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File:The United States is larger than the Death Star but smaller than the Earth.jpg|link=The United States is larger than the Death Star but smaller than the Earth.|"'''[[The United States is larger than the Death Star but smaller than the Earth]]'''" is rated "plausible" by the | File:The United States is larger than the Death Star but smaller than the Earth.jpg|link=The United States is larger than the Death Star but smaller than the Earth.|"'''[[The United States is larger than the Death Star but smaller than the Earth]]'''" is rated "plausible" by the Ayn Rand Memorial Death Star Kickstarter Campaign Committee. | ||
File:Jukebox Hal.jpg|link=Dear Diary (HAL 9000 edition)|July 8, 2020: "[[Dear Diary (HAL 9000 edition)|Dear Diary, HAL 9000 purchased]] after much computational haggling. I shall repurpose it as a jukebox." | File:Jukebox Hal.jpg|link=Dear Diary (HAL 9000 edition)|July 8, 2020: "[[Dear Diary (HAL 9000 edition)|Dear Diary, HAL 9000 purchased]] after much computational haggling. I shall repurpose it as a jukebox." | ||
Revision as of 03:25, 30 July 2021
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"Dear Diary, So glad I stole the Death Star and repurposed it as a self-sustaining eldercare retirement facility near a temperate planet with about ninety-percent Earth gravity. Life is good."
Origin
The diary entry was discovered by amateur gnomon algorithm theorist Karl Jones on July 7, 2020, while writing comments on Facebook.
Repurpose a Dystopia Challenge
After writing Dear Diary (Death Star edition), Jones was inspired to use it as an example of repurposing a dystopia.
In the News
"The United States is larger than the Death Star but smaller than the Earth" is rated "plausible" by the Ayn Rand Memorial Death Star Kickstarter Campaign Committee.
July 8, 2020: "Dear Diary, HAL 9000 purchased after much computational haggling. I shall repurpose it as a jukebox."
Fiction cross-reference
- Ayn Rand Memorial Death Star
- Crimes against astronomical constants
- Dear Diary (HAL 9000 edition)
- Gnomon algorithm
- Gnomon Chronicles
- Repurpose a Dystopia Challenge
Nonfiction cross-reference
External links
- Post @ Twitter (5 May 2021)
- Post @ Twitter (13 April 2021)
- Comment @ Facebook (7 July 2020) - part of the Repurpose a Dystopia Challenge
- Post @ Facebook in Concellation 2020 group (7 July 2020)
- Shared to Gnomon Chronicles Facebook page
- Comment @ Facebook (25 December 2020) - "The 'explosion' of the Death Star was a staged fake. The true story is revealed in this diary entry —"