Snippets from Jon Bois' 17776 and 20020, a story you read online about sentient 178th-century space probes who watch football all day.


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Mimi: You know what cracks me up about y’all? It’s how great at conversation you are. Commish had to learn how to be social over the years, but you haven’t been up that long, right?

Nine: Well

There’s the me who’s been conscious for a total of a few weeks or so, but then there’s the me who kind of ambiently absorbed transmissions from Earth for all those thousands of years.

Mimi: Oh, TV shows and whatnot? Talk radio?

Nine: Yeah.

But there’s the third me, too. The one who absorbed things before I fully really existed as me. I was just a bucket of instruments.

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