# surbase as shorthand credible secrete underground research basses although only pale damp firsties say incredible anymore as that's the most blindingly obvious deadpan nonthing about these virtual non spaces we pick up from the last thrilling lab episode where fellow student researchers were discussing the existential matters of the bright media day orloff: so researchers talk like this where you're from then swanson laughs awkwardly: um maybe we don't get out much orloff: hey we were recently digging that hyperkult underground late night pirate satellite 80's holo-tv series 'street hawk' swanson: what that zero degree cool hyperreal one with the lone crusader on an all-terrain attack motorcycle championing ir own guv-sponsored cowboy brand of auto-targeting laser justice orloff: yeah sounds like it - the one where in the opening credits they can be described as an ancient alien astronautic anthropologist from the near-future revisiting lost sectors of superfluid polyverse utilising certain highly experimental 80's psychoactive video compounds in order to study various interesting interstitial facets of the extreme off-limits electro world - that is 'this one' conceivably a form of xeno-mythological archaeoastronomy swanson: ah you mean a lower-dimensional shadow being cast into the radial present from a higher dimensional object in the 'near-future retro 80s' orloff: word sounds hot - you know when the main antihero goes into 'hyperthrust' mode swanson: what's that sounds bold and daring and a little bit like zx 84 'break / space' retro orloff: well it's as though they perform an intense 'electronic meditation' on and enter a dimensional teleportal into the 'near-future now' by travelling in speeds existentially far in excess of 300 metaphysical miles per hour swanson: cool-weird - then what orloff: then they 'hyperthrust' at night along these awesome empty megacity backstreets slick with toxic data-rain what happens is all the brilliant neon around them starts to reflect in the deep 'azt3k' onyx black mirrored hypersurface of ir inner spatial neuro-helmet this same image vision vibrates at the exact aum-hertz of biocosmic star love that dave pfloyd 420 themselves might have experienced swanson: what that sounds so repo-intense - so how does that particular nfr 80's electrovision make one feel orloff: we guess it's like all the unconscious collective hopes and dreams of an entire species is being expressed in a massively compressed moment far outside of regular campus time swanson: hey sounds profound even prophetic yet oddly familiar and resonant // republic of bob