Stories tagged “technobabble”
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Transcopernican rift (technobabble challenge)
“Sir, we’re getting a graviton flux! It’s distorting the warp correlators. Initiating emergency transporter shut-down.” The young lieutenant seemed not to be taking the stress too well. “Well, Christine, we are heading thr...
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Exciting Venus Adventures!
“Venus CC, this is ESN Interlocutor requesting C-5 clearance.” “ESN Interlocutor this is Venus CC, please pass clearance codes.” Captain Jones swiveled up his OptiProj before turning to the AstroNav-328 behind him. “328, c...
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Posttranscriptional Event
Dr. Sterngold is very agitated. His assistant is late again and the photolithographic microarrays need to be characterised. He paces up and down checking his watch every five seconds. He is about the pick up the EST chart to do the job himself when she...
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Mummy, daddy, I want to be a dolphin.
The implantation of one half of an entangled pair into each individual neuron at the 63rd day after conception is key. Earlier and we lack enough implanted neurons to create a statistical model, any later and the process runs the risk of causing minor ...