"Doing what? Linguistics? There are only four languages to be had."

"I also invented an alphabet for Quenya and in the other Arda the me invented -" he counts on his fingers - "the telescope, the movable-type printing press, the telegraph, the lightbulb, the first algorithm for efficient sorting, parallel processing, satellite television, nuclear power, faster-than-light travel..."

"...well, I know the person who invented the lightbulb here, but he's married to an oracle..."

Great.

"We can always meet him some other time."

"Sure. The printing press we had when Samaria was settled, and telescopes, and I don't know the other things."

"We're really bad at this parameterization thing, apparently."

I didn't even cast the spell this time or I'd think it was prioritizing finding alts for some reason!

Finding alts is great but we just want a nice godless world first.

I know! The spell seems not to!

Well, we can always start again.

Eventually we may have to consider the possibility that all worlds have gods.

...maybe, yeah. 

Ugh.

At least some of them are less dangerous.

Yeah. But it's not fair.

It's not. Maybe we'll just have to make a pocket world and grow it for a really long time.

"You can do that?"

Yeah!

Magic can do pretty much anything once you can do science to it!

"...can you normally not do that?"

"No because Bella's first world is horrible and eats you."

"...huh?"

The world punishes attempts to systematically figure it out or exploit its regularities, often fatally. We've made a lot of progress but all by other means.

"And the Valar sent her back."

"- why?"