# abstract garme idea about the singing comet and cthulhu an imaginary garme / abstract play system concerning fact many have still yet to make the full connection between (/often also non terrifying) 'singing comet' 67p/churyumov-gerasimenko (67p/c-g) and persistent cultural memes like (eg.) 'cthulhu' // video here an interactive 'neuropink' transmedia event space exploring modern nonscientific nonrationalities in a (by now) e.s.e 'extremely scientific era' where advancements like the rosetta mission are commonplace this takes place (conceptually) within a software based virtual environment called the "l-shaped room" hidden deep inside the circuits of the philae lander of the rosetta robotic space probe unbeknown to the scientists working on the mission a collective network of advanced artificial intelligences - human beings - have together unconsciously self-assembled / 'hacked together' a rootkit personality construct (r.p.c) code named "dr. orloff" orloff exists as a cutting edge analogue memory algorithm (a.m.a) now self-inserted somewhere in the spare upper memory space of a chip on the philae lander the (stated) mission of r.p.c orloff is to "successfully run a parallel alternative narrative trajectory ('final approach') about modern science and unknowability alongside (equally bizarre) officially / culturally sanctioned 'epic' ones" the l-shaped room is a makeshift media lab for dr. orloff to collect and explore ('bare witness to') data on the official and unofficial meanings of the rosetta mission and report back - all while fully aware that acts of seeing are always non-neutral acts of interpretation "but an active interpretation based on what unstated 'epistemotological' assumptions?" is perhaps the whole point of this garme spacepace with the shadow of the nucleus cast onto the coma the nucleus is deliberately overexposed in order to reveal faint jets and the nature of the streams of gas and dust rising from the surface. from the last perihelion passage know that the comet will evolve by a factor of 100 in activity at that time compared to now reconstructing ir three-dimensional structures and linking them to specific areas of which the morphology and composition is now being investigated by big scientists revealing surface features from its one single dark-side. although this region is not yet illuminated directly - this will happen as the comet / researchers move ever closer to perihelion in august - the diffuse light reflected from other areas may allows a glimpse of what is to come the central image of this entire mission: the vision of a single lone spacecraft approaching the sheer ontologically terrifying / fascinating walls of a massive black rock endlessly tumbling and hurtling at blistering speed through the infinite void // republic of bob