Exploding Sun Page #9

Well guess what,

it doesn't work like that.

Life's a lot more complicated.

We're losing the space station.

Ivan?

Craig, my friend.

I am going to send you

the data I've collected,

but in case I run out of time

here is everything we know.

Our worst scenario is confirmed.

The intensity of the solar impact

on Earth will continue to grow.

Whatever satellites are

still operational will fail.

Whatever communications

you have will be shut down.

Our readings from up here show that

the sun is pouring out massive

amounts of subatomic particles

that will keep on striking the earth,

eventually sterilizing the planet.

How certain are

your readings Commander?

Ivan is a solar physicist, Don.

It is a mathematical certainty.

The earth can survive for

perhaps two more days. Maximum.

Ivan...

Don't be sorry for us up here...

I'm afraid to say..

we're the lucky ones. Good luck.

Go home.

Freddie! Have you seen Freddie?

Freddie!

Freddie!

Marta, Marta,

Freddie!

I found him a few blocks from here.

Never do that to me again, ok?

We have to stay together.

Listen, if there is

anything you need, you find me.

Thank you.

I know it's a hard time but,

Claire's calling for a town

meeting in the high school gym,

to go over the town's disaster plan.

I'm not up to that.

I know but you're

the only nurse in town.

Look it's important to be there

but I'm sure no one will

blame you if you stay home.

You want me to walk you

back so I can tell your mother?

No, no, I'll... I'll do that. Thank you.

Marta, I'm really sorry about Jose.

He was a good guy.

Thank you.

Hey look people,

we're going to go this way.

Son of a b*tch.

This is Roebling Spaceport

in Mountcastle, Virginia,

can anyone hear me?

I can hear you Reggie.

Go home man.

Go be with your family.

My family's in Portland.

Ya, so the chances of me getting

back there before, you know..

Slim.

Yeah, you know what though?

Ya know I am a nerd.

So if I'm going to go,

it's going to be with

a keyboard in my hand

There's nobody special you want

to spend the last few days with?

Yeah, yeah there is. Umm...

she's with someone else though.

What about you?

Same here.

I think it stopped

...Paul!

I think I broke my leg,

and might have busted a rib too.

I'll go get help.

Nourhan.

Are you okay?

I know we're missing something.

Like what?

I...

Craig, hey you're

the smartest guy I know.

What haven't we thought of?

You mean to stop the sun

from destroying us?

There's got to be something we can do.

It's the sun, Don..

It's a fusion furnace burning at

six thousand degrees Celsius

on it's surface,

its ninety-three million miles away.

No. There's nothing we can do.

I won't except that.

The sun doesn't seem to care.

I'm not ready to give up yet.

You can't "hero" us

out of this situation, Don.

Cheryl, where are you going?

I don't know,

but I'm not going to

spend what little time

I have left in this building.

Jesus Don, take her away.

If you don't... I will.

Ya I guess you're right.

Let's ah.. see if we

can find a car that works.

Try to get back home

to Silver Spring huh?

Thank you.

Craig come with us.

You guys should be alone.

Just go ahead.

Huh, Cheryl's right Craig Come on,

come with us.

There's too much history between us.

We use to be like a family.

A dysfunctional family,

but still a family.

Ya, thanks anyway.

You guys go and us get out of here.

I'll wait it out here.

Alright, well you uh...

Take care of yourself then.

Ya, you too.

It was a helluva ride brother.

Ya well, it wasn't boring,

I'll give it that.

Maybe one day you'll explain

to me how I lost you

One day you'll have to explain

to me how you let me go.

Wait...

here.

I remember this picture.

Yeah,

take it,

good luck.

Mr. President, over here.

Honey, are you okay? Huh?

Shh. It's okay, it's okay honey.

We're going to be fine. Look at me.

Lara we're going to be fine, okay?

Daddy, what's happening outside...

would it have happened anyway?

I mean, even if mom wasn't on that ship?

Yes honey, yes.

Daddy... what happened to mom,

it's not your fault.

I'm sorry I said it was.

I know.

I'm supposed to be the most

powerful man in the world.

Good joke huh?

Wait a minute!

Don! Don!

You never told me

why NASA wanted you here today.

Why you know so much

about scalar drive technology.

NASA's got their own scalar drive,

don't they?

They took your plans and modified them.

They had Roebling over clock

the scalar on the Clipper

as an experiment.

NASA wanted to see if they could

increase the energy output.

Roebling knew about it and approved it?

Yeah, but I didn't.

You knew NASA took Craig's plans

and didn't stop them?

I objected but they did it anyway.

Why is this important right now?

Because the solar mess that's

killing the earth was caused

by a scalar drive

impacting the sun's surface.

Scalar power is phased. It's polarized,

and do you know how to

turn a scalar drive off?

You flip its polarity,

you just cancel its phase down to zero.

Now, the scalar drive that impacted

on the sun's surface, its phased on...

the sun doesn't have the ability

on its own to flip polarity

to cancel it out.

But another scalar drive

impacted the sun would.

Bingo!

I'm very attracted to you right now.

That's exactly right.

We've only got two days.

It's impossible to get NASA's

scalar drive to the sun in time.

Not necessarily.

How are things?

Any success raising anyone?

Mr. President,

can I speak to you in private?

Why don't you say it here, Roger?

Thomas, please.

I'll make it easy for you.

I do not accept your invoking of

the Presidential Succession Act.

Now today was a difficult day,

not just for me but

for the entire world,

and we have more hard days

ahead of us. But I will lead.

I have a duty to protect our country.

As do I.

So the Air Force stole my design

and built their own Clipper?

Roebling had to vet your plan with

NASA, that was part of his deal.

The Air Force took the plans and

built their own experimental ship.

The X-57.

How close is it in

design to the Clipper?

It's similar.

They made some improvements.

Advanced propulsion, a solar

shield, hot-swappable pods.

And it has a scalar engine?

It uses nuclear pulse propulsion.

It will get us to the sun

in just under nine hours.

So where's the scalar drive?

It's in the cargo bay.

Why would they put

it in the cargo bay?

They weaponized it. It's a bomb.

Hold on a second,

did I miss something?

Somebody weaponized a scalar drive?

Shut up.

Okay, so where's the ship?

Hopper Air Force base.

How do we know it'll still fly?

The X-57 is EMP hardened.

So if we can get you to Hopper,

can you fly the thing?

Absolutely. I was lead test pilot.

She's only flown sub-orbital,

but she's ready.

It'll go into space.

The bigger problem is that Hopper

is two hundred miles from here.

Well you could take my car.

Roger,unless it's a classic

it's not likely to work.

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