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gumnut-logic · 1 year

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The sensor buoy he threw off the side of their boat sunk into the depths somewhat and sharpened their sensory net to activity underwater including sounds and movement. The holographic interface threw up a three-dimensional display of the water under and around the boat up to a kilometre across.

The aquanaut placed the projector in the middle of the table. “Would you look at that.”

Vigil stared at the somewhat blurry dots and shapes moving across the display. “What?”

Gordon rolled his eyes and, reaching into the hologram, zoomed in on one spot teeming with dots of movement. The middle of the table was suddenly full of a school of large fish.

Virgil shifted back and he wasn’t the only one.

“A little warning next time, bro.” Alan was frowning at Gordon.

“Eh.” And no, their aquanaut did not care, his eyes latched on the fish. “A school of tuna, southern bluefin, in fact. Good to see, though they are at the edge of their range.” He grabbed his tablet and, while four other brothers stared at him, he entered some data, his eyes dancing between the two displays.

Virgil couldn’t help but smile. Scott caught his eye and did the same. Virgil’s smile became a grin.

Gordon didn’t notice. His fingers darted into the hologram again and minimised the tuna only to bring up another school of fish on the other side of the display. More notes were made on the tablet.

The silence around the table was profound. Even John had a small smile on his face as he watched Gordon.

A dark shape moved amongst the fish. It was much larger and it wasn’t until it slid into the centre of the school that it became clear exactly what it was.

“Wow.” Alan voiced the awe for all of them. Well, except Gordon who was still staring at the fish.

Virgil resisted the urge to reach out and touch the hologram of the shark cruising through scattering fish. He wasn’t sure what type it was, but it was big.

A moment later Gordon realised they were all staring. A glance at the shark and he punched at his tablet. “Bonus! She’s tagged!” Another stab or two. “Hilda? Oh my god, it’s Hilda.”

Hilda?

“Who’s Hilda?” Virgil asked the question, but Gordon was absorbed in what he was doing.

“I did not expect to find her this far south.”

“You know this shark?” Alan’s voice was small.

“What? Oh, yeah, Hilda likes to feed in our lagoon.”

“What?” Scott’s deeper voice cut through the stunned silence. “That shark was in our lagoon?”

Gordon blinked up at him. “Well, yeah, how do you think I tagged her? Been following her movements for the last two years. She loves some of the smaller fish that feed in the coral reefs. She can’t quite fit into all of them, but she enjoys herself in any case. Caught herself a couple of seabirds from the colony on Mateo a few months back. It was awesome.” Not once did his eyes leave the display and the shark swimming across their dinner table.

“I am never going swimming again.” Alan’s voice was tiny.

Gordon finally looked up and his eyebrows shot up. “Hey, she’s cool. You lot aren’t tasty enough anyway.”

Scott sighed and dropped his head into his hand. “Why do I bother?”

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#thunderbirds are go #thunderbirds #thunderbirds fanfiction #Gordon Tracy #science!gordon #nuttyfic reblog #First appearance of Hilda

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whatgaviiformes · 1 year

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Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Thunderbirds Are Go (Cartoon 2015) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Gordon Tracy, Scott Tracy, OC: Enki - Character Additional Tags: Dolphins, Alternate Universe, Protective Older Brothers, Kermadec AU, Science!Gordon Series: Part 5 of vox delphini, Part 12 of Kermadec AU Summary:

Takes place after "The Kermadec Whales" by Gumnut, exploring just how Scott handles hearing that three of his brothers have been able to hear dolphins the way Virgil hears the whales. Meanwhile, Gordon has his research - and his friendship - to protect. Kermadec -AUjacent.

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Tagging @tikatu because you mentioned it would be fun to explore, and it has been! And also @the-original-sineater, for prompting the same thing while I was finishing chapter 1. I see how it is. Y’all want some Scott. <3

And @gumnut-logic for being amazing and supportive of me playing in her universe. I’ve estimated this will be 3 chapters. I hope you enjoy part 1

#Gavii Scribit #Gordon Tracy #Scott Tracy #kermadec au-djacent #vox delphini #OC: Enki #Science!Gordon

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pareidoliaonthemove · 1 year

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Shark Safety DocuVid

I'm going to be honest with you, I have no idea where this story came from.

A co-worker sent me the image, you'll see below (originally published on canihascheezburger.com), and I was happily minding my own business, when I got ambushed by Gordon doing science.

So yeah, just remember, kids: sharks live in the ocean. You don't. Respect them. Respect their home.

“Shark Safety DocuVid”

[Video Starts]

[Gordon Tracy is reclining on a lounger beside a pool, in the background, part of a building can be seen.]

Gordon: Hello, World. Gordon Tracy here, coming to you from poolside at Tracy Island. Now, you all know that as part of International Rescue, I see a lot of death and injuries – not a cool part of the gig, to be honest. But, because I’m the aquanaut, I also see a lot of underwater life – and that is the cool part of the gig.

Now, I know we’ve all seen a lot of …

[air quotes]

Gordon: … “shark attacks” in the media recently, and I just wanted to remind you all that we’re just visiting their environment. It’s where they live. “Attack” is the wrong word to use. It implies that the shark means to do harm, that the shark wants to hurt people. Nothing could be further from the truth. Poor shark thinks people might be food, so take a bite to check out that hypothesis. Shark science, if you will.

Now, I know a lot of you have seen this meme going around:

[Screen changes to image of great white shark swimming in ocean. Text superimposed over the image reads: Why are you always blaming us for shark attacks? If a bucket of fried chicken came skateboarding through your living room, what would you do?]

Gordon: So, in the interests of human science, I thought I’d do a little experiment and share the results with you.

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[Text Card on Screen: Skateboarding Fried Chicken Test subject 1]

[High angle shot showing the Lounge in the Tracy Island Villa. Virgil Tracy is sitting at the piano, playing an involved piece of classical music. A skateboard bearing a large container filled with fried chicken trundles into view, passing by him. Virgil does a double take, but resumes playing as the skateboard trundles off the edge off the balcony.]

* * *

[Text Card on Screen: Skateboarding Fried Chicken Test subject 2]

[High angle shot showing the Lounge in the Tracy Island Villa. John Tracy is sitting at the desk, working. Skateboard bearing a large container filled with chicken trundles into view. John does a double take, and gets up to investigate, stumbling and bumping into the skateboard, spinning the container and chicken on the floor.]

* * *

[Text Card on Screen: Skateboarding Fried Chicken Test subject 3]

[High angle shot showing the Lounge in the Tracy Island Villa. Grandma Tracy is sitting in the lounge circle, watching TV soap opera on holovid. Skateboard bearing a large container filled with chicken trundles into view. Grandma does a double take, looks around, and gets up angrily, bearing down on something hidden outside the field of the camera.]

* * *

[Text Card on Screen: Skateboarding Fried Chicken Test subject 4]

[High angle shot showing the Lounge in the Tracy Island Villa. Alan Tracy is standing in the lounge circle, playing a VR reality game. Skateboard bearing a large container filled with chicken trundles into view. Alan continues playing, completely oblivious to what is happening around him.]

* * *

[Text Card on Screen: Skateboarding Fried Chicken Test subjects 5 & 6]

[High angle shot showing the Lounge in the Tracy Island Villa. Brains and MAX are standing by the desk, apparently waiting for someone to arrive. Skateboard bearing a large container filled with chicken trundles into view. Brains stares disconcerted at chicken, MAX intercepts chicken, and gently returns it on its original vector.]

* * *

[Text Card on Screen: Skateboarding Fried Chicken Test subject 7]

[High angle shot showing the Lounge in the Tracy Island Villa. Kayo is sitting in the lounge circle, reading. Skateboard bearing a large container filled with chicken trundles into view. Kayo considers chicken, scans room, and stalks off camera, apparently pursing someone running, judging by the sounds of rapid footsteps heard.]

* * *

[Text Card on Screen: Skateboarding Fried Chicken Test subject 8]

[High angle shot showing the Lounge in the Tracy Island Villa. Scott Tracy is sitting in at the desk, working on reports. Skateboard bearing a large container filled with chicken trundles into view. Scott considers chicken, scans room, and gets up to retrieve chicken; he again scans the room, picks up a piece of chicken, and sniffs it cautiously. After scanning the room again, he shrugs, takes a bite, and returns to desk with chicken.]

* * *

[Image returns to Gordon Tracy, poolside.]

Gordon: So there we have it, folks, out of eight ‘shark’ encounters our surfing chicken was completely ignored three times; accidentally bumped into once; ignored in favour of …

[air quotes]

Gordon: … “more suitable” prey, twice; relocated once; and attacked once. So, in summary I think you’re pretty safe from sharks in the water. Just remember if you see a shark, CALMLY remove yourself and others from the water. Don’t splash, don’t thrash, and don’t panic. Just calmly and slowly swim back in. And so, folks –

[A shadow falls over Gordon, and Scott Tracy steps into view. He is wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with the words “Danger: Killer Shark”, and is obviously very angry.]

Scott: Gordon, you wouldn’t happen to know exactly what. Happened. To. ALL. MY. SHIRTS.

Gordon: I gotta run. Peace out.

[Gordon moves to run as Scott moves in, upsetting the lounger Gordon was lying on, and knocking over the camera, which lies on its side, blocked by the lounger. The sounds of a struggle can be heard, culminating a massive splash.

The film ends.]

#thunderbirds #thunderbirds are go #thunderbirds fanfiction #fanfiction #science!gordon #shark #shark attack #marine safety #research #for the science

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the-meme-monarch · 4 months

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been rewatching hlvrai and drawing along :]

edit i fixed the last one (drew his gun on the wrong arm and it Ate At Me (yes i just flipped the drawing what are you a cop))

#the art gallery #hlvrai #blood #ask to tag #i really wanted the draw the first one just bc in the scene coomer is Standing on gordon’s chest/shoulders lookin down at him #and i thought that was a funny image #also it’s a little bit funny that the last time i drew the science team And Others i drew gordom with pupils #and then immediately dropped it when i started these #fun fact that was bc since i like to make their irises the color of their text #i decided gordon’s should just be the white shine #bc i already draw g-man with white irises and No Doubles #which technically i Should be drawing gman with black irises if I’m doing Text Color=Eye Color but i though the white eyes looked cool #maybe I’ll change that next time i draw him we’ll see

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bastardlybonkers · 2 months

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science rulez

#hlvrai #half live vr but the ai is self aware #dr coomer #bubby #uhh bubbys design is p inspired by alieryns design for him in their wanna kiss animatic #i just rlly love the way they drew him lol idk if its close enough that i gotta give credit to the inspo but it probably is so im doing it #tommy coolatta #hlvrai darnold #im working on a gordon rn but i wanna post him on his own #this was originally just gonna be a tommy page but then i drew coomer with a gun and i was like #guess i gotta draw the whole science team now

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leo-bandito · 15 days

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lineup fer an AU I've been slowly rotating in my head for a month or so.... sniles....

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ikiprian · 2 months

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Barbara Gordon's Coding & Computer Cram School is a popular YouTube series. Tucker Foley is a star student.

Barbara Gordon's Cram School posts free online courses for both coding and computer engineering. Think Crash Course in terms of entertainment, but college lecture in terms of depth. Hundreds of thousands of viewers flock to it— students who missed a class, people looking to add new skills to a resume, even simple hobbyists. It’s a project Barbara’s proud of.

Sometimes, when she wants to relax, she’ll even hop in the comments and spend an afternoon troubleshooting a viewer’s project with them.

User “Fryer-Tuck” has especially interesting ones. Barbara finds herself seeking out his comments, checking in on whatever this crazy kid is making next. An app for collecting GPS pings and assembling them on a map in real-time, an algorithm that connects geographic points to predict something’s movement taking a hundred other variables into account, simplified versions of incredibly complex homemade programs so they can run on incredibly limited CPU’s.

(Barbara wants to buy the kid a PC. It seems he’s got natural talent, but he keeps making reference to a PDA. Talk about 90’s! This guy’s hardware probably predates his birth.)

She chats with him more and more, switching to less public PM threads, and eventually, he opens up. His latest project, though, is not something Barbara has personal experience with.

FT: so if you found, hypothetically, a mysterious glowing substance that affects tech in weird and wacky ways that could totally have potential but might be vaguely sentient/otherworldly…. what would you do and how would you experiment with it. safely, of course. and hypothetically

BG: I’d make sure all my tests were in disposable devices and quarantined programs to keep it from infecting my important stuff. Dare I ask… how weird and wacky is it?

FT: uhhh. theoretically, a person composed of this substance once used it to enter a video game. like physical body, into the computer, onto the screen? moving around and talking and fighting enemies within the game?

FT: its been experimented with before, but not on any tech with a brain. just basic shields and blasters and stuff, its an energy source. also was put in a car once

FT: i wanna see how it affects software, yk? bc i already know it can. mess around and see how far i can push it

BG: […]

FT: … barbara?

BG: Sorry, thinking. Would you mind sharing more details? You said “blasters?”

Honestly. Kid genius with access to some truly wacky materials and even wackier weapons, she needs to start a file on him before he full sends to either hero or villain.

[OR: Tucker is a self-taught hacker, but if he were to credit a teacher, he'd name Barbara Gordon's Coding & Computer Cram School! He's even caught the attention of Dr. Gordon herself. She's full of sage advice, and with how she preaches the value of a good VPN, he's sure she's not pro-government. Maybe she'll help him as he studies the many applications of ecto-tech!]

#she does end up sending tucker a PC lol #and after she learns he has experience supporting a superhero team maybe pushes his name forward to WEs outreach program for r&d potentials #picks him up by the scruff and says MY coding buddy #also fun fact she had a phd in library science at one point. i like that about her i think we should talk about it a little more #also tucker was making a ghost reporting & tracking app for amity parkers #dpxdc #dcxdp #barbara gordon #tucker foley #prompt #kipwrite

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harmonytre · 2 months

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My favorite image from my recent HLVRAI 4th anniversary video! Other stills under the cut!

Video is located here!

#hlvrai #gordon feetman #science team #dr bubby #dr coomer #benrey #tommy coolatta #HarmonyTRE #HLVRAI 4th #personal fav

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your-fave-isdoomedbythenarrative · 5 months

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The Science Team from Half Life VR But the AI is Self-Aware are doomed by the narrative and trying to escape.

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melonsharks · 7 months

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half life vr but the ai are all women

#hlvrai #half life vr but the ai is self aware #benrey #gordon freeman hlvrai #hlvrai bubby #harold coomer #tommy coolatta #science team #gabuart #noen of this would have happened ifnthey were women #JUST KIDDING. yes it would jave.

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gumnut-logic · 1 year

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Gordon was in heaven.

Well, if heaven had this many starfish and in Gordon’s book, it definitely did. Clustered around the heat generating hydrothermal vents, the patches and swarms of specialised life down here were amazing to see. He had read several studies on the ecosystems of the Kermadec chain, but it was always a wonder to see them thriving like this in the darkness.

The caldera was massive. He knew the geological history of the Kermadec chain. They all did as Tracy Island was technically part of it. He knew it had a habit of exploding quite regularly and this caldera was no different, various child cones spewing forth hydrothermal concoctions. It had last blown up quite spectacularly over 6000 years ago, collapsing what used to be a much larger island into this undersea ring of vents.

The heat supported scores of mussels, farmed by starfish and the occasional white crab. He had done a lot of diving around Tracy Island, but that underseascape was considerably different. Higher water temperatures and a dead volcano produced a different ecosystem to what Macauley supported.

Four’s spots lit up the underwater mountain range, volcanic remnants were scattered across the sea floor. The sensor bank was closest to one of the dominant cones to the north-west of the island, placed there specifically to monitor the active spot. The moment he approached it, he knew exactly what the problem was.

“Thunderbird Four to Raoul.”

“Raoul receiving. Thunderfish, did you get your ‘bird out just for me? I thought you were on vacation.”

“Eh, I owe you one.” If he was honest, coasting about the waterline for a couple days without the facility to drop below it at will had left him a little longing for the depths. “I found your sensor problem.”

“Yeah, what do we have?”

“A brand new baby hydrothermal vent right on top of the sensor bank”

“Again? That’s the third this year.”

Gordon frowned. “This happens a lot?”

“You bet your ass it does. This whole bloody volcanic chain does what it bloody wants. Hell, Giggenbach just a little north-west of Macauley threw a fit just last year and dumped a pile of rubble on all our sensor equipment. I’m lucky Tracy Industries continues to provide me with new supplies or I would have had to close up shop years ago. The Kermadecs eat sensors for breakfast.”

“So, what did you want me to do?”

“You got one of those temporary seismic monitors?”

“Not on Four, but Two stocks vibration sensors.”

“Sensitive enough to catch a below 0.0001?”

“I’ll send you the specs. Virgil would be the one to confirm.”

“Really?”

“Be kind to him, Mel. He’s not at his best.”

“Would I do anything to hurt such a gorgeous man?”

“Mel.”

“Okay, okay, I’ll talk nice to the dark-haired hunk.”

“Mel.”

“What?”