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Spaceship, issue 10, October 1950
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PAGE TEN "If all connection with this superwachy planet were to be severed", he reasoned, "we might be able to break this time trap". The only remaining connection was the rocks which had been collected by the crew members. On the first April 13, they had been collected. On each successive April 12, they disappeared, only to be re-collected on April 13 following. The stones re-materialized on the millionth April 13. On the day before, it had been two million days since they had originally collected them, but they would not exist until the next day! On the millionth April 13, every crew-member, clad in a spacesuit, walked to the opened port windows and simultaneously cast their stones in the the void. Looking out, they saw 999,999 other Ronthe XVII's vanish completely. Then all hell broke out with the Autochron calendar. Red lights flashed, bells rang, a weird clicking was heard, and a number of fuses popped. When everything was restored, the date on the dials was May 18, 11283! A little paper-work appeared to reveal that 3 million days was some 8,200 years that the original crew had not lived wile shuttling around in time between April 11 and April 13 and backward again. When they returned to earth, in two years,would be the year 11285 A.D. there. Macintyre was 38 when he left Earth originally. When he returned he would be 8,261 years old. He had spent, however, 8,219 years of that span in "conscious suspended animation"...or rather, suspended tempral consciousness. On the way back to earth the men of the Ronthe XVII formulated an explanatory theory: the substance of the planet was temprally negative, therefore tending to reverse the time of the entire Cosmos, should it be present in sufficient quantities. The walls of a ship in space create an artificial cosmos directly governing only those within it. The ratio of bulk of the rocks to size of the ship was enough to reverse time in it. The other ships were produced by the necessary paradoxes which accompany limited time travel. After a year, they entered the Milky Way Galaxy, and Astrogator Johnson searched the heavens with his Visiplate for sign of our Solar System. Finally, patterned on the velvety black Visiplate, was a glip of light with 10 smaller spots around it. "However, this might not be our system", mused Captain Macintyre. So they scanned it more closely, until a smaller pip of light was seen circling the third planet and two circling the fourth. But when 11 satellites of the fifth planet and 9 of the sixth were counted, there was no doubt that his was their solar system. So they adjusted the course in relation to the Visiplate, and in two years hovered four miles above the earth of 11285 A.D. The scene below them was ghastly.
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PAGE TEN "If all connection with this superwachy planet were to be severed", he reasoned, "we might be able to break this time trap". The only remaining connection was the rocks which had been collected by the crew members. On the first April 13, they had been collected. On each successive April 12, they disappeared, only to be re-collected on April 13 following. The stones re-materialized on the millionth April 13. On the day before, it had been two million days since they had originally collected them, but they would not exist until the next day! On the millionth April 13, every crew-member, clad in a spacesuit, walked to the opened port windows and simultaneously cast their stones in the the void. Looking out, they saw 999,999 other Ronthe XVII's vanish completely. Then all hell broke out with the Autochron calendar. Red lights flashed, bells rang, a weird clicking was heard, and a number of fuses popped. When everything was restored, the date on the dials was May 18, 11283! A little paper-work appeared to reveal that 3 million days was some 8,200 years that the original crew had not lived wile shuttling around in time between April 11 and April 13 and backward again. When they returned to earth, in two years,would be the year 11285 A.D. there. Macintyre was 38 when he left Earth originally. When he returned he would be 8,261 years old. He had spent, however, 8,219 years of that span in "conscious suspended animation"...or rather, suspended tempral consciousness. On the way back to earth the men of the Ronthe XVII formulated an explanatory theory: the substance of the planet was temprally negative, therefore tending to reverse the time of the entire Cosmos, should it be present in sufficient quantities. The walls of a ship in space create an artificial cosmos directly governing only those within it. The ratio of bulk of the rocks to size of the ship was enough to reverse time in it. The other ships were produced by the necessary paradoxes which accompany limited time travel. After a year, they entered the Milky Way Galaxy, and Astrogator Johnson searched the heavens with his Visiplate for sign of our Solar System. Finally, patterned on the velvety black Visiplate, was a glip of light with 10 smaller spots around it. "However, this might not be our system", mused Captain Macintyre. So they scanned it more closely, until a smaller pip of light was seen circling the third planet and two circling the fourth. But when 11 satellites of the fifth planet and 9 of the sixth were counted, there was no doubt that his was their solar system. So they adjusted the course in relation to the Visiplate, and in two years hovered four miles above the earth of 11285 A.D. The scene below them was ghastly.
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