Flash fiction biologSciFi "The Outpost"

The Gamer

     "The quantum dot is working," Suzi reports, even though inside her database, quantum dots are not working at all; not this morning. If only Suzi had run a few more tests and shown a little more interest up there in the lab with her photoluminescence enhancement terminal system(P.E.T.S.), her quantum dot lasers not only would work this morning, but would serve more purposes. They could serve as a silencer of genes, or of transcription factors; they could, by most scientific accounts, even become a surface plasmon interconnector enhancement system(S.P.I.E.S.). She probably stayed up all night and thought,"Why don't we just forget about these photoluminescence enhancer assays, quantum dots will do the trick." Instead she played games with her algorithms wondering if the enhancement assay would go at the 2nd power or would be better at the 4th. She's still up there gaming and wondering.
     Carter knows the answer to her dilemma.