# what so called big scientists think about 'the 80s' the heat is on by glen fry in a super garish hawaiian tshirt now plays in the lab background not only do specific cultural artefacts and aspects of the 80s exist that researchers of 'big science' unironically enjoy and delight in they also actively seek out what these 80's fragments and ir garish neon-tinged aesthetic represent in terms of dimensionally emergent near-future techno psychedelic hyperfuturism a liquid neon force field a heavy biopsychic charge-potential an alien strange attractor resonating with the collective imagination of advanced technological civilisation a higher dimensional shadow or symbolic fiction not what most researchers usually think of when they pretend to consider 'the 80s' yet the point is the possibility exists for becoming aware of other vital aspects of existence they thought they knew all along of course when asked about the 80's they parrot widespread capitalist truisms as they feel they must in order to fit in - quoting lists of ultra generic plastimedia consumer fetish objects like walkmans rubik's cubes gremlins or even rollerblades but something else is there nonetheless - shimmering at the surface a bright intense bioelectric field researchers can often see or rather feel it in that uncanny purple tinged electric blue light visible in certain 80's pop videos some nonthing wonderful hidden in plain sight specifically it's what big science researcher henry swanson terms the 'near-future retro 80s' cautiously dive in through the nearest available dimensional teleportal plasma pool today // republic of bob