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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2051 07:50:13 +0000 (UTC)

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Subject: [QEC] Ship introduction, and our weird QEC system

Hi All,

I am so excited to have the honor of getting to send our ship’s first

ever transmission ! (I’m Jill by the way). I can’t even properlly

describe my excitement; excuse me while I scream for a moment:

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALkjgo

saodfkjdsapfkjpowqdijgpoeqbfnpoeqfunbofeqbjnpoeqnubpoequbioienboiwubepni

sa;lbkjbr3;ojLAkdjg;lkjj;laJDVL:JALJALJBOIJQOKBDS:LBSKJ:LKAJ!!!!!!!!!

There we go.

Okay, so let me explain why this is such a big deal: we were one of the

first ships launched with a QEC (9000’s just a magic number), so early,

in fact, that our QEC software (sendqec (literally a port of sendmail))

is based on one of the draft QEC specs. I’ll see if I can find a copy of

it to send y’all, but basically, it’s from when the IETF’s Quantum

Entanglement Communicator (QEC) WG was still playing around with the

idea of trying to use email for yet another purpose. (needless to say

this was obviously a bad idea, which should be evident given the lack of

similar QEC systems.)

I don’t mind tranmissions being /formatted/ like emails, but I do mind

not being able to communicate for who knows how long (this was because

of some weird date mismatch issues. I think this has something to do

with endianness or something, I don’t know, the specifics are way over

my head. I could be completely wrong. It works now though, which is

good).

Yeah, that’s all for now I guess. Sorry if this is kinda unreadable. I

don’t really ever have a need to write things here so I’m not great at

it. Also our spellcheck is broken. It would be great if someone could

respond if anyone gets this so I know that it does actually work.

Bye!

--

Jill

flight9000 Communications Engineer