Don’t Forget Predictions For Lab in Year 2031
"Employees now have two ways to submit their predictions about what life will be like when Berkeley Lab turns 100 in 2031: send your predictions here, or drop them in the box provided in the lobby of the Cafeteria. The future visions will be included in a time capsule that will be sealed at the Founders Day picnic on Aug. 26, to be opened at the Centennial ceremony in 25 years."
From: Patrick Bennett
Date: Aug 11, 2006 10:52 AM
Subject: Year 2031 Lab Prediction
2031: The lab will roam the scorched countryside on twelve mechanical spider legs, each two kilometers long, devouring any wayward humans it encounters for fuel. All research universities will have constructed escape tunnels and spotter towers (because the lab is invisible to radar) manned continuously around the school on a ring eight miles in diameter, lest their scientists be captured by the lab and impressed into academic servitude. Berkeley Lab and Livermore Lab will be locked in a fierce struggle for dominance of the pacific northwest for many years, finally ending when Livermore takes to the sea, gorging itself on the many bountiful research parks located along the coastal regions of china and south-east Asia. Los Alamos Lab will migrate yearly between Wyoming and northern Canada following herds of traveling Uranium deposits, its primary source of food, while other labs will have disappeared completely, believed to have made their final journey to a national laboratory graveyard somewhere in the Sierra Madre, although no living person has ever laid eyes upon it.
From: Lynn Yarris
Date: Aug 11, 2006 11:03 AM
Subject: Re: Year 2031 Lab Prediction
Patrick,
Interesting prediction but it begs the question: How will this affect my
retirement check? Thanks!
Lynn
From: Patrick Bennett
Date: Aug 11, 2006 10:52 AM
Subject: Year 2031 Lab Prediction
2031: The lab will roam the scorched countryside on twelve mechanical spider legs, each two kilometers long, devouring any wayward humans it encounters for fuel. All research universities will have constructed escape tunnels and spotter towers (because the lab is invisible to radar) manned continuously around the school on a ring eight miles in diameter, lest their scientists be captured by the lab and impressed into academic servitude. Berkeley Lab and Livermore Lab will be locked in a fierce struggle for dominance of the pacific northwest for many years, finally ending when Livermore takes to the sea, gorging itself on the many bountiful research parks located along the coastal regions of china and south-east Asia. Los Alamos Lab will migrate yearly between Wyoming and northern Canada following herds of traveling Uranium deposits, its primary source of food, while other labs will have disappeared completely, believed to have made their final journey to a national laboratory graveyard somewhere in the Sierra Madre, although no living person has ever laid eyes upon it.
From: Lynn Yarris
Date: Aug 11, 2006 11:03 AM
Subject: Re: Year 2031 Lab Prediction
Patrick,
Interesting prediction but it begs the question: How will this affect my
retirement check? Thanks!
Lynn