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<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title> Rerturn Null </title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="html_resources/style.css"></head><body><a href="index.html"><button class="back"><</button></a>
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<p class="comment">Outline:</p>
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<ul>
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<li class="comment">
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Jack puts the HDD back together after visually inspecting the platter
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– there is no saving it
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</li>
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<li class="comment">
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Jack establishes a connection to AgriWorks
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</li>
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<li class="comment">
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They talk about a few topics:
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<ul>
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<li class="comment">
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Annie's attempt to get the manual and what followed
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</li>
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<li class="comment">
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Jack's background, past life, why he is there
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</li>
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<li class="comment">
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life in the dome
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</li>
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<li class="comment">
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the outside world (what happened, assumptions about what is)
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<ul>
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<li class="comment">
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what happened: They came up with an alternative to asbestos.
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Turns out that a precursor to the new material is even more
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dangerous. A massive industrial accident happens.
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At least, the material breaks down over time.
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</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li class="comment">
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Annie needs to go to meet the library guy
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</li>
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</ul>
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<p>
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Pulling the secondary drive out of the rack takes an unusual amount of
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force. The crunchy bearings scratch on the rails as they get dragged
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forward. After struggling for a bit, Jack finally reaches the point
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where the top cover and the empty compartment for a removable platter
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are fully exposed. He undoes the thumb screws holding the assembly in
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place, then he slides it forward and lifts it out, revealing the
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circuit boards, motor, and the spindle with fixed platters beneath.
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A fine silver line along the edge in the otherwise brown coating of the
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upper-most platter shows where one of the heads had crashed –
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a deep scratch but, with a bit of luck, this might still be recoverable.
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He undoes two more thumb screws on the inside and the face plate of the
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drive comes off. Using a crank-driven flashlight <span class="comment">
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Is that the right way to describe this?</span> that he had found in one
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of the desk cabinets, he inspects the three platters: The one on top
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turns out to be the outlier, both of the other platters have thick
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silver-y white stripes lining their edges.
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<span class="quote speech">Well, there goes that pipe dream.</span>
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</p>
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<p>
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Jack puts the drive back together. Hopefully, he will get the manual for
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the door from Annie, otherwise he'll have to dig his way out of the
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bunker somehow. <span class="quote speech">But enough of that for
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now</span>, Jack thinks and puts the thought aside for a while. Now, he
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needs a way to entertain himself until the evening.
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</p>
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<p class="comment">
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This has been moved here from chapter 1 "Wake Up". It should
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be integrated into this chapter instead.
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</p>
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<p>
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He walks over to the the teleprinter and opens the lid to find that
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something has eaten most of the paper. He removes the remains and opens
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one of the cabinets under the desks. By some miracle, whatever ate the
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paper didn't find the rest. He tears off a piece of the stack and
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puts it into the printer, feeding the end into the tractor mechanism.
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Then, he sits down at the terminal and logs on.
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<span class="comment">This should be rephrased to indicate that there
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is some purpose to him opening the lid in the first place, like him
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wanting to change the ribbon bc it's no doubt deteriorated or something
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like that.</span>
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</p>
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<pre class="terminal">
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$ ls
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$ pwd
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/home/jack
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$ cd /var/log
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$ ls
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cron outpost dmesg.log wtmp
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$ cd outpost
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$ ls
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comms comms_diag event logbook
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$ cat logbook > /dev/ttyS1
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$ █
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</pre>
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<p>
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The printer comes to life and starts printing. Jack gets up and walks
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over to it. The printer prints. And it prints some more. The paper
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reaches the floor. Jack picks up the end and holds it, folding the pages
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along the perforated lines as they reach his hands. Finally, the printer
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stops to print. Jack turns the wheel on the side of the printer, manually
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advancing the feed mechanism, until he reaches the end of the page. Then,
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he tears it off and takes the small stack of paper back to the terminal
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desk. Trying his luck with the lamp again, he flips the switch multiple
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times until it stays on.
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</p>
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<pre class="paper">
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2000-01-01 Automated Announcement:
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Happy New Year 2000!
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//TODO: ASCII art of above line with fireworks
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The outpost diagnostics suite reports no critical problems at any of
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our outposts. The Lunar Biosphere has, so far, not needed assistance
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from any of the outposts.
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Good work, everyone!
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The Future Is Bright.
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2002-08-15 Lunar Biosphere:
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Crew wakeup command
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Message:
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//TODO
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//TODO: more log messages left by people
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</pre>
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