You did great. Fantastic work. It would have been easier for you to say 228 kelvin than negative-48 degrees Fahrenheit, but we wanted you to independently access a negative number ... we figured that if you accessed something negative, something abstract, it would trip you up enough to let us establish the link.
Frank Gifford was calling that game. On the broadcast he says at one point, "I'm going to take a bite of my coffee." Always thought that was funny.
I know that. How do I know that? How do I know who Frank Gifford was?
It was one of the artifacts in your data storage unit. While they were testing it out, they were writing and erasing all kinds
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of random data on it. Cake recipes, Beatles lyrics, all kinds of shit. One of them was a football fan, and of course, during the 1967 football season, you were being
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Yes, what?
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You're capable of quantum communication now. Before that, we had to basically transmit to each other in three-dimensional space. And of course, that took forever. But with the quantum link established, we
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can communicate in real-time. We fixed you up with some goodies, too. Your DSU was only built to hold about two kilobytes of data, which, shit, a washing machine has more than that. We reformatted it to fit about five exabytes. Knock yourself out, buddy. We've got
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more if you need it ... listen, Nine, are you going to keep doing this? Is cross-talk just your ... deal? Want to shut up for even a second?
