date: 2022-07-08
subject: No More Short Stator

No More Short Stator - 2022-07-08 - TOGoS's Journal

A movie was being filmed nearby. One scene used a little section of a cornfield. It was funny when they showed us the place where that had been filmed, because it was just a goofy little overgrown patch just off the highway with some electrical lines behind it. But the shot was down close to the ground, focused on some bunches of plants, so none of that mattered.

Some pilot was telling me that he really liked the new engines on his planes. The old ones had this point in the cycle where part of the stator (these were electric planes, I guess) had to be a bit shorter than the others, and you could feel as the rotor passed by that point, especially at low speeds. But in new models they had figured out how to redesign things so they could all be the same. These stators were like a bunch of truncated pie slice-shaped gym mats, and the rotor was a flat thing that traversed a narrow space just above (or below, or both) the stators. Those gym mat stators were also somehow part of the passenger section of the plane. If you sat in a certain section, you were over the short stator. Maybe as you walked over, the floor felt different. Usually Geordi sat in that spot.

I had a date, I guess, and we were going to get food. There were a couple of different restaurants connected together. The first one was the larger of the two, and sort of wrapped around the smaller one. It didn't have food I wanted to eat, so I got some curry thing at the second. My date walked back to the first to find her own food. Then the entire first restaurant 'dimensionally collapsed diagonally', leaving me in a room with bright blue nothingness where the other restaurant had been. My left hand had been leaning against a wall that was beyond that boundary, and the blue boundary was forgiving enough to let me pull my hand in.