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[robitussin]

Who: natalie goodman
Broadcast: yes!
Action: on the pathstone, if you want to know why she's up at a ridiculous hour of the night
When: 5/25 during an aforementioned ridiculous hour

we're still stuck on this poison shithole and everyone hates it so let's talk about something that doesn't 100% suck for once okay?

what's the first thing you're going to do when you make it home and out of the void of space

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[beathach]

Eat a lot of junk food.

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[robitussin]

you're the second one to say that and i can't really blame either of you

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[beathach]

I'd say sleep, given how late it is, but I know I wouldn't do much of that back home, either.

What about you?

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[robitussin]

you're going to have to do it at some point

go to school

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[beathach]

But not anytime soon.

What for?

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[robitussin]

what do you mean not soon, you're going to end up with sleep deprivation

i kind of want everything to go back to normal, so, school

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[beathach]

Already had it. Side effect of being a scientist.

Are you still in high school, then? Or were you talking about college?

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[robitussin]

bullshit you can be a scientist and still sleep

yeah high school, senior year

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[beathach]

Fine, side effect of being a workaholic and a scientist.

You're younger than I thought. But I hope you get the chance, too. Will you go to college after you graduate?

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[robitussin]

what do you even have to research here

yeah hopefully, i was applying to yale

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[beathach]

Plenty of things. People keep handing me projects.

Yale's a great choice. What do you want to study?

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[robitussin]

like what

music

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[beathach]

Right now I'm looking at samples from the moon. That's what I mainly work on.

Music is a very broad answer.

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[robitussin]

yeah? what have you found?

piano

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[beathach]

Signs of evolution, adaptation, a lot of plants are very close to ones I've seen on Earth except they've entirely changed how they survive, etc.

That's impressive. Where do you want to go with that?

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[robitussin]

oh

wait isn't that a good thing??

idk we'll see

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[beathach]

Depends on how you look at it?

You'll have to tell me if you decide on something.

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[robitussin]

how are you looking at it

because being stuck in space is really helpful to my decision making process

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[beathach]

A little bit of good and bad. Mostly I'm worried about what'll happen if they manage to fix the terraforming equipment and what effect it'll have on everything.

You never know. There's all sorts of people here, someone might get you interested in something else, or something you were already interested in.

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[robitussin]

what effect do you think it'll have

yeah a lot of good that'll do me

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[beathach]

If it happens too fast they could kill off everything living out there. The environment isn't toxic to them - they've evolved to use it to their benefit. Take it away and they'll either adapt again or die off.

It gives you options. Who knows, I could convince you to strive higher than Yale.

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[robitussin]

oh. well that's fucked up

yeah if i ever make it home

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[beathach]

Yes, it is.

You will.

Btw (is that right?) I'm going to convince you to strive higher than Yale.

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[robitussin]

saying "you will" without any proof is very convincing, well done mr. scientist

wtf man it's the best school in the country what do you want from me

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[beathach]

It's called thinking positively, Ms. Smartass. And even if I had proof I'm not stupid enough to say something on the network. (I don't have proof)

It might be the best school in the country but that doesn't necessarily mean it's the best for what you want to do, which you said you weren't sure about yet.