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This is excellent. I'd love it if it had a collaborative recovery log on another page along the lines of 261 and the other classics.
This.
We've already got a toilet bowl of diamonds, I'd love to see what other trash 27 universes worth of people throw away.
EDIT: And I just now got the implication of the toilet bowl full of diamonds. Sometimes I'm just the densest person ever.
(account deleted)24 Jul 2012 17:23I too enjoyed this article, but I'm not sure I agree about the collective log. I kind of like this one the way it is.
Me too, I think if there was a collaborative log on this one I would enjoy it a lot less. At least be sure to put something like that off page where it doesn't ruin the original piece.
I'm very happy to sit down with a can of Conqueror Worm Energy Drink, a sandwich of Murray's Marvelous Marmite, and play laser-pointer-chase with my saber-toothed kitty. In fact if I had to envision a physical heaven, that would occur for at *least* a good year or so for me.
SCP-1330 appears to only affect items discarded as being worthless,
How did the researchers come to that conclusion? From the article, it sounds like the only conclusion they could logically come to is that it won't affect an item if anyone wants the item to be affected.
I like the concept (and the diamonds made me giggle).
Some of the paragraphs could be broken up into multiple paragraphs (especially the containment procedures).
and stored in the appropriate chamber
How would someone reading this know which chamber is the appropriate one?
I think the second log, where they try to get the dump to accept anything, is a little too rambling - it has too many entries to get to the final point, which seems to be "The dump won't accept anything somebody intends for it to accept, regardless of the source of that intent."
Is the reason it won't accept the research items because it refuses intentional dumpings, or because the information hoped to be gained from the research attaches some value to the items, making them not worthless?
The latter. The reason why the last log is long is to show the Foundation becoming increasingly desperate in their attempts to outwit what is basically a pile of garbage, and failing.
The more I think about this one the more I like it. The pile only accepts items that are worthless but attempting to observe an item assigns worth. Brilliant! Very Douglas Adams-esque. Upvoted.
Shouldn't all the recovered items be horribly damaged or otherwise ruined or useless in some way or other?
Most are, but not all of them. This thing will accept anything considered worthless- this includes a book you got but never wanted, an old newspaper, or a family album from a family which might not exist anymore, in one way or another. People throw away stuff which might not be objectively worthless, but it is to them. The reason non of the Foundation's items pass through is that they are interested in them passing, and by doing so giving them worth.
People throw away stuff which might not be objectively worthless, but it is to them. The reason non of the Foundation's items pass through is that they are interested in them passing, and by doing so giving them worth.
Well reasoned, and well said. I really like the concept of this SCP and the underlying thought process. Makes me wonder about what sorts of "trash" people generate, and all the different things people would regard as "useless".
The reason why the last log is long is to show the Foundation becoming increasingly desperate in their attempts to outwit what is basically a pile of garbage, and failing.
This is an excellent sentence.
Upvoted. I like this a lot. The idea at the heart of it is just a bumper sticker aphorism, but playing it for genre actually adds a fair amount of depth, enables some wry goofiness, makes interesting commentaries on politics and consumerism, and uses the context of the Foundation well. It's effective on several levels without taking itself too seriously. The testing is well-executed and communicates the frustration of the people dealing with it very simply. All in all, a damn good piece of work.
I love this so much. With all the dimension-hopping that goes on in the Foundationverse, they all gotta have trashsomewhere.
Also, Conqueror Worm Energy Drink and Golgotha, Ohio made me try to upvote twice.
I didn't expect to like this…but I do.
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!