Define Weather
72 degrees and sunny. It was always that way on the Axiom. 72 degrees and sunny. That was supposed to be the perfect weather. It was supposed to make the world that was the Axiom the perfect place to live. For most people, this plan was an incredible success
Captain McCrea looked out the window of his bridge into that world, and for the first time realized how boring it was.
"Rain," his computer had told him. "Also known as precipitation. A weather pattern during which droplets of water fall from clouds in the sky that they were formerly evaporated into." The definition was accompanied by several pictures, including a few with humans in them. Most of those humans seemed displeased by the rain, and he couldn't figure out why. The computer told him rain wasn't usually toxic when he asked if it was. What was the problem?
It got him looking at more types of weather. Snow, wind, hail, humid, the list went on and on. The more he learned about Earth, the more alien it felt to him, and yet the more fascinating it sounded. As he looked out that window, he imagined the Lido Deck experiencing different kinds of weather. He imagined their faces upon seeing something so peculiar. But McCrea, being the logical fellow he was, having never really imagined much before, and not knowing of any weather modification system aboard the Axiom, moved the setting of his imagination to a place where the odd conditions made sense. The only option was Earth.
The imagination is a great source of dreams. He looked over at his shelves, at the globe and model of the Axiom there, and it got him dreaming more.
So he went over and picked them up.
