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subnautica2016-10-02 12:06 am
bonomial) wrote in subnautica2016-10-02 12:06 am
Getting Tired of All These Microscopic Miscreants [Video/Action] | Backdated to September 30
[Don has been working hard, and it's finally paid off.
When the video snaps on, it's pointed to an unassuming handheld scanner on the table in front of him. The scanner's fairly close to this design, but with a few obvious signs of Don's "artistic" influence - the green, scaled texture on the handle being the most noticeable of these. After a few moments of everybody being treated to these awe-inspiring visuals, Don starts up, clearly eager to show his newest creation to the base.]
Introducing the Shell Scanner! I've been working on this for a few weeks with samples from several of our prominent base scientists, and courtesy of a few Monolith pods I've gotten it finalized. What this scanner does is analyze the biological contents of seawater or material you've placed in front of it in about a square foot of material, checking for any little critters in or on it - like the bacterial-fungal hybrid that causes Jellyshroom Sickness. Take a look:
[Don pauses to push two labelled petri dishes into the line of the camera. One's labelled A, the other B.]
Petri Dish A has a sample of the Jellyshroom disease growing in it, whereas B doesn't. [Offscreen, Don points the scanner at the first dish; it beeps a few times, an indicator light on the side blinking as it processes, before its built-in screen returns the result - the Jellyshroom sickness, listed in what seems to be a new part of the database. He repeats the action on the second petri dish, which yields nothing after several minutes of scanning; Don makes a satisfied sound.]
Right now, when it comes to this specific disease, I've got a success rate of about... eighty percent with the Shell Scanner's detection scanning. I'm hoping that with more samples and better material, I'll be able to make that success rate even higher! To make that goal easier, I've started a new database section that handles microscopic organisms. Anybody with solid biology knowledge would be great for helping me recognize common microbes here, as well as whatever microbes we might've imported from our own worlds.
So, the short version: The Shell Scanner's pretty much a portable microscope and database that can identify what might be living in any samples you have. The more information we add to its database, the better it's gonna get at identifying new microbes we run into. Iniidae's dangerous enough with the stuff we can see, so let's do something about what we can't.
[Assuming you feel like dropping by the Tech Labs to see this thing in person, Donatello's there, still adding to the new database's information on whatever microbes he seems to be able to get off of himself - or maybe on something formerly alive that didn't quite avoid decomposition. It... may not smell the greatest in the labs right now, whoops. Don't worry, though, this is totally worth it for science!]
When the video snaps on, it's pointed to an unassuming handheld scanner on the table in front of him. The scanner's fairly close to this design, but with a few obvious signs of Don's "artistic" influence - the green, scaled texture on the handle being the most noticeable of these. After a few moments of everybody being treated to these awe-inspiring visuals, Don starts up, clearly eager to show his newest creation to the base.]
Introducing the Shell Scanner! I've been working on this for a few weeks with samples from several of our prominent base scientists, and courtesy of a few Monolith pods I've gotten it finalized. What this scanner does is analyze the biological contents of seawater or material you've placed in front of it in about a square foot of material, checking for any little critters in or on it - like the bacterial-fungal hybrid that causes Jellyshroom Sickness. Take a look:
[Don pauses to push two labelled petri dishes into the line of the camera. One's labelled A, the other B.]
Petri Dish A has a sample of the Jellyshroom disease growing in it, whereas B doesn't. [Offscreen, Don points the scanner at the first dish; it beeps a few times, an indicator light on the side blinking as it processes, before its built-in screen returns the result - the Jellyshroom sickness, listed in what seems to be a new part of the database. He repeats the action on the second petri dish, which yields nothing after several minutes of scanning; Don makes a satisfied sound.]
Right now, when it comes to this specific disease, I've got a success rate of about... eighty percent with the Shell Scanner's detection scanning. I'm hoping that with more samples and better material, I'll be able to make that success rate even higher! To make that goal easier, I've started a new database section that handles microscopic organisms. Anybody with solid biology knowledge would be great for helping me recognize common microbes here, as well as whatever microbes we might've imported from our own worlds.
So, the short version: The Shell Scanner's pretty much a portable microscope and database that can identify what might be living in any samples you have. The more information we add to its database, the better it's gonna get at identifying new microbes we run into. Iniidae's dangerous enough with the stuff we can see, so let's do something about what we can't.
[Assuming you feel like dropping by the Tech Labs to see this thing in person, Donatello's there, still adding to the new database's information on whatever microbes he seems to be able to get off of himself - or maybe on something formerly alive that didn't quite avoid decomposition. It... may not smell the greatest in the labs right now, whoops. Don't worry, though, this is totally worth it for science!]