# an acronym for big science 'bs': to therefore consider big scientists as *cough* tellers of tall tales 'big scientist rnd zaibatsu' can also therefore indicate another near-future black / tech noir hypercorporation that dumps heavy data on heads from great existential heights is it a crime by sade now plays in the lab background example daily in-scene usage researcher x (amazed) check out how speeding midnight megacity lights reflect off ir onyx black 'azt3k' helmet when they're in hyperthrust mode - it's mega trippy researcher (y smiles and gently scoffs): oh please don't give us any of that 'big science' researcher x: seriously - look it's as though they're an elf-transforming biopsychedelic inner spaceman researcher y (curious): what you mean an interdimensional alien state of raw being visiting from andor to the near-future retro 80s researcher x (by now obviously winging it): yeah researcher y (suddenly philosophical): hmm you know we've never told anyone this (actually they're always telling people this - swanson) but we've felt for some time there's some nonthing weird-cool about the 80s which makes scientists delightfully tingly like we have to drop regular language and consider super mediated realty itself in newer stranger ways researcher x: nice - yet while such acronyms as 'bs' are unfortunate they're often not entirely unwarranted mind you big science seems no more or less a large data pile than anything else out here in the modem electronic noosphere see also: sturgeon's ninja claw it's not much of a recommendation yet bs is a potential irony gland reactivation acronym alerting researchers to the existence of inherent unintended incongruities accidents in laser paradise and rendering anomalies generally - especially in traditional mainstream underground scientific culture maybe 'big science' itself is the anomaly but in any case whether one digs seeks or smells the heavy fecund bs or not the idea is to re find one's center organically reconnect with living earth and positively diy with others - with style fellow big scientist ken mctenner interjects: yesterday we visited the world's largest single aperture telescope once used in the search for extraterrestrial life a massive radio telescope and big dish set in a jungle valley while skateboarding naked on it we saw rich pasture land and cattle grazing around the dish huge fungi grew on the dung or bs of such herbivores we were then struck by this amazing image a high tech instrument used by up tight pink-skinned scientists to study impossibly distant locations and objects an instrument that even looks like an inverted mushroom cap yet not a hundred feet from the main control booth is probably the exact nonthing they've been unconsciously looking for sacred alien trans arc mother planet earth; the truer entheogenic nature of nature as ufo - our realer collective re evolutionary inheritance // republic of bob