Revisited Numbers

ENCRYPTION LEVEL: THREE

[Voice Recognition Initialized]

[Subjects Identified: A001, A435]

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Director: Unacceptable.

Jones: I'm just telling you the numbers, Director, I'm not responsible for them.

Director: In your earlier e-mail you claimed the issue would be solved by the Pod.

Jones: Yeah, the weight issue. And it was solved. The problem now is the insane amount of power that big thing eats every time it prints a colonist.

Director: So how do you suppose we meet these target numbers? Fossil fuels are exhausted, nuclear is outlawed, solar is next to impossible with this smog.

Jones: I dunno. That's why you've got researchers, I just crunch numbers. Although you should avoid fossil fuels and nuclear energy anyway. If you have to load the rocket up with a couple tons of fuel then we're back to square one on the weight problem. It's gotta be something clever.

Director: Thank you, Dr. Jones. You may go.

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[Subjects Identified: A001, B111]

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Jackie: Dr. Jones projects that traditional fuel will be insufficient for the Pod to make the flight.

Olivia: Then we need to change its specs. Use lighter materials, cut weight wherever possible, do widespread optimizations across the whole project.

Jackie: We have another option.

Olivia: No. Absolutely not. You needed me and I-I came back, but if you plan to revive our research—

Jackie: The world's doomed regardless, Olivia. We need to use any advantage we've got... And just think about it! If we built [REDACTED] technology into the Pod it wouldn't just fix the flight problem, we'd know for a fact it would run uninterrupted for thousands of years, maybe more.