Re: The Survival of the Big Pink Tree

Dr Keto
Medibay
A few hours after the Tree left
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Dr Keto slammed his fist triumphantly on his desk, staring at the information on the computer screen in front of him.
"Of course!" he said, "That explains how the tree hallucination could have survived after all crewmembers were cured!"
(Read as: hope this explains it weirdly enough...)
"We had two ointments. One cured hallucinators, so that they no longer hallucinated. One destroyed hallucinations themselves. However, we never considered what would happen if a hallucination hallucinated. If the Big Pink Tree were actually the hallucination of another hallucination, then when the first hallucination was destroyed then the Big Pink Tree would not vanish - its creator would not have been cured, merely dissolved. Of course!"
Highly pleased with this mound of gibberish, Dr Keto proceeded to switch the computer off without first going through the five-minute long shut-down verification process, and so erasing his last hour's work (and also making sure that the next time the computer was turned on it would have to pass through CheckDrive, the irritating and useless program that was designed to waste time and space).
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OOC - there may be a slight delay in further Keto posts, since Yahoo! appears to hate me and won't satisfactorially convert my account (technical hitch, also known as the Cookie Conundrum). Nevertheless I will try my best to keep up.
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