Monday, March 3, 2008

Space Camp

Lets discover an alternate timeline. Where we split off would be a question of debate. But I think for the sake of imagination we'll say the somewhere around the moon landing.
So we travel through space on our rocket. Its a pretty neat rocket. And relatively fun. Save for the 3 or more hours a day working out to keep our bone density up, combating the zero gravity. And the space walks above a ridiculously gigantic, not quite infinite, abyss. The constant research, and eating food as it flows past you. Also, and the best part, the sub atomic particles and individual elemental molecules shooting around leftover from the big bang (or big bounce) supernovas, and stars and exploding planets. Probably the back end of black-holes that are quite possibly from another dimension. Ah, and these particles are moving fast. They'll flow right through your body without much notice. Except if they hit your eye, in which case you'll see the explosion on your eye. Oh and the space debris, heaps and heaps of trash, left behind from other missions, dead satellites, meteorites etc. These things are floating around and a good rate of speed inside our orbit just ready and waiting to fuck your shit up.
Then, zim zam zazzle, we're on the moon. Yea you can prance around in the no gravity, not to high, or you will literally never be heard from again. We pick up a few rocks, and some sandy moon dust. They won't really say what else they did up there. Did you know that the russians were the first to put a fucking rover on the moon, and it was basically a tank? Anyway, where should we split our timeline off. How about right when we get back to the orbiter. Having brought our lander safely back from the surface, we dock and get ready to go home. We didn't know a fuel line was fucked, really we didn't. The thrusters gets hit, to much gas. But this is different. We would notice a definite instability in the actual air itself at this point. I say air loosely because, as I'm assuming we all know, there is no air in space, there is literally nothing. Well dark matter but we don't know what that is so fuck it. Almost like its ripping, or opening a hole. There's no choice were going right into it. It's not quite sure if we ripped the fabric ourselves, or there was already some kind of disturbance, but shits going wrong. We gotta wonder why shit went wrong. A simple explosion wouldn't tear the fabric of space. There was a freak accident and an atomic level, maybe.
You don't know what happened. You're out like a bad bulb. But you wake up and look around. You look at earth, hmm...looks a little hazy. You look at the moon. There's something down there. And it looks just like what you're in. But farther off is what appears to be a settlement. Humans have inhabited the moon. But we all knew this would happen. Didn't you? You can't connect to anyone via radio. Strange your radio doesn't even work. Why would it, you don't know what time your in, or if they even harness the same technology much less the same frequencies anymore. So you're fucked. But, no, you're in a theoretical wormhole my friend, like a train stopping at stations you're off again.
This time you wake up outside earth. But, that looks much to small for earth, in fact you can't even recognize any continents, or familiar weather patterns for that matter. Its a terraformed mars. Terraform? It's a process that takes roughly a century to a millennium depending on technology. Huge factories set up like humidifiers pump essential elements into the atmosphere. Over time creating oxygen, nitrogen, plants, liquid water, non-lethal weather patterns. And ultimately it would shove photosynthesis into a stable environment so it could take over for the factories. Though mars is a cold place. Farther from the sun, so at night it can get to 100 degrees below zero. Super duper fun. Ah yea and the polar caps there, thats water friends, meaning big possibility of life. Humans versus Marsans. Thats not a real word, but more confusing than martian. You can even see small cities when you look hard enough. And, you can't believe it but you see an ocean.
But only for a split second, cause you were pulled back into the wormhole. You stop briefly at another small planet. Its venus, halfway through being terraformed. You can only wonder how far into the future you really are. But a ship rushes passed you into the hole. And incredibly large ship. Hundreds of times the size of your oribter. You seem to be following it. To saturn. More specifically saturns moon titan. Why is the ship going down there? For the giant oceans of methane, ether and oils we use so sparingly. It's a private middle east in space. We humans sure do rock. Why not harvest another planets resources? Who's going to stop us? Were moving again.
This trip took quite a while. And you don't recognize a single terrestrial being. Not a one. But how could you? You're in space. You notice a planet below you, directly below you. It looks green, there seems to be water. But the atmosphere could be pure methane, or chlorine, or an undiscovered gas. To late you're trapped in its orbit. You're going down. And down, and down. You hit land. I hope you're all tingly, cause you're gonna die here. The sensors from your 1960's ship show sufficient oxygen level. You figure fuck it, we'll go anyway. Airs breathable, but humid. The land is thick with vegetation. You can hear insect like creatures. You've discovered alien life! But you're eaten. By a dinosaur. And that just goes to prove that dinosaurs are awesome. But you dreamt most of this because you surely would have either frozen out near saturn or burned up close to venus. Maybe you encountered a meteor, or a belt of meteors. But it's nice to think what could have happened.

1 comment:

Lucas said...

all good stories include dinosaurs. speaking of terraforming, did you hear that all we really have to do to make mars livable is pollute the fuck out of it? it'll be like planet industrialica.