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 (DIR) Post #B14uTUfjefYWsjbUVU by fribbledom@mastodon.social
       2025-12-08T11:12:12Z
       
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       In the year 2030, the simulations team published their paper: the universe showed unmistakable signs of artificial rendering, and a second anomaly, the "outer boundary", pulsed like a firewall in deep space.Voyager 1 was headed straight for it. Once its physical coordinates crossed that boundary, the simulation would crash.[1/4]
       
 (DIR) Post #B14uTaZZiUC3BMlejo by fribbledom@mastodon.social
       2025-12-08T11:12:35Z
       
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       Scientists held a global press conference.They explained the boundary.Interception? Impossible.Redirection? Impossible.Shutting down its systems? Useless.Humanity's fate now depended on a spacecraft older than disco.But not everyone believed it."Boundary hoax", they called it."Voyager's too small to break the universe!"A cult formed insisting Voyager didn't even exist.[2/4]
       
 (DIR) Post #B14uTgsEI2gEixXdeC by fribbledom@mastodon.social
       2025-12-08T11:12:49Z
       
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       Researchers tried explaining the math, the quantum tearing, the jitter in cosmic background rendering.But belief had never cared about math.People protested against the simulation narrative. Others marched for acceptance of the inevitable. Street fights broke out between Render-deniers and Boundary realists.Some people panicked. Others partied.Most kept going to work because apparently even the end of reality isn't enough to skip Monday meetings.And Voyager?It simply kept going.[3/4]
       
 (DIR) Post #B14uTn5DCgd7yxf5iS by fribbledom@mastodon.social
       2025-12-08T11:13:00Z
       
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       A 730-kilogram metal pensioner drifting toward the universe's kill-screen at a speed best described as "slightly faster than boredom". A tiny blip moving closer to a flickering line that wasn't supposed to exist.The final prediction was released.Voyager would cross the line in 12 hours.In the end, humanity discovered the profound meaning of existence:We were always doomed...but at least it wasn't our fault for once.[4/4]