b1-66er:
10:00 second sleep dream
{I'm standing in a conference room with ½ dozen or so men. Everyone's pretty serious}
My brother sez, "This is what we've been working on."
I just got it...This must be something like a design review.
The very first thing I think is, Don't embarrass your brother...Don't embarrass your brother...Don't embarrass your brother.
He gestures for my hand and places a small cardboard model on my extended palm...
...But as I look closer at it, I can see that the object isn't cardboard, it's actually fabricated metal of some kind (maybe 3D printed?).
The entire piece is a burnished bronze and looks something like the top of a British Cruiser tank.
"Can I touch it?" I ask (even though I already am).
He sez, "Sure." but in the most Do. Not. Break. It. voice imaginable.
I'm struck that this is a model for habitation.
Space habitation.
I had no idea he'd been working on this...
And it's filled with points of articulation.
The bottom level of three has a significant amount of piping.
The second has nothing much more than what to look to me to be vents and bolted entry ways.
Although the unit as a whole is octagonal, it appears there're four separate living quarters on top.
I don't think I'd ever thought of dividing a symmetrical octagon in four parts by putting a + through the middle.
The entire top rotates and as you do, the model makes a rattling sound of something heavy being on roller bearings.
I can see a highly stylized item on the outer edge of one side.
I'm shocked. "IS THAT A BARBECUE!?"
67 sez, "Of course. It's not like you can have a swimming pool on the moon."
I'm suddenly completely flooded with emotion. I start crying and hand the model to my brother to keep from dropping it as I do.
I hear one of the guys in the back of the room say, "he's crying." Another sez, "Yeah, he's like that."
b1-67er: I love your moon bbq dream
[EOD]
