The next is a visit to a domed complex ofīuilding, a settlement on Mars 300 years from now. Next is a time jump to New York in 1910, you can see the steamshipsĪrriving in the harbor belching black smoke and immigrants swarming into Ellisįollow, one 60 years hence to a city of glass and spires with busy traffic on Then below you can see thousands of laborers hauling stones and pyramidsĪnd temples in various stages of construction. Minutes of this scenery it is time to time-jump again. The different genre of dinosaurs and describes the habitat they are Dinosaurs of various sizes are grazing along Hiss followed by strobe lights and a series of lurches as the ship levelsĪnd you can see the ship is traveling above a fertile valley at perhaps 400įeet and threads along a river. Lights go out inside the ship, there is a In the mid-Jurassic period, 150 million years ago. The pilot has set the jump to take them to Nebraska The pilot announces they are going to make Of course the lurches, vibration and tilts are done by the hydraulicsĪnd everything seen is videos, but the illusion is first-class. Soon the blue of the atmosphere fades to theĭark of outer space and the rockets kick out. There is another lurch, a hiss and a roar and they are space-boundįeeling the vibrations of the propelling rockets. Rises and they are pushed back in their sets. Out the windows and feeling the vibrations they see their ship is moving down a Actually everything they see outside the ship is on video screens.įamily and a few other passengers are seated and buckled in, the door clanks Launching deck with technicians fussing about. Which is like a short squat plane sitting about 40 people in 8 rows of airplaneĪnd big portholes along the side facing out to what looks like an elaborate Tickets at the kiosk and are quickly routed to the inside of the spaceship, Lets do this ride, pleeze” and it does not take long Jeremy turns on his begging mode “ Pleeze daddy At $5 each ticket it smells like a rip-off to Vitorrio, but everythingĮlse on the midway smells that way too. On the outside it looks like a small windowless spaceship on hefty SPACE SHIP - TRAVEL TO THE PAST AND FUTURE. Passing the Tilt-a-Whirl and the DaredevilĬycle Dome they hear the fair’s loudspeakers announcing TONIGHT, AT THE STANDS, Of Hogs to the 4H Building and finally onto the midway. Wife Nina and his two kids Jeremy 10 and Bridget 12 have wandered from the Hall My story is a science-based fantasy that imagines how a couple of possible end-of-world scenarios could come about. You can find out about the LHC and the concern about whether it will end the world by following this search. The LHC will be slowly phased into operation and the purportedly dangerous super-collision experiments will not happen for many months. Only one of the two future colliding beams will be turned on today and then a painstaking calibration process will be required. Actually, there should be no worry quite yet because there will be no particle collisions today. Most of these stories also mention how the LHC is possibly going to end the world today. According to Google this morning, the world's press features 2,887 news articles on the LHC. The initial phase of bringing the LHC into operation is scheduled to start today. Most everything I say about the ULTIMA supercollider in this story is also true for the LHC, except that ULTIMA is envisioned to be on a slightly grander scale. The LHC is a dual 17-mile vacuum-sealed atomic racetrack running under the Franco-Swiss border, an eight billion dollar 20-year project involving scientists from all over the world. This story, written six months ago, was inspired by construction of the world's ultimate atom smasher, the LHC supercollider.
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