying worlds or not should be double-checked.
It is good, that at least we have his word that none of us have caused the end of the world. That's important, if it can be trusted.
But you don't understand. It wasn't just my interpretation of the data that was wrong. Two inmates have vanished. Inmates with watches. And I didn't get any readings at all from either of them.
There's no data, for inmates.
This whole project was useless from the start. All I've done is send people into a panic over information that was always being controlled -- information I got wrong!
[Is this a set-up? he wonders. Is the Admiral only answering questions to harm his credibility? Or...is it that he, Ford, is just a damned fool whose research causes panic and disaster and is never, ever right?
....he's a fool.]
I have to tell them. Put a stop to this. It's already gone far enough.
[She's concerned and it shows in her tone. Hange doesn't consider them close friends - her metric for friendships is weird and they haven't known each other long - but a colleague and comrade, yes.]
Me too. The money I've blown on projects that never panned out...
[She gets distracted thinking of it for a second. :/ She can never be grateful enough to Erwin for believing in the important of what she wanted to do even when he didn't understand it, even when it failed.]
Look - it was a noble undertaking. I really mean that. It's heroic to want to help the people who disappear here. I wouldn't even know where to begin the project. You took a big goal and chased it down and you failed. There's no shame in that. You went at it with your all even when the odds seemed insurmountable and you shouldn't regret doing that.
Oh, Stanford. The library's fine! And your impulse to share this was good. People should be as fully informed as possible so they can make the best decisions they can.
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Date: 2020-03-03 10:14 pm (UTC)What? Ford, look - this ship is a hotbed on a good day, I think. And who knows, if you hadn't come out with it and there hadn't been ripples, the Admiral might not have answered me at all.
This is a good thing. It's good if we aren't causing awful things while we go around trying to do decent things. But these avenues should still be followed up on, and the truth as to whether we're destroying worlds or not should be double-checked.
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Date: 2020-03-04 02:54 pm (UTC)But you don't understand. It wasn't just my interpretation of the data that was wrong. Two inmates have vanished. Inmates with watches. And I didn't get any readings at all from either of them.
There's no data, for inmates.
This whole project was useless from the start. All I've done is send people into a panic over information that was always being controlled -- information I got wrong!
[Is this a set-up? he wonders. Is the Admiral only answering questions to harm his credibility? Or...is it that he, Ford, is just a damned fool whose research causes panic and disaster and is never, ever right?
....he's a fool.]
I have to tell them. Put a stop to this. It's already gone far enough.
At least no one's been killed this time.
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Date: 2020-03-04 11:05 pm (UTC)[She's concerned and it shows in her tone. Hange doesn't consider them close friends - her metric for friendships is weird and they haven't known each other long - but a colleague and comrade, yes.]
Have you not failed much at stuff in the past?
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Date: 2020-03-05 01:22 am (UTC)No, I've failed pretty consistently, actually.
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Date: 2020-03-05 01:25 am (UTC)[She gets distracted thinking of it for a second. :/ She can never be grateful enough to Erwin for believing in the important of what she wanted to do even when he didn't understand it, even when it failed.]
Look - it was a noble undertaking. I really mean that. It's heroic to want to help the people who disappear here. I wouldn't even know where to begin the project. You took a big goal and chased it down and you failed. There's no shame in that. You went at it with your all even when the odds seemed insurmountable and you shouldn't regret doing that.
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Date: 2020-03-07 02:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-03-07 03:03 am (UTC)