Chaosbutterfly

So there I was, reading my book on the Fundamentals of String Theory when I dosed off for a nap during lunch at work in my cubical. As I sat there peaceably snoring away, I had this dream. I dreamed about flying high above the earth, watching particles fly past me from the sun. Neutrinos, the occasional alpha partical, scads of photons, electrons, and just about every tron you could think of. All of them blissfully flying in the sky. Most of them came from the sun, but many were carrying baggage that had addresses from all sorts of far away places and galaxies I had never heard of. I went to stop one and see where he was going, but suddenly I woke up.

And then it dawned on me, I knew the secret of faster than light travel.

So, after excitedly emailing my geeky friends about my discovery, I headed home and raided my box of spare parts in the closet. I had a collection of parts of dead computers dating back into the 80′s. It was just what I needed to build my FLT drive. I took the new FLT drive and I decided it was time to test it out. So I installed it into my new 2004 Saturn ION. It took me almost until morning to finish hooking it up. Tired, and still pretty much on an adrenaline high, I got in the car, put on my seat belt and turned the ignition key. The car started up just fine. I pulled out of the driveway and in the quiet of the morning, I engaged the drive. The car floated up quietly in the parking lot and I flipped the switch to ‘forward’. The light on the dash turned to read and the Earth sped past me below. I passed effortlessly through buildings and mountains not effecting them at all. So I pushed the 1995 vintage joystick and the car moved up into the sky.

At about the distance of maybe twice that of the Moon, I stopped and gazed over the beautiful spectacle of the Earth and Moon. They floated beautifully in the velvet background of stars before me. Moments later the Sun broke out of the limb of the Earth and I was inundated with Sol’s brilliance. I put on my sunglasses and pulled down the visor. Turned the wheel and headed out of the Solar system. I pulled up my laptop and pulled up my astronomy program. There it is! Sedna, just at the bottom of Taurus’s hooves. I shifted into high gear and after a nice good hour’s drive, I came upon a strange red object before me.

It seemed to sit static in the sky, dark and foreboding. Not really all that round, but it was large. Huge as a matter of fact. As I pulled in closer, and my headlights hit it, I realized it wasn’t a planet at all but a huge derelict spaceship. The thing had it’s own gravity it was so large and slowly it loomed below me. I drove around looking for a dock somewhere. When I found something that looked dock like I pulled and and parked. The door closed behind me and air rushed in to fill the dock. I stepped out of the car and walked around. The place was deserted, but the air was fresh. Strange little piles of dust lay everywhere. There were huge halls with beautiful carved strange statues of alien life forms from where was anyone’s guess. The light glowed a dim red as I walked down the corridors. I walked into a grand hall where I found a single stairway going up. I climbed and climbed and up into the bowels of the great ship I went. After a long agonizing trip past countless levels, I finally came to the top. It opened to a beautiful dome of glass and a bridge. The bridge had comfortable chairs and computer consoles all dark and lifeless. I walked up to what looked like the center chair and brushed off the little pile of dust and sat down. I rested my hands on the arm rests and the room burst into light. Computers buzzed and blinked, and the dome suddenly brightened with heads up displays. A single main screen opened and after some activity it stopped and the words, in English no doubt, popped up, “Enter destination”….