Anonymous ID: f2eb08 July 26, 2022, 1:09 p.m. No.16830673   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>2284

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You're cleared for landing! ๐Ÿš

 

Sailors aboard #USSEssex (LHD 2) conduct helicopter operations in the #PacificOcean.

 

๐Ÿ“ธ by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Isaak Martinez

 

https://twitter.com/USNavy/status/1540455511002316801

Anonymous ID: f2eb08 July 26, 2022, 1:09 p.m. No.16830689   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>2346

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Welcome to "The Library of Babel"

 

(Spanish: La biblioteca de Babel) is a short story by Argentine author and librarian Jorge Luis Borges (1899โ€“1986), conceiving of a universe in the form of a vast library containing all possible 410-page books of a certain format and character set.

 

Borges' narrator describes how his universe consists of an enormous expanse of adjacent hexagonal rooms. In each room, there is an entrance on one wall, the bare necessities for human survival on another wall, and four walls of bookshelves. Though the order and content of the books are random and apparently completely meaningless, the inhabitants believe that the books contain every possible ordering of just 25 basic characters (22 letters, the period, the comma, and space). Though the vast majority of the books in this universe are pure gibberish, the library also must contain, somewhere, every coherent book ever written, or that might ever be written, and every possible permutation or slightly erroneous version of every one of those books. The narrator notes that the library must contain all useful information, including predictions of the future, biographies of any person, and translations of every book in all languages. Conversely, for many of the texts, some language could be devised that would make it readable with any of a vast number of different contents.

 

Despiteโ€”indeed, because ofโ€”this glut of information, all books are totally useless to the reader, leaving the librarians in a state of suicidal despair. This leads some librarians to superstitious and cult-like behaviors, such as the "Purifiers", who arbitrarily destroy books they deem nonsense as they scour through the library seeking the "Crimson Hexagon" and its illustrated, magical books. Others believe that since all books exist in the library, somewhere one of the books must be a perfect index of the library's contents; some even believe that a messianic figure known as the "Man of the Book" has read it, and they travel through the library seeking him.

Anonymous ID: f2eb08 July 26, 2022, 1:09 p.m. No.16830725   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>1542 >>3097

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>>16828202

 

these ARE the best of times anon!

 

this is what we have been working and lurking for

THIS is it!

What part of

 

ENJOY THE SHOW

 

escapes (you)?

 

use a smile and a song in that heart of yours to spread the love and winning that is all over

 

without eyes and ears people will never see