Exploding Sun Page #6

Craig, where are you?

Why is Wincroft in charge?

Screw that. How are you doing?

Hanging in there. Barely.

How bout the thrusters?

Has the remote

protocol worked yet?

No. They're rerouting

the system manually.

Might be able to get

them started up yet.

Those cosmic rays

that fired our Clipper,

triggered a whole bunch of SEL.

You're kidding me.

A single event latch-ups? I mean c'mon.

That's incredibly rare. Are you sure?

That's why I'm telling you.

The scalar drive was engaged

when the SELs were triggered right?

Right.

Don't go anywhere.

I wish.

Well so far it appears that the

Roebling Clipper is not responding.

I repeat not responding...

C'mon Cheryl, give me something.

The President's watching

the news channels...

We're still transmitting the

remote sequence but...

the longer it fails to work the

less likely it is that is will work.

Well I hope that

someone does more than try.

Roger, how are you holding up?

How do you think I'm holding up?

Call me when you know more.

hard information all we

can do at this point is guess...

I think it's time

we bring Craig back in here.

What is he doing?

Joan. You better come.

This better be good.

What's going on?

He says that a girl is

hiding here in the camp.

Her name is Nourhan.

He wants to come in and look for her.

She's supposed to marry him.

Marry him? She's a kid.

Stay out of this please.

This camp is under the

proctection of International Treaties.

Tell him.

He's not a big fan of treaties.

I'm not a big fan of his timing.

Ah, does he have a picture of the girl?

Do you have a picture?

She's not here. Tell him.

He says that the girl

is Mehrzad's daughter.

Mehrzad himeself sent him to find her.

No.

You're not coming into this camp.

That was really stupid of me, wasn't it?

Yes.

Oh...

I'm sorry... I gave her away.

Ah, find Nourhan, ah...

keep her out of sight.

If the Roebling Clipper's

thrusters don't fire,

gravity will eventually pull

the ship directly into the sun.

They really only have

one chance at this.

And the real problem here is

no one fully knows what will happen

to the ship's scalar drive

if it impacts the sun.

Craig.

Why are you calculating

phased systems?

If I explained to you

I won't have time to finish.

So please just stop talking.

Denise?

Hold on.

Wait, I think we're getting something.

Try the thrusters.

No.

Try again.

Craig I need you to explain this to me.

Denise? Can you still hear me?

Go Craig.

You're talking to Denise?

Dr. Bakus?

I need you to confirm some

power cell settings for me.

I need you to hang up right now.

Forty seven, two,

ninety nine, six, thirteen...

Craig you've got to let me in.

what is going on?

And forty seven, two,

ninety nine, six and thirteen.

Those are correct.

Denise, do not...

Denise copy...

Do not fire the thrusters.

What?

You want me to let you in,

get me out of here,

we cannot fire that remote transmition.

What! Why?

They can't fire those thrusters.

Why?

Trust me.

Craig!

Yes.

Oh Balaban,

it look like you aren't just talk.

Don! Don!

Tell Fiona not to fire the thrusters.

Tell her now!

Why?

Easy, easy..

Because the cosmic ray that hit the ship

caused a bunch of

single event latch-ups.

That means the electronics,

they're stuck in the exact same state

that they were in when the ray hit.

Reggie, what was the last

confirmed settings of the drive?

One hundred and ninety

eight percent full forward.

Full forward one hundred

and ninety eight percent.

That's the state the drive's going to

be in when it comes back on line.

Stand by everyone.

Firing reverse thrusters.

Five percent power.

Let's slow this b*tch down and go home.

Roebling One this is Mission Control.

Do not fire the thrusters.

do not...

Scalar drive engaged

instead of thrusters!

Shut it down!

I can't! I can't!

Don? Don?

Roebling One, come in, come in!

Inco get em back!

I'm, eh, the channels are all blocked.

Well try harder!

Roebling One, please come in. Come in.

Oh God.

Fiona! Shut them down!

Engines are not responding,

Navigation seems frozen.

Too repeat, reports are now

coming in that the Roebling Clipper

is out of control once again.

I repeat the Roebling Clipper, out of...

Ma, are you there? Ma, can you hear me?

Ya. I'm here sweetheart. I'm here.

Good to hear your voice.

How are you over there?

Listen Ivan,

if you're still tracking the Clipper can

you relay her course of speed to us?

Yes. We still have her but

I'm not sure for how much longer.

We're sending telemetry to you now.

Roebling One respond.

Roebling One respond.

Denise? Fiona?

Cheryl, what the hell happened?

The scalar drive fired

instead of the thrusters.

We didn't anticipate it.

And what's being done to fix this?

Fiona?

Everyone is doing everything they can.

The minute we know

more I'll let you know.

I love you baby.

Everybody, out. Out!

Thank you, thank you.

What's going on? Are we slowing down?

No. No we've hit our top speed.

That's a good thing right?

I mean, if we can't go any faster,

that's good right?

How fast are we going?

Five thousand, five hundred

and eighty-eight miles per second.

Per second?

But you can turn us around right,

I mean you can shut the engines down!

Ah, I'm sorry.

What do you mean"sorry".

What does that mean?

We've almost re-established

contact with the Clipper.

Clipper's accelerated at three

percent the speed of light.

At that speed,

it will be close enough to the sun

to burn up in less than thirty minutes.

That's not even the worst of it.

The scalar drive is designed to

withstand intense heat,

so when the Clipper incinerates,

it's going to continue

on straight into the sun.

The scalar drive is a quantum device.

After impact it'll phase double

and multiply every solar anomily

we've been seeing.

You sure know a whole hell of

a lot about scalar mechanics

for an astronaut.

Is there anything we can do?

No. It's inevitable.

There's got to be something we can do.

No! It's over Don. Alright everybody!

This is officially over.

There's not going to be another

Shuttle Reliant for you Don.

Alright, what exactly is gonna happen?

The earth is gonna suffer through

a cocktail of solar events

like we've never felt before.

Starting with a cosmic ray burst.

Will it impact earth directly?

It doesn't really make a difference

if it impacts directly.

Even an indirect hit,

it's very bad news,

it's gonna take out

a chunk of the ozone layer,

expose us to direct solar radiation.

Following right on the heels of that,

will be a massive CME.

It's going to take out

all the electronics,

everything the cosmic

ray hasn't touched.

Throw one in for good measure,

constant static electrical storms.

It's going to blast us

back into prehistory.

I have to alert the the White House.

They need to get the word

out to other governments.

Inco? Can you patch everyone in

the Clipper through to people

they need to say goodbye to please?

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