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Copyright© 2019 by Old Man with a Pen
Chapter 2
So many possibilities. Where were the Austin’s in ... oh ... say... 1100 AD? Or, maybe... 1100BC? How about Three Hundred Fifteen Thousand years ago?
The Road to Homo Sapiens, is an illustration that presents 25 million years of human evolution. TIME LIFE commissioned the illustration in 1965 for Early Man, a coffee table magazine. 1950/1970 was a period for that kind of publication ... pseudo intelligence. Something to impress folks of like education, affluence and influence. Thirty something ... college educated and in debt to their brows ... suburbanites. They are neighbors ... because they want their children to marry into like families.
Three Hundred Fifteen Thousand years ago, (315,000 yo) plus or minus a few thousand, the Austin’s progenitors were in incubators. The word incubator doesn’t fit ... not really ... Stasis Chamber? Maybe. Resident in the mind of a Super Artificial Intelligence? Yeah ... that’s more like it.
Three Hundred Fifteen Thousand is an important number. Three Hundred Fifteen Thousand years ago is when homo sapiens appeared as a worldwide species.
Three Hundred Fifteen Thousand is when the object the Super Artificial Intelligence was aboard passed through the general vicinity of the nondescript nearby satellite of an nondescript ongoing nuclear reaction.
(Nondescript: never before seen by intelligence intelligent enough to know that particular spatial object had never been seen and named and recorded it.)
The Super Artificial Intelligence thought the resident thought was ready. The thought was pushed to the blue green satellite.
“This should be fun. If it doesn’t pan out ... the nuclear reaction will eventually wear out and that will be that.”
Three Hundred Fifteen Thousand years ago ... the thought ripped through the satellite ... the change had begun.
Some inhabitants were exposed to the thought. Others were sheltering out of the ... rain ... heat ... cold ... wind ... storm. For those out of shelter the thought did just that ... promoted thought ... a 680 cc brain expanded to 690. Not much ... but it set in motion a growth ... that however slow ... made Cradle 29 just a bit different.