Christopher Biggs on Nostr: ❝Look at the side of this trench, what do you notice?❞ It was my first day ...
❝Look at the side of this trench, what do you notice?❞
It was my first day volunteering at an archaeological dig, and I was thrilled to find Professor Ang not only down in the trench rolling her sleeves up, but taking time to explain things to the undergrad volunteers.
“There’s some sort of change here.” I indicated a horizontal discontinuity “Lots of metal and plastic below, mostly soil above”
❝And what does that make you think?❞
“Some kind of massive change of land use, was it another comet impact like KT?”
❝Good guess, but a different kind of impact❞ Professor Ang used a Polarizer trowel to excise a slice of the underlayer. There was a big artifact in the slice, some kind of pancake of aluminium and polymer and ceramic. Even veins of gold according to my specs. ❝Before the Repair mandate, manufactured goods were often welded or glued or used other one-way assembly. The Mandate gave the push to knock off that crap, and Polarizers were developed to allow reversible bonding of components. You’re looking at a political transition boundary, not a population one❞
“Wow.” I’d never thought of it that way.
❝Of course, it sucks to be us because this dig focuses on the post-mandate overlayer, where we don’t have helpfully discarded complete artifacts. You’re going to spend more time looking at mass spectrographs than ancient crushed macbooks❞
“Oh.”
#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot
It was my first day volunteering at an archaeological dig, and I was thrilled to find Professor Ang not only down in the trench rolling her sleeves up, but taking time to explain things to the undergrad volunteers.
“There’s some sort of change here.” I indicated a horizontal discontinuity “Lots of metal and plastic below, mostly soil above”
❝And what does that make you think?❞
“Some kind of massive change of land use, was it another comet impact like KT?”
❝Good guess, but a different kind of impact❞ Professor Ang used a Polarizer trowel to excise a slice of the underlayer. There was a big artifact in the slice, some kind of pancake of aluminium and polymer and ceramic. Even veins of gold according to my specs. ❝Before the Repair mandate, manufactured goods were often welded or glued or used other one-way assembly. The Mandate gave the push to knock off that crap, and Polarizers were developed to allow reversible bonding of components. You’re looking at a political transition boundary, not a population one❞
“Wow.” I’d never thought of it that way.
❝Of course, it sucks to be us because this dig focuses on the post-mandate overlayer, where we don’t have helpfully discarded complete artifacts. You’re going to spend more time looking at mass spectrographs than ancient crushed macbooks❞
“Oh.”
#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot