Bennett Rainsford (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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resort_link2014-08-11 08:30 am
usfuzzies) wrote in resort_link2014-08-11 08:30 am
Video: PSA
Someone wasn't doing inventory on liftoff--
[Ben's red whiskers bristle irascibly. This is careless stuff. It happens, but he doesn't have to like it.]
Everyone who goes outside the fence should already be counting their gear, but if you needed a reason, these props are it. Adaptive little critters like this can wreak havoc on an ecosystem, and this ecosystem is plenty problematic already.
The largest 'predators' on Quadratus, the spiders, won't eat props. Hounds may be able to detect them and hopefully the pseudofelinoids-- the beasts or the cats depending on your parlance-- will think they're tasty. But the upshot is that there may not be a control if these things get a foothold in the wild.
We all know what bullfrogs did to Australia on Terra, right? And terran brown rats on Shesha?
Double-check your gear before you go out. Even if you don't care about the ecosystem, the last thing you want is to reach for your last bottle of water and have it run off.
[Ben's red whiskers bristle irascibly. This is careless stuff. It happens, but he doesn't have to like it.]
Everyone who goes outside the fence should already be counting their gear, but if you needed a reason, these props are it. Adaptive little critters like this can wreak havoc on an ecosystem, and this ecosystem is plenty problematic already.
The largest 'predators' on Quadratus, the spiders, won't eat props. Hounds may be able to detect them and hopefully the pseudofelinoids-- the beasts or the cats depending on your parlance-- will think they're tasty. But the upshot is that there may not be a control if these things get a foothold in the wild.
We all know what bullfrogs did to Australia on Terra, right? And terran brown rats on Shesha?
Double-check your gear before you go out. Even if you don't care about the ecosystem, the last thing you want is to reach for your last bottle of water and have it run off.
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Doctor Bennet Rainsford-- I'm with the Terran Institute of Xenosciences. [Since he can't shake Bruce's hand, he defaults automatically to view screen formality, clasping his hands together and giving a brief distracted bow over them.]
This prop infestation's taken over my current research, but we have plenty of spider samples-- I'll give you the lot numbers from cold storage and the notes on what conditions they were taken in.
How are you with soil analysis-?
no subject
Thanks, I'd appreciate it. And-- not great, but I can learn? It can't be that different from every other kind of chemical analysis I've run. In the meantime I was going to try to make a scanner for finding props.
[This is the sort of thing Bruce can put together when he sets his mind to it, much more his strength than the biological end of things.]