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<li><strong>Disposition:</strong> go for launch</li>
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<p><em>Notes:</em> the loss of transfers irrevocably lost is disappointing but cannot be helped. Still, it is far below the loss from the Earth-L&lt;sub5&lt;/subAnsible, which, as a matter of course, implies the loss of a clade rather than a personality. One clade was lost irrevocably, but, at the risk of sounding crass, they knew they were signing up for this, and it is always a risk for taskers. That one loss represents 0.005% of the total transfer loss, and is vanishingly small in the grand scheme of things. Congratulations, as always, for another step closer to launch.</p>
<p><em>Notes:</em> the level of transfers irrevocably lost is disappointing but cannot be helped. Still, it is far below the loss from the Earth-L&lt;sub5</sub> Ansible, which, as a matter of course, implies the loss of a clade rather than a personality. One clade was lost irrevocably, but, at the risk of sounding crass, they knew they were signing up for this, and it is always a risk for taskers. That one loss represents 0.005% of the total transfer loss, and is vanishingly small in the grand scheme of things. Congratulations, as always, for another step closer to launch.</p>
<h2 id="attachment-history-questionnaire-1">Attachment: history questionnaire #1</h2>
<p>As mentioned, I am working with a historian &mdash; or rather, three forks of the same historian &mdash; to compile a history of the launch. Due to a certain incorrigible tricksiness, this will take the form of a mythology; something romantic to be passed down through the years. To this end, data collection is ramping up in the form of countless interviews. I have, of course, all the status reports a girl could ever want for the basic facts, all of the trials and tribulations over the last two decades, but that is only a small portion of a mythology. Should you and your superiors agree, I would like to begin the process of collecting testimonies from those phys-side.</p>
<h3 id="concrete-questions">Concrete questions</h3>
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<p><strong>Phys-side:</strong> 1</p>
<p><strong>Phys-side:</strong> Launch looks good.</p>
<p><strong>Phys-side:</strong> Watching the struts flex and jolt with the release of mass is quite beautiful.</p>
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<strong>Phys-side:</strong> They weren&rsquo;t kidding about the jerk. Two of them, actually, as the engines fired a half second after the jerk reached the torus. We&rsquo;ve got two injuries down here - bumps and bruises. Reports from the torus indicate that damage was minimal. Some sloshing from the hydroponics, but that&rsquo;s easy to clean up. One of the furnaces will need some care. Worst bit of damage, however, is that the solar array suffered a cascading failure: one panel broke loose and tumbled end-over-end across a few hundred others. Power&rsquo;s still nominal, though. We&rsquo;ll get it fixed.</p>
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<p><strong>Phys-side:</strong> They weren&rsquo;t kidding about the jerk. Two of them, actually, as the engines fired a half second after the jerk reached the torus. We&rsquo;ve got two injuries down here - bumps and bruises. Reports from the torus indicate that damage was minimal. Some sloshing from the hydroponics, but that&rsquo;s easy to clean up. One of the furnaces will need some care. Worst bit of damage, however, is that the solar array suffered a cascading failure: one panel broke loose and tumbled end-over-end across a few hundred others. Power&rsquo;s still nominal, though. We&rsquo;ll get it fixed.</p>
<p><strong>Phys-side:</strong> Did you feel anything up there?</p>
<p><strong>Sys-side:</strong> Har har. No, nothing up here. I, like you, wish that we had, though. If there had been some sudden jolt or a flicker of the lights, I think that perhaps this launch would have felt more real. I suspect that my cocladist, Dear, Also, The Tree That Was Felled, would have simulated an earthquake at the exact moment of launch, destroying its home in the process, but alas, it was one of those hopeless romantics who transferred entirely to the LVs without leaving a fork. I will have Ioan (my pet historian) ask if it did so from the LVs. I would not be surprised.</p>
<p><strong>Phys-side:</strong> Your clade sounds fascinating. I don&rsquo;t understand a single bit of it.</p>