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Category:
Science Fiction
Publisher: James W. Cotton
Type: Fiction
Pages: 134
Copyright: February 1, 2008
ISBN-13: 1434843351
Two scientists have the opportunity to travel back in time to the end of the Cretaceous and observe the meteor impact that brought an end to the dinosaurs. Unfortunately, they find themselves without a way back. The time travel affords them a strange side effect, though...one that allows them to live through the entire sixty three million years of history up to the present
Excerpt
In the moonlight they watched a small band of brontosaurs wander across an open fern covered meadow. They munched on the treetops around the side of the clearing, and a couple of them took moments from their munching to frolic and play with one another.
“Do you think they have any idea what’s about to happen to them?”
“It’s probably best that way.”
Soon, the sun went down, and night fell. The bright large object slowly coursed its way west and slightly southward.
As it grew larger and closer, sparks began to fly off of it as it struck the higher reaches of the atmosphere. As it streaked toward the southern horizon, another large chunk flew off of it and started to course westward. Both the large chunks sped across the sky, leaving an orange glow in their trace. Smaller sparks flew off, most of them dissipating as they strayed from the larger masses, but the large pieces soon were out of sight as they both arced over the horizon.
A few moments later, there was a large orange flash emitting from the distance horizon. It grew brighter and brighter, and soon, the whole entire southern sky was a bright wash of orange and red. Several small white hot objects began coursing through the skies, some of them streaking overhead. As the entire sky turned orange, it became warm, then unbelievably hot.
“I think it’s time to go in,” she said as she picked up the items she was sitting on and ran into the cave.
The ground began to tremble, and Dr. Johnson picked up his chair and notebook. “I think we can put that debate to rest.”
“Let’s just hope we’re doing the right thing.”
“Our ancestors hid underground during this time, I think,” he said. “This ought to be the safest place in town.”
They ran as fast as they could into the depth of the cave. Several times the trembling earth knocked them to their feet, but they managed to find safety into the chamber they had so diligently stocked and reinforced.
Larger chunks of rock, some from the meteors, and some from the debris kicked skyward from the impact, began to re-enter the atmosphere and strike the ground. They struck and stripped forests, they struck animals, and some even started fires. Dust and ash belched into the air, not only from Chixulub, but from a smaller impact farther out in the Pacific, about half way out to where the Hawaiian Islands would eventually form. The heat from the impact and from the exposed molten magma caused the oxygen and nitrogen in the air to react with the steam from the superheated seawater, and a caustic rain of Nitric Acid began to spread out from a ring-shaped area about a thousand miles from the impact, eventually spreading into one mega storm that covered virtually every inch of the planet. The entire world would be nothing more than fire and caustic rain for several weeks.
The Cretaceous Period ended at 1:47 a.m. on January 12, 63,123,566 B.C.E…
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