Oil and Meteors
Sep. 19th, 2010 09:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
davidnI had two dreams last night. The first of them involved being in Virginia again, and the group of us were looking up to the sky at night at a meteor shower. Suddenly, one of the streaks of light grew bigger, then came down and hit very near us. We went down the driveway to find the now-meteorite smouldering in the middle of the road outside - it had split open along a jagged seam, and inside among the smoke was a green and red spotted egg.
As we watched it, cracks appeared on its surface, and the egg hatched to reveal something that resembled a meeceosaurus, squawking as it emerged. Knowing that I should preserve this first evidence of life from beyond Earth, I got Whitney's camera out, but whenever I tried to take a picture it would turn out the camera was back to front and I would have a photo of my left ear.
The other dream was entirely unrelated and was about BP getting together a group of people to clean up the oil spill - you had to pass a written exam to get in, which they'd called the "Ice Field Test" - it was nothing to do with ice and they had just called it that in an attempt to make it seem more exciting. I think that one of the questions asked directly what the candidate would do to most efficiently remove the oil from the proximity of the coastline.
The winning entry, and method that they ended up using, was to get a podgy employee in red swimming trunks to wade into the sea off the beaches, and wobble his bottom in the direction of the spill - the ripples of his blubber would cause waves in the water that broke up the oil and washed it harmlessly out to sea.
Just another night, really.
As we watched it, cracks appeared on its surface, and the egg hatched to reveal something that resembled a meeceosaurus, squawking as it emerged. Knowing that I should preserve this first evidence of life from beyond Earth, I got Whitney's camera out, but whenever I tried to take a picture it would turn out the camera was back to front and I would have a photo of my left ear.
The other dream was entirely unrelated and was about BP getting together a group of people to clean up the oil spill - you had to pass a written exam to get in, which they'd called the "Ice Field Test" - it was nothing to do with ice and they had just called it that in an attempt to make it seem more exciting. I think that one of the questions asked directly what the candidate would do to most efficiently remove the oil from the proximity of the coastline.
The winning entry, and method that they ended up using, was to get a podgy employee in red swimming trunks to wade into the sea off the beaches, and wobble his bottom in the direction of the spill - the ripples of his blubber would cause waves in the water that broke up the oil and washed it harmlessly out to sea.
Just another night, really.
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