HOMEWORK for deadline Thursday 10pm, 24.04.25.
TASK: ‘The List’. Write 500 words or fewer about ‘The List’. Your story title isn’t included in the 500 words.
Homework to be in by 10pm at the latest, Thursday 24th April 2025. (This time deadline will be helpful to both Martyn and Pat).
Meeting at 1.30pm, Sunday 27.04.25, Waterstones Bookshop,1st floor, Oxford Street: subject to confirmation. Finish at 3.30pm.
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The discovery
The dig was no different initially than the many I had done before it, a century 20 tribute pile. These areas could be found everywhere – the 20s as we call them sacrificed huge quantities of resources by piling them into giant mounds. It has not been clear perhaps until now as to why. Most of them were only distinguishable by the unusual metallic and organic constitution of the soil which varied from the local normal. Metallic elements like tin and aluminium would be found in huge quantities, quantum variation testing has proved that these elements were likely produced in locations thousands of miles from the tribute. In most cases the mound being 1000’s of years old contained nothing we could use to determine its purpose. This one however was different. In a mound in the north western part of Eurussia, we found the ‘object’. A metallic hermetically sealed box containing an array of cylindrical discs separated by mechanical arms which appeared to be engineered to traverse the surface of the disk. When I presented the find to the overknow it was dismissed as irrelevant, but something about it had ensnared my attention -The discs had peculiar magnetic properties. The magnetic polarisation of the disc varied in rings which spiralled out from the center. As I examined the disc further the variations in polarisation seemed to be similar to the ancient binary language. Again I submitted my finding to the overknow. This time I was rewarded – the discs did indeed contain information – a chain of data – encoded in such a way that each block of data was only understandable with the entire history of blocks which preceded it. A list which could only be understood if only read from the beginning, we had found similar objects but were unable to decode the information they contained – This object contained the genesis block from which we were able to decode the history of the ancients ” 000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f”. With this information we were able to decode the entire history of the ancients, who had a mathematically based utopian society where success was based upon the ability to calculate prime factors