Elderly rocket Finally, after much effort, the old man came to the terrace of the residence. The fine rain varnished the floor, the cry of a bird, emptying water from a drain, nothing was heard. Stood at the center of the large deck with eyes closed and mouth half open while maintaining a perfect stillness before taking off with thunderous noise into the sky, into infinity, into nothingness. This was the first case of elder certificate rocket.
- How old are you?
- Seventy-five
- Even Start hundred and twenty take-offs are not
- Taking off ... but where? - Asked the journalist in popular science
Supreme Professor Research Center and director of the laboratory Fantacientíficas Bio-HP-QTJ propellants, on the campus of the University Wasteland YALEVARD in Calitokio, and when the response delay is about to answer, listen to the "sssss" a take-off not far away. Nothing special, common one, a "5SS" of about three decibels. The fact changed his question to the interviewer
- And your old lady? Sorry, but I'm sure you understand the relevance of the question.
- About to retire, I will meet a hundred years too soon. As ... the take-offs, where they were off, I reply that to nowhere, no fate, rise up out of fuel as we know from long ago is the continent and content, all human matter, the itself to disintegrate in the infra-atomic limit, theoretically conjectured particles but that day could not be confirmed by any experiment. That is, it takes off into nothingness, or to what exists but still is unknown.
- And today supercarburante not know what is what makes a human being in a rocket?
- We are looking for biological agents, enzymes, microbial cells that can be used as catalysts. Ie, an energy source from the bacterial metabolism. In my opinion, long lost wandering the paths wrong.
- So for you what would be the path of the successes?
- In our research we found highly toxic isolated, and have a crucial role in facilitating the breaking of the hydrogen molecule. As you know the burning is a set of physical and chemical processes by which energy is released inside the fuel. The studies try to discover the way in which protons are after the break, which is different from that taken by electrons, and so we go years and years in a line of basic laboratory research in studies of structural and functional characterization of metalloenzymes. Thus we come to the wall.
- What wall?
- The insurmountable wall of bounds. At the border between knowledge and ignorance. We made some but do not know why. Scientific advances have enabled us to extend human life half a century. Formerly it was normal to disappear from this world to the seventies or eighties, at that age now still young, our bodies, our minds do not show depletion and decline. It went from six billion humans inhabiting the planet up to twelve thousand in just five decades. A pan-civilized world without war, with healthy habits, not just diseases and threats to the planet controlled, droughts, earthquakes, volcanoes, all planned well in advance. We have become a plague ...
The 140 decibels of a "8ff" interrupt the teacher. A ten seconds later, when the nearby off barely noticeable, the journalist who stared back at all this time says:
- like a cancer, GIST, the only cure.
- Something like that. How much and when the planet can support this metastasis, human spread has been humanized to the last grain of sand? Today we are ten billion and still declining, despegantes minimum age has dropped from 140 years to 120 and falling. Is the radiation that nature imposes on us the chemotherapy that will save the planet until it was free of malignant cells in the billions of vanities that reached immortality caress each believing the center of the universe, but, really, our whole is nothing more than a drop of water in some of the unfathomable cosmic seas of another universe.
Last night, their eyes cross the wide window to wander through the nearby city of Yorkin, capital of all the land fraterestados.
Like shooting stars, the old rocket disappear into the hills in incessant offs reflected in the windows of skyscrapers towering over a thousand feet high.
