audio | callsign TN811N | DAY 21

[hyakuoku]

I was outside early this morning. The rain stopped so I went to go see if there was severe damage.

There was some weird ass light out there for a minute or two. Looked like a laser. Had a little bit of sputtering going on so maybe whatever made it is kinda messed up. Still, what the hell is a laser doing here? Are there satellites to worry about?

[ Ah, right, hold on. Senku-sensei might have to give some context. ]

If you don't know what a laser is, it's a word from an acronym: Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. Basically it's a really bright ass, concentrated beam of light. This one was huge, came from the sky, I think.

Satellites are machines that orbit the earth. If you need a rundown on what that means, I can do that, but I wouldn't say it's entirely relevant. But I'd give a lot for a real telescope right now.

[ He guesses he'll have to MAKE ONE then, but anyways! ]

Anyone else see something like this, or is it just near the airfield?

Comments

[desperate_times_right]

I dunno, if we really can't die, maybe we all got dropped into craters and our overlords gave us a do-over. Or that's why they dropped us all in the ocean, I guess.

[Probably not but the idea’s kind of funny]

Weird that so much stuff seems to be falling near where people are gathered, though.

[hyakuoku]

Maybe someone is actually trying to help us and they're just screwing it up playing with the multiverse dial.

[ He's flippant when he says it, but he's not entirely sure that's wrong. ]

Maybe we're supposed to find this stuff either way. Or maybe it's malicious. Maybe they're trying to hurt us. But...I don’t really think so. I think if they wanted to hurt us on purpose they would have.

[desperate_times_right]

Most of the stuff dropped near us wasn't very useful.

But yeah, easier ways to hurt us for sure. [She would know]

[hyakuoku]

I don't know if anything got dropped here. If it fell outta the sky in the storm, it didn't land on the hangars. Sounds like we're lucky, though. An elephant could have taken a whole bunch of us out at once.

The randomness of it is why I think that no matter what the goal is, it's not as easy as picking something on purpose. Who the hell would pick an elephant or a statue?

[desperate_times_right]

I was hoping that it being an Indian elephant specifically would tell us something about where the stuff was coming from, but the statue didn't look Indian.

since he technically knows about the cell phone by now!

[hyakuoku]

[ He thinks about this for a minute. ]

I think all this stuff is from where we're from. Or if this stuff isn't, some stuff on the island sure is. Someone here found something that ten billion percent couldn't have come from anywhere but my world. I figure the rest of this stuff is likely to be the same.

[desperate_times_right]

Huh. When we get to your base, I want to show you something.

[hyakuoku]

Now I'm excited to see what it is.

[ He sounds it, too. #madsciencevoice ]

[desperate_times_right]

I won't spoil the surprise, then. See you in a bit.