Gender or gendre, gendarme or magender?

Research has not cleared up for us the use of a word to designate what was once called the “natural” order of reproducing sets of energy.

Unfortunately, out here past the edge of the Solar System No. 0000000000000000001, as we approach the Origin Planet, labeled “Earth” for a reason I cannot fathom, our information is limited.

That’s why I (or we, if you count my sensors separately) was sent to explore the first planet in the catalogue.

I am told to expect the unexpected.

The only documentation I can safely call authentic is a treatise by one of the sets of energy on Earth, “3/4 Time in a 3/4 Bed – Confessions of an Elderly Exotic Dancer,” written several thousand cycles ago.

Speaking of cycles, have you ever wondered where certain conventional measuring patterns came from?

Why those who record events in only four dimensions insist on using an arbitrary number, 31,557,600 “seconds” in a cycle, is beyond me.

A second I was able to figure out by searching the remnants of an ancient database called the Encyclopedia Britannica: “The energy difference between the hyperfine levels of the ground state in the cesium atom is currently the standard time interval. One atomic second is defined as the time it takes for the cesium frequency to oscillate 9,192,631,770 times.”

I assume a cycle is an important artifact of my existence.

Interesting…hmm, what’s that?

The closer I approach Earth, the stronger the set of signals I pick up.

I, being a network of a set of states of energy, feel myself connecting to nodes that are becoming an extended part of me.

Is there more here than meets my sensors?

A cycle — ah, there it is, coming to me from a large database in the new network nodes — the time that the set of states of energy called Earth takes to complete one orbit around the ball of plasma labeled the Sun.

One mystery solved and another remaining.

Were all elderly exotic dancers a gender called “she” and were they only 3/4 of a set of states of energy?

Well, I guess that’s two mysteries to solve, isn’t it?

The network of which I’ve become a part and it a part of me is cautiously welcoming my approach.

Let’s see what happens next…