Numbers

You can measure

a crash site, fallout makes numbers

the machines can

digest.

 

Velocity

 

Tragedy has velocity -

that's all

I'm saying.

Merry Christmas, Guardsman-A-Day

 

Merry Christmas, Guardsman-a-Day!

This is our twelfth holiday season

together

and I'm so happy to be with you

again and again.

Away Team, And. . .

All the best data comes from disaster.

 

And Even More About Science

 

More About Science 2

 

I mean, the guys in the lab

have only got so many machines to work with.

More About Science

 

So

no surprises.

The Scientific Method

 

Hermetically sealed in

a rubber suit 

to

take readings and observations with 

sensors that 

we ourselves designed to record what we anticipated 

we might find, years 

before we even arrived.

This, science.

Sensors (2)

 

Sensors

 

Functionally

your sensors can only

read

what they have been designed

to read.

On Further Observation (ii)

 

you're only as good as

your engineering.

On Further Observation

The basic problem with observation

is the basic problem 

with hard science: 

 

Observation

 

The acquisition of information

from

a primary source.

The First Rule

 

The first rule

is

Observation.

Away

 

The Away Team (5)

 

Species.

The Away Team (4)

 

Genus.

The Away Team (3)

 

Family.

The Away Team (2)

 

Class.

Order.

The Away Team

 

Kingdom,

 Phylum. 

The Crew Of The CBL-21 Blanket Ivy (final)

 

Between then and now

between then and now

now and then.

The Crew Of The CBL-21 Blanket Ivy (winding down)

 

All we can do is listen-

you there

in this moment, me

here in mine.

The Crew Of The CBL-21 Blanket Ivy (32)

 

While from the future-

a message

complicated by uncertain visions.