March 28, 2010

Flip-Slidin' Away

Compared to swapping my way through the impossible soup of One-Eight-Ones, I had a much easier time flittering my way along the meshwork and the coverings of Ones that formed the main barrier to the One-Eight-One soup. After flipping and scanning for a dozen or so hops, found myself bouncing between a pair of Ones attached to a Seven.

I made a quick inspection to make sure that I was on a dual-Six chain, and not something longer. After the second Six, I was relieved to find a pair of Eights, glombing onto Ones in the meshwork. A complete inspection revealed an ordinary balance of Neutrons so I took up a double orbit about the Eights so I could influence their choice of which One to glomb next.

There was a natural tendency for the original direction of travel to be preserved, and for the Shorty to permeate the meshwork and reach the other side. With things looking so similar, it is easy to loose track of your position, but I had a few of the heavy Shorties still locked into my scan as avoidance points. It took a little scanning to figure out the reference system the Electron group was using. After feeding some diligently applied taps to the cloud, my Shorty followed the cue and began glombing along toward the outer surface of the meshwork.

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