Bay 12 Games Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

Author Topic: LEGO Detection Confirmed!  (Read 1092 times)

Starver

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
LEGO Detection Confirmed!
« on: February 12, 2016, 09:03:44 am »

It has been confirmed that at approximately 07:45 local time, in the Robinson family home, Mr Robinson's LEGO Detector recorded a confirmed 'event' upon the stairs.

The LEGO Detector, one of a pair operated by Mr Robinson, consists of two complex 'lengths' of calcium-based microstructures, carefully engineered to support Mr Robinson's perambulatory activities, at a basic right-angle to each other.  There is a mostly vertical length primarily calibrated to resist the force of Earth gravity and a mostly horizontal one that is used to maintain the overall verticality of the former, whilst in operation.  For operational reasons, including the need to dampen unwanted external forces, they do not consist of single elements, but are actually a collection of loose-linked structures, surrounded by a supporting sheathe of padding, sensory networks and maintenance tubes through which a basic combined heat-exchange, oxygenation and fuel-bearing liquid flows.

The above device is often deliberately desensitised by successive layers of fabric and harder materials, especially when used in conjunction with experiments in propulsion towards both monetary gain, via employment, and monetary loss, in the form of retail, these traditionally taking place outside the Robinson family home where environmental conditions are often detrimental to the apparatus being undampened and unprotected.  (Those familiar with the Robinson Family Home may be aware of some other attempts at both forms of monetary flow using the family computer, but neither has yet been deemed completely satisfactory without supplemental external efforts.)  This event, however, occurred during a short period of time in which the relevant steering group had not yet anticipated the need for changing the mode of operation from the basic unclad format.

The actual detection was heralded by a spike in the background detection data by the lower beam of the detector, and was indicated by a loud audio signal once the detection had been sufficiently processed by the Master Control Room for the device.  Full confirmation of the event was delayed by a short period of necessary down-time by the LEGO Detector concerned, the paired Detector doing double duty for the duration whilst the full extent of the original detection was fully investigated and the original Detector inspected for damage.  (In the immediate aftermath, a pattern of two by eight 'dots' were observed to have been impressed upon the Detector's lower surface, but later observations by Mrs Robinson affirmed that these were only temporary and could now hardly be observed at all.)

Further calculations and investigations are needed, but it is highly expected that once the scientific community has collated the evidence and examined the physical evidence, including that which can be observed in situ upon the stairs, that the source of the detection may well have been one or other of Holly Robinson (5) or Ben Robinson (7), normally located at that time in one of the smaller upstairs bedrooms.  Both bedrooms are known to contain large LEGO clusters (themselves rarely triggering a similar LEGO Detection event, due to their larger mass, visibility and stability), from which single LEGO particles have been known to escape during high-energy events, especially in the early night-time hours when local activity is supposed to be reduced.  It is supposed that the LEGO particle itself had managed to remain undetected overnight whilst the LEGO Detectors and their connected infrastructure were themselves taken down for their regular overnight maintenance and cool-down.

Mrs Robinson later opined that, whilst there was much excitement at the time, whichever of either Holly Robinson or Ben Robinson that it was who actually precipitated the episode were lucky that nothing as substantial as a full system crash had occurred, with Mr Robinson, and that next time such particles might irrevocably end up lost in the the space of vacuum.  Mr Robinson has not yet revealed much more about the detection, beyond the burst of four-letter data automatically given out during the initial announcement.
Logged

~Neri

  • Bay Watcher
  • Now back to our regularly scheduled bark.
    • View Profile
Re: LEGO Detection Confirmed!
« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2016, 09:05:08 am »

.. Wat?
Logged

Reverie

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: LEGO Detection Confirmed!
« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2016, 09:05:52 am »

I lol'd at calcium-based microstructures. Did you pull this off of a satire site?
Logged

Starver

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: LEGO Detection Confirmed!
« Reply #3 on: February 12, 2016, 09:21:46 am »

I lol'd at calcium-based microstructures. Did you pull this off of a satire site?
My own work.  (But I'm sure someone else can do better.)

(In fact, feel free to do it better, and find a fresh forum/etc to put it on whilst rightfully claiming it as your own...  Yeah, I'd be happy with that.  I'm sure I'm not the only person been thinking this, anyway...  And the phrase "lost in the the space of vacuum" has only the one unintended error, in it, if you're tempted to clean that up...)
« Last Edit: February 12, 2016, 10:27:45 am by Starver »
Logged

Grimlocke

  • Bay Watcher
  • *kobold noises*
    • View Profile
Re: LEGO Detection Confirmed!
« Reply #4 on: February 12, 2016, 11:34:54 am »

Heheh nice one, gave me a few chuckles :P
Logged
I make Grimlocke's History & Realism Mods. Its got poleaxes, sturdy joints and bloomeries. Now compatible with DF Revised!

RedKing

  • Bay Watcher
  • hoo hoo motherfucker
    • View Profile
Re: LEGO Detection Confirmed!
« Reply #5 on: February 12, 2016, 11:53:37 am »

I believe the detector's full name is the Foreign Object Occlusion Tensor.
Logged

Remember, knowledge is power. The power to make other people feel stupid.
Quote from: Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Science is like an inoculation against charlatans who would have you believe whatever it is they tell you.

Flying Dice

  • Bay Watcher
  • inveterate shitposter
    • View Profile
Re: LEGO Detection Confirmed!
« Reply #6 on: February 12, 2016, 12:33:26 pm »

Heh. Well-done, m80.

Maybe another piece on the quantum state of physiologically unique LEGO particles when Holly and/or Ben are conducting interpersonal interactions with non-Robinson entities of similar chronological age? Such are only resolved once the acquaintances have departed, at which point the particles of interest will either appear in their usual location or in the pockets of the interloper.
Logged


Aurora on small monitors:
1. Game Parameters -> Reduced Height Windows.
2. Lock taskbar to the right side of your desktop.
3. Run Resize Enable

Rose

  • Bay Watcher
  • Resident Elf
    • View Profile
Re: LEGO Detection Confirmed!
« Reply #7 on: February 12, 2016, 12:38:42 pm »

This is great.
Logged

RedKing

  • Bay Watcher
  • hoo hoo motherfucker
    • View Profile
Re: LEGO Detection Confirmed!
« Reply #8 on: February 12, 2016, 12:41:22 pm »

Heh. Well-done, m80.

Maybe another piece on the quantum state of physiologically unique LEGO particles when Holly and/or Ben are conducting interpersonal interactions with non-Robinson entities of similar chronological age? Such are only resolved once the acquaintances have departed, at which point the particles of interest will either appear in their usual location or in the pockets of the interloper.
Schrodinger's Minifig?
Logged

Remember, knowledge is power. The power to make other people feel stupid.
Quote from: Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Science is like an inoculation against charlatans who would have you believe whatever it is they tell you.

TempAcc

  • Bay Watcher
  • [CASTE:SATAN]
    • View Profile
Re: LEGO Detection Confirmed!
« Reply #9 on: February 12, 2016, 12:54:26 pm »

For a moment I thought this was a bot post ala the old kitchen appliance bot, but regardless, I was not disappointed.
Logged
On normal internet forums, threads devolve from content into trolling. On Bay12, it's the other way around.
There is no God but TempAcc, and He is His own Prophet.

jaked122

  • Bay Watcher
  • [PREFSTRING:Lurker tendancies]
    • View Profile
Re: LEGO Detection Confirmed!
« Reply #10 on: February 12, 2016, 02:06:08 pm »

This is a quality shitpost. I love it.
It has been confirmed that at approximately 07:45 local time, in the Robinson family home, Mr Robinson's LEGO Detector recorded a confirmed 'event' upon the stairs.

The LEGO Detector, one of a pair operated by Mr Robinson, consists of two complex 'lengths' of calcium-based microstructures, carefully engineered to support Mr Robinson's perambulatory activities, at a basic right-angle to each other.  There is a mostly vertical length primarily calibrated to resist the force of Earth gravity and a mostly horizontal one that is used to maintain the overall verticality of the former, whilst in operation.  For operational reasons, including the need to dampen unwanted external forces, they do not consist of single elements, but are actually a collection of loose-linked structures, surrounded by a supporting sheathe of padding, sensory networks and maintenance tubes through which a basic combined heat-exchange, oxygenation and fuel-bearing liquid flows.
You forgot that bone is piezoelectric, that would be a good thing for a gravity wave detector spoof. Also this is the closest I've ever seen to comparing a foot to a rocketship.


Padding, maintenance tubes, heat exchangers, oxygenation and fuel bearing flows? This is practically a Saturn V!