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[notaheroascientist]

[the screen turns on to reveal Carlos in his ever-present lab coat, pushing his glasses up his nose as he nervously grins at the screen]

I believe this is the point where introductions are in order, so...my name is Carlos and I am a scientist. I am not of this world, but from what I have been told neither are any of you. I'll need to run some surveys on that later - scientifically speaking, other worlds are very exciting. I mean, I'm here in a world where an entire city can be built on the back of a giant turtle the size of - well I don't know what size yet, I'll need to run some tests, or maybe just find an accurate map - but it's got to be at least the size of Rhode Island! There are just so many rules of physics that this thing must be breaking! Like, how does a turtle that large even float? And that's just in this world, I can't even begin to hypothesise about what else might be...

[Carlos coughs, suddenly remembering that this is actually the time for introductions, and figuring out what on earth (or in this case, what on turtle) he is meant to be doing next, and not time for Science]

Um. Yes. But I can figure that all out later, I'll need time to organise a proper survey questionnaire anyway. In the meantime - this is me, hello [Carlos waves quickly], and I would really appreciate it if someone could tell me where to get food, groceries, that sort of thing. Also is all of this [Carlos waves around him to indicate the place he's been set up in] something paid for, or am I going to need to pay this all back? I meant to ask, but I kind of got distracted with all of my questions about the turtle.

Also I...I realise this is a long shot, but the last otherworldly universe I got stuck in had this fantastic wifi, and I didn't have to worry about my phone's battery dying either. Which meant being stuck in a desert that was not of this world wasn't so bad, because I could still ring home. That...that's not going to be possible here, is it? I mean, obviously if time is not passing in my world then there is no time in which anyone will be able to answer the phone, but I...I just thought I'd check. Just in case.

Comments

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[superoverachiever]

The power thing is kinda taken care of, but as far as connecting to outside places? Not as much.

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[notaheroascientist]

Yes, a few people have mentioned that. Although there must be some kind of connection, I mean, how exactly were we even brought here in the first place?

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[superoverachiever]

Well, I guess there's some kind. But it's like a whirlpool, you know? It's easy to get pulled to the center, but hard to get out.

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[notaheroascientist]

Maybe; it's impossible to tell without knowing more about the forces involved, I'll have to see if they'll let me take a look at what they're using to do it...

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[superoverachiever]

Well I mean, they'd have to let you and they'd also have to know what they were using too.

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[notaheroascientist]

Will they? It'd make my research a lot easier if they would.

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[superoverachiever]

I mean, those are both pretty big ifs.

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[notaheroascientist]

Lots of things in life are an 'if'. And if we never asked 'if' in the first place, we wouldn't have science.

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[superoverachiever]

I thought that was 'why.'

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[notaheroascientist]

Why too, yes.

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[superoverachiever]

I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm all for getting explanations. I'm just not optimistic about it after more than a year here.

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[notaheroascientist]

But that's no reason not to keep looking! It took us thousands and thousands of years to finally understand the stars. And even know, there's still so much about them that we don't know.