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Feb. 21st, 2016 12:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethToday's dream, in amongst the stuff about a goddess calling a magical girl to fight the evil of vegan cat food:
Ewan McGregor, Jaeger designer
Except these kaiju weren't coming up out of the ocean, they were dropping in across the world from above. The portals were opening mostly below where aircraft were flying (especially once the problem was known) but quite a long way up in the air. We had a worldwide monitoring system set up, probably a satellite network, looking for the particular energies released by a portal opening.
But we seemed to be having a quiet phase.
... engineers with a quiet phase kind of scattered to their own pet projects. I was printing out really intricate soaps in the 3D printer. I liked the one which looked like a grenade with ammo belts wrapped around it like knotwork. They all had my fellow engineers' names on them, like little presents. But they weren't especially appreciated, mostly ending up in a big jar in the corner.
So I looked at the raw data instead of waiting for something to hit red alert.
There were weather patterns that were hitting orange, but never quite going red. And they were weirdly symmetrical patterns. Some of the older ones had three little storms around a big storm center, but now there were five, in a very precise circle. And then while I was looking the exact same weather pattern happened on two continents at once.
So I yelled a lot and we started brainstorming how to figure if we had some kind of stealth kaiju invasion. Except obviously stealth kaiju as a concept kinda doesn't work. And these weather patterns were really big, to only be delivering something nobody had noticed.
I decided we needed swarm drones with lots of cameras and energy surge detectors and GPS, spread over a big area. Everyone kind of stared at me while I slapped together existing designs and swapped them out to get something small enough, chattering on about optimisation. We could drop them from airplanes and saturate an area. They'd all be pretty low res but if we tracked their position precisely enough we could paste the data together to get a much higher res look than the satellites tended to give us, especially under weather. We could use the algorithm I'd put together to predict roulette balls.
So then I went out to buy the largest jar of superballs.
Just, quest for the giant jar.
And then it went all vegan cat food.
But I liked the part where we were hanging out designing jaegers and having really intense end of the world relationships expressed via decorative soap. And sex.
Ewan McGregor, Jaeger designer
Except these kaiju weren't coming up out of the ocean, they were dropping in across the world from above. The portals were opening mostly below where aircraft were flying (especially once the problem was known) but quite a long way up in the air. We had a worldwide monitoring system set up, probably a satellite network, looking for the particular energies released by a portal opening.
But we seemed to be having a quiet phase.
... engineers with a quiet phase kind of scattered to their own pet projects. I was printing out really intricate soaps in the 3D printer. I liked the one which looked like a grenade with ammo belts wrapped around it like knotwork. They all had my fellow engineers' names on them, like little presents. But they weren't especially appreciated, mostly ending up in a big jar in the corner.
So I looked at the raw data instead of waiting for something to hit red alert.
There were weather patterns that were hitting orange, but never quite going red. And they were weirdly symmetrical patterns. Some of the older ones had three little storms around a big storm center, but now there were five, in a very precise circle. And then while I was looking the exact same weather pattern happened on two continents at once.
So I yelled a lot and we started brainstorming how to figure if we had some kind of stealth kaiju invasion. Except obviously stealth kaiju as a concept kinda doesn't work. And these weather patterns were really big, to only be delivering something nobody had noticed.
I decided we needed swarm drones with lots of cameras and energy surge detectors and GPS, spread over a big area. Everyone kind of stared at me while I slapped together existing designs and swapped them out to get something small enough, chattering on about optimisation. We could drop them from airplanes and saturate an area. They'd all be pretty low res but if we tracked their position precisely enough we could paste the data together to get a much higher res look than the satellites tended to give us, especially under weather. We could use the algorithm I'd put together to predict roulette balls.
So then I went out to buy the largest jar of superballs.
Just, quest for the giant jar.
And then it went all vegan cat food.
But I liked the part where we were hanging out designing jaegers and having really intense end of the world relationships expressed via decorative soap. And sex.
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Date: 2016-02-21 05:47 pm (UTC)