Journey
Copyright© 2015 by Old Man with a Pen
Chapter 9
Let's take 'er for a spin...
We visited ... but none of the planets had everything ... close but no cigar. The big ones were too big ... had too high a gravity ... or a myriad of other difficulties ... one even had too high a concentration of oxygen in the atmosphere.
The just right ones were occupied with some really close bipedal humanoid look-a-likes but there were politics or religion or ... well ... just plain or!
Too small ... weird ... even as much as a thousand miles ... a 23 hour day instead of 24 ... or 20 degrees tilt instead of 23 ... or ever a completely circular orbit just screwed up the works.
One would think ... in a universe of 100 billion galaxies with as few as 100 billion or as many as 700 billion stars that there would be SOMETHING ... ya know?
And there were several somethings ... about five and a half percent somethings ... but every single one of them had a disqualifier.
It gives one furiously to think!
Is Sol 3 unique?
Are We the chosen few?
Have we no where to go?
Is this the end?
Vee suggested the only alternative that had the least possibility of working.
"Nothing seems to fit. Let's build our own," she said.
She looked at each of us.
We all laughed...
nervously
... even Vee.
After the infinite pause, "Gods?" asked April.
"Slap your face, April!" said Vee. "We are not Gods ... we just need a home of our own. Got any better ideas? Hmmm?"
"Where would you put it?" asked Gary.
"Hells bells, Gary. I'm ideas ... you are the access man," She said. "How about the other side of the sun? 180 degrees ... they'd never notice."
"You mean?" April said.
"Hide it in plain sight."
Window Shopping for parts...
Well, what would you call looking through assorted space junk in the asteroid belt?
Since none of the planets we had explored had the proper ingredients necessary to support human ... as in homo sapiens ... human is a touchy term ... life, we had to window shop.
What we had to find was the minerals and gases from the periodic chart and 26 elements from that chart:
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