While we're waiting, so long as we have power, I'm going to go hang out in this HoloSim that Birmingham has been working on.
He said he's very proud of it, and that we've never seen anything like it.
Then again, he said that last time, and last time it was just a simulation of an old earth drinking establishment. He kept screaming CHEERS! and saying I KNOW ALL YOUR NAMES! and then when that didn't get a reaction, he conjured up a digital piano man and said "PLAY IT, SAM" and ...
I mean, everyone had a good time, but it wasn't exactly Revelatory.
He says this time will be different, and he's got a twinkly in his eye that makes me believe it. (But, you know, I always believe it. His enthusiasm is just so damn infectious.)