The 50,000 year old man

Since the story finally leaked to the public, I can tell what the big mystery was all about. UNSA needed the T-scope to look at the extremely fragile body and possessions of a man that had been found on the lunar surface. The first thought was that someone had lost a astronaut and not reported it. So my suspicion about a murder started to look promising. However, our original assumptions were turned for a loop when carbon dating showed that the body was approximately 50,000 years old. If it was a murder, then the murderer will never be found. For now there's plenty of other mysteries to keep a rather large team of scientists busy for the next few years. For instances, who developed space travel to the moon 50,000 years ago? Also, many of Charlie's (that's our nickname for him) tools, although familiar, have subtle differences from similar common tools. As more details are released and as I have time, I'll try to post some of the more interesting findings.

Still no answers, just more questions

We arrived in Portland at IDCC and within 25 minutes we were having a meeting with Felix Borlan, but still no real answers as to why the staff and T-scope prototype have been uprooted and transferred to the states. We did learn that the installation team and T-scope were rerouted to Houston and that we'll be following them later this week. We do know who made the request, UNSA, (United Nations Space Arm) one of IDCC's biggest customers. The only clues that Felix could offer as to why they want the T-scope were from the questions that the contact from UNSA (a friend of Felixs) had asked, like could the scope image the pages of a book without opening it and could it look inside a body. This is sounding more like one of my murder mystery novels than a possible application of the nucleonics based T-scope. Rob and I are sticking around here until the scope setup is complete in Houston, should be the end of the week, then we'll fly down to do the final checks and hopefully get to the bottom of this situation.

Short layover

We (Rob Gray, Metadyne's chief of Experimental Engineering and I were on the same flight) just got into San Francisco Int. airport and we're waiting for a rental aircar to go through final prep, before heading on to Portland. Neither of us has figured out why IDCC wants the entire team and T-scope transplanted to the States. Worst case is some kind of hostile take over bid, but I have too much respect for Sir Francis than to think he would pull a stunt like that. Rob suggested it was for some "Super-Demo" or a crash training course, but we agreed it make more sense to fly the Yanks over to Reading, than uproot the entire project by moving lock, stock and barrel here? It's a puzzle, but hopefully I'm just a few hours from getting the answers. Looks like our Mercury III is ready, it's off to Portland and the answers, I hope.

Trimagniscope

My flight is delayed, so here's a little background on the Trimagniscope. The idea for the T-scope was a consequence of a two-year investigation, on my part, into certain aspects of neutrino physics. A neutrino beam that passed through a solid object undergoes certain interactions in the close vicinity of atomic nuclei, which produces measurable changes in the transmitted output. By progressively scanning an object with a trio of synchronized, intersecting beams, I devised a method of extracting enough information to generate a 3-D color hologram, visually indistinguishable from the original solid. Moreover, since the beams scanned right through, it was almost as easy to conjure up views of the inside as of the out. These capabilities, combined with that of high-power magnification that was also inherent in the method, yielded possibilities not even remotely approached by anything else on the market. From quantitative cell metabolism and bionics, through neurosurgery, metallurgy, crystallography, and molecular electronics, to engineering inspection and quality control, the applications should be endless.

I just got a call, that we're being transferred to another airline, so I have to run to another gate, more on this topic later.

Bloody Hell!

Forsyth-Scott, Managing Director at Metadyne replayed the video call form Borlan for me yesterday afternoon. I still don't have any details as to why, and neither did Forsyth-Scott, but when Borlan (President of IDCC) requests something, he gets it, no matter the impact to the production and marketing schedules. I have the team packing the prototype Trimagniscope for shipment. I have to go along with it, as well as my team, to assist in getting it up and running as soon as possible. Reservations on the next flight to Portland have already been made for me, so it looks like I'll have to continue this from a Wi-Fi hotspot somewhere en route.

Almost there

All of the legal aspects for patenting the Trimagniscope have finally been cleared up. The last of the non-disclosure demos were completed a few weeks ago. We should be ready to go into full production in about a month, if nothing comes up to take me away from my work. I'm just tidying up a few loose ends today, like responding to a rather cryptic message from Felix Borlan of IDCC. It has to be a joke, he wants the only prototype of the Trimagniscope shipped to the US.