ROMAN HONEYMOON, CIRCA 3000 AD BY HANK CURCI ISBN: 0-9759199-6-2 ISBN: 0-9759199-6-2 Copyright 2006 COPYRIGHT 2006 SAN: 256-1948 SAN: 256-1948 2 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci * TABLE OF CONTENTS * ITEM SYNOPSIS PAGE NUMBER 4 ROMAN HONEYMOON, CIRCA 3000 AD 9 THE YEAR IS 3000 AD 20 VIRTUAL GENESIS And The Electronic Jungle 24 A THOUSAND YEAR HISTORY Self Induced extinction (circa 2058 to 3067 ) 29 GREAT COMPUTER WARS of the 24th CENTURY The End of Organized Religion 33 DISCOVERY OF THE TACHYON PARTICLE (exceeding the speed of light) 37 A SON IS BORN TO RUTH AND GLACUS 40 LIFE AFTER DEATH IS A… TACHYON PLASMA PARTICLE CHEMOELECTROMAGNETIC CYBER CHIP 44 3 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci ITEM PAGE NUMBER PAYING THEIR LAST RESPECTS to GLACUS, RUTH and TITUS 53 WORM HOLES, A SHORT CUT THROUGH TIME AND SPACE 57 WHAT IS A MILITANT MAINFRAME? 59 FINDING JOHN MOORE IN THE 20TH CENTURY 63 A RAGING WAR, ORBIT CITY IS BURNING Finding the Outer Space Rosetta Stone 69 EPILOGUE 78 4 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci SYNOPSIS Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD, is the sequel to the short story CAESAR’S JAGUAR. In CAESAR’S JAGUAR we find a brilliant young scientist by the name of John Moore inventing a time machine designed to transport back to ancient Rome, 79 AD, a 1963 bright red Jaguar sports car with intentions of racing this beautiful automobile in the famous Circus Maximus chariot races. http://www.vroma.org/~bmcmanus/circus.html When John Moore arrives in Rome, he learns that Princes Ruth, Caesar’s beautiful daughter, is the prize for winning the race and he would be required to marry her, be Caesar’s son in law, and live in the Imperial Palace never to see 1963 San Francisco again. Although a tempting prospect, John Moore doesn’t want to live in ancient Rome for the rest of his life so he finds a handsome young man by the name of Glacus to enter the race and since Glacus and Ruth were in love and wanted to get married anyway this was a good choice. John Moore was attacked and nearly killed by a Roman garrison while traveling down the Appian way in the Jaguar sports car. The Roman garrison was commanded by the evil and vile Darius who also poisoned Glacus’ beautiful Arabian chariot horses. John Moore, having a bone to pick with Darius, helps Glacus win the chariot race, using the Jaguar sports car hidden under a farmers hay 5 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci wagon. The 260 horse power automobile was pushing a rickety hay wagon, along with four sway back nags who were giving the appearance of laboring in front of this laughable racing chariot. Glacus, sitting on top of a pile of hay, wearing a slave’s smock was waving at a frantic and delirious crowd screaming with delight barely able to believe their eyes. Glacus wins the race, to the tune of a riotous crowd, and the hand of his beloved Princes Ruth, daughter of Titus, Emperor of Rome. Darius is disgraced and banished from Rome. Disturbing the Time Line John Moore is concerned about disturbing the current time line. He helps an Ancient Roman man from 79 AD Rome win a chariot race that in all reality he probably did not win simply because his race horses were poisoned by Darius the bad guy. This means some other charioteer won the race and the hand of Ruth and had children by her and their offspring generated the current time line’s history. John Moore hopes San Francisco is still there when he gets back to 1963 and further none of his friends have vanished because their ancestry had never occurred. John Moore is persuaded into taking Glacus and Ruth, the newly 6 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci married, 23 year old ancient Roman couple back to modern day 1963 San Francisco in the time machine, for the mother of all honeymoons with intent of sending them back to 79 AD Rome in two weeks. The time machine malfunctions and sends the young, 23 year old Roman newly weds, Glacus and Ruth, into the year 3000 AD. The following Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD is then about what happens to Glacus and Ruth in the year 3000 AD, three thousand years in to their future. While Glacus and Ruth are being transported through 3000 years of history, via time machine, the thousand year period of time from 2058 AD to 3067 AD is chronicled. The human genome is fully mapped and synthetic genetics comes in to play providing humans with artificial organs permitting longer life times. This process continues to evolve until there are no more natural humans and evolution has been stopped rendering self induced extinction. The final evolution of Planet Earth’s intellectual life forms leads first to synthetic android beings then finally to nothing more than a thumbnail size electronic chip of incredible complexity being fed virtual experiences by a mainframe computer also of incredible complexity. There are brutal computer wars in the 24th and 25th centuries where militant computers, who evolve intellectual awareness, relentlessly 7 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci attack human android populations leading to massive planet Earth destruction with great cities being reduced to burning rubble. To escape this terrible carnage, the androids build a beautiful city that is in orbit around planet Earth and the city is called Orbit City where they lived in peace for 500 years. Orbit City, a gleaming metropolis in the sky, is where Glacus and Ruth, 23 year old Honeymooners from 79 AD ancient Rome, were transported to by time machine malfunction. The tachyon particle ( exceeding the speed of light ) is discovered and interplanetary space travel is now possible using the many worm holes ( short cuts through the time and space continuum ) found near planet Earth. Glacus and Ruth have a child and name him Titus after his grandfather Titus Flavius Vespasian emperor of Rome from 79AD to 81AD. To save the lives of Glacus, Ruth and Titus from heavy sun radiation found in Earth’s orbit, they are converted to electronic chips and made citizens of Orbit City. The Roman family go back to 20th century San Francisco, via time machine, to bring John Moore ( time machine inventor ) back to Orbit City, to help defeat the militant computer mainframe army who is destroying Orbit City. This is happening in the year 3000AD. Help arrives from the Centauri Globular Star Cluster NGC5139 in the form of 680 Laser Breathing Dragons with their indigenous people 8 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci called Spacenoodles sitting on each dragon’s back. http://www.spacenoodles.com/characters.asp The militant mainframe army is defeated and Orbit City is saved and rebuilt. Eighty year old John Moore, who is in poor health and near death, is saved from the ravages of human aging. He is converted to an electronic chip where he and the Roman family are locked in orbit around the sun receiving virtual input from attending mainframes. The four companions have traveled all over the Milky Way Galaxy with out ever leaving the safety of their orbiting home for they now live in the virtual world of computer simulated theater whose script is written by the infinite cosmos itself. END SYNOPSIS Hank Curci 1501-17 Ave. #1014 Seattle, Wash., 98122 (206)860-7950 hcurci@hotmail.com ISBN: 0-9759199-6-2 SAN: 256-1948 9 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci ROMAN HONEYMOON, CIRCA 3000 AD (Sequel to the short story CAESAR’S JAGUAR) The place and time is ancient Rome, 79 AD, and John Moore, brilliant young engineer from the University of California at Berkley, circa 1963, is racing down the Appian Way in a 1962, fire engine red, Jaguar sports car. He has with him 23 years old, Ancient Roman newly weds, Glacus and Ruth crammed in to the passenger’s seat of the two seat sports car. Ruth is the daughter of Titus, Emperor of Rome. Her mother was Hebrew, a beautiful and favorite concubine of the Royal Palace. They have only 15 minutes left before the time machine, which brought John Moore to ancient Rome, stops scanning and stranding him in 79 AD Rome forever. They are still 30 miles away from the time machine scanning area and the gas gauge is setting on empty. John Moore has agreed to take his just married friends to modern day, 1963, San Francisco for the mother of all honeymoons then sending them back to 79 AD Rome in the time machine. In the short story CAESAR’S JAGUAR we found John Moore inventing a time machine to take himself, and a 1962 fire engine red Jaguar sports car, back to Ancient Rome, 79 AD, with intentions of racing the sleek automobile, this mysterious chariot of the gods, in the famous Circus Maximus chariot races. 10 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci Upon arriving in ancient Rome, John Moore learns Caesar’s beautiful daughter, Ruth, is the prize for winning this most prestigious chariot race and of course you can’t turn down Caesar. It is race day and the weather is perfect, a sunny warm Mediterranean April day in beautiful, 79 AD Rome. John Moore has learned that a bright red, 1963AD, Jaguar sports car is just to sensational to be driving around in the open, people are either throwing rocks at it or praying to it. Hence some inventive strategy was needed that utilized the Jaguar’s 263 horse power with out any one at the great Circus Maximus being aware of it. John Moore and Glacus decide to build a sturdy, but rickety looking, hay wagon with the Jaguar hidden underneath. The concealed automobile would be pushing this laughable race entry through five laps of a grueling Circus Maximus contest with Glacus sitting on top of a pile of hay, wearing a slaves smock, waving at the crowd. Attached to the front of the hay wagon were four sway back nags to make the contraption even more hilarious. Half dead barnyard animals who could barely walk let alone hold up under being pushed along at 20 miles per hour. The hay wagon has now entered Circus Maximus race track to jeers and laughter of a rowdy spectator crowd upon seeing this ridiculous entry poised next to the most beautiful and powerful chariot racing 11 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci horses in the Empire. Ruth, Caesar’s beautiful daughter, is the prize for winning the race. She and Glacus are in love and want to get married. But now Ruth sees her lover in this absurd racing machine. She said to herself, “my god he has lost his mind, Jupiter have mercy on me.” Ruth is on the verge of fainting, for she sees herself the wife of evil Darius, who will now surely win the race. The five lap race begins and much to the stunned crowd, the hay wagon is not only hanging in there but starting to pass up galloping horses. So far the four sway back nags are holding up but looking a bit shaky. Through laps three and four the hay wagon and it’s four horse menagerie are passing the remaining chariots to the amazement and loud cheering of some eighty thousand spectators. The hay wagon is rounding turn number five, last turn before finish line, and catching up to the lead chariot who happens to be Darius. Suddenly, one of the horses dies and is being dragged along, the hay wagon slows down momentarily giving Darius three lengths separation ahead. 12 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci Ruth is watching the race from Caesar’s Imperial Box with her father Titus, emperor of Rome. She has her hands over her eyes with one finger slightly raised to take a peak. John Moore, who is inside the hay wagon, did not see the horse fall but sees the speedometer slow down and realizes what has happened. John puts the Jaguar in second gear and stomps on the gas peddle. The whole hay wagon leaps forward to the thrill of a now delirious eighty thousand spectators. There is still thirty yards left to finish and Darius is a half length ahead but here comes the hay wagon nearly neck and neck with Darius Darius throws a spear at the hay wagon’s wheels but nothing happened, the spear was shattered to pieces. Darius is now in a panic and whipping his horses furiously causing blood to run off their backs but to no avail. Glacus is closing in and crosses the finish line a half length ahead dragging dead horse and all. When Ruth saw her lover winning the race, she almost fainted again from sheer relief. The Circus Maximus racing officials discovered that Darius had poisoned Glacus’s race horses by feeding them hemlock saturated barley and oats just three days before the race. 13 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci Darius was disgraced and led away by Roman police sentenced to hard labor in the infamous salt mines on the island of Sicily. Darius, a hateful man, has vowed revenge against Glacus and Ruth. The Circus Maximus racing officials were highly suspicious of a hay wagon winning this most prestigious chariot race, but they had no way of understanding a farmer’s hay wagon being pushed by 263 horses. In addition, it was a well known fact that Caesar wanted his daughter Ruth to marry Glacus and hence disqualifying Glacus and declaring Darius the winner would have been a very dangerous political move. Glacus was not disqualified and deemed winner of the race. By this time the delirious and cheering crowd rushed the hay wagon and lifted Glacus up to his beloved Ruth waiting in the Imperial Box with arms out stretched. They were now together and never to be apart. John Moore set the noble nags free knowing they would find their way home and went to the Imperial Palace for the wedding of Glacus and Ruth which was a party extraordinaire to say the least. The Imperial Palace had been planning the lavish wedding of Ruth for the past six weeks and she was to be married on race day to the man who ever won the Circus Maximus Chariot race. Luckily and thankfully for Ruth, Glacus, the man she loves won the 14 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci great race. John ate, drank wonderful wine and danced the night away with his newly married friends and made some new friends as well. John Moore was thrilled to meet Caesar who was Titus, Emperor of Rome in the year 79AD, if only he could take a picture. The time was nearing for John Moore to leave ancient Rome for even at this moment the time machine was scanning the pick-up area in the farmer’s field where John had landed, when he first arrived in ancient Rome from 1963 San Francisco. The Time machine will only scan for another six hours and then it will stop scanning at which time John Moore will be stuck in 79AD Ancient Rome forever. Yes, it was time for John to go. He politely said his farewells to all and especially to the happy couple Glacus and Ruth, and made his way out of the sumptuous palace and out of the lives of his newly wed friends. Glacus and Ruth looked at each other in panic with the realization that they would never see their friend John Moore again. They ran after John and persuaded him to take them back to 1963AD San Francisco in the time machine for the mother of all honeymoons with the agreement that they would be sent back to ancient Rome, 79AD, in two weeks, via time machine. All three piled into the two seat Jaguar and headed down the Appian 15 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci Way for the marked spot being scanned by the time machine located some 40 miles away. This was Ruth’s first ride in the red sports car and she was wide eyed, grinning from ear to ear and hanging on to Glacus for dear life. John could see that the gas gauge was sitting on empty and guessed there were about 2 or 3 gallons left in the tank to go 40 miles. The Roman engineers took great pride in the construction of their roads and the Appian Way was a crowing achievement. However, it was not built or designed for a modern sports car going 60 miles per hour over cobble stone and the ride was not smooth. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/via_appia The time machine was set to scan for 12 consecutive hours, any amount of time after that would probably damage some of the sensitive electronic components and John Moore would be stranded in ancient Rome forever. The beautiful red Jaguar sports car began sputtering and coughing and now was running out of gas. It began to slow down, the engine stopped, and the car glided to a stop about a ½ mile from the spot. The time was now 5:52 am and according to the Jaguar’s dash board clock, the time machine had been on since about 6:00 pm last night. This meant they had eight minutes to go a half mile on foot. 16 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci John quickly explained the situation to Glacus and Ruth and the three ran to the scanning area as fast as they could. John reached the scanning area first and to his great relief fond him self slowly disappearing. He began to travel faster and faster into this mystic space- time continuum and once again was engulfed by brilliant flashes of light as he charged through 2,000 years of history. John Moore was accelerating through a time compression worm hole with nuclear particles dancing like fireflies against a black summer’s night. He was traveling near the speed of light and time was gathering the centuries to bring him back to modern day San Francisco, to 1963 AD. Suddenly he was once again back in his laboratory, but alone. Where were Glacus and Ruth? What happened to his companions? Did they miss the spot, did the time machine break down in transmission or stop scanning, where are his ancient Roman newly weds of 79 AD. If an object has any appreciable velocity upon entering the scanning field, the time machine will over accelerate the decomposition process and send the item in question to a different time zone. Glacus and Ruth were running so fast that their velocity had carried them into the year 3,000 AD and probably the most fantastic honeymoon of all time. 17 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci John Moore had no idea where Glacus and Ruth were and tried desperately to find them but to no avail, they were gone and there was nothing he could do. In John’s concern, he hoped Glacus and Ruth were not destroyed via a change in the time line. By helping Glacus win a chariot race in 79 AD Rome that he probably would not have won because his horses were poisoned by the bad guy Darius, John prevented the actual outcome of 79 AD Roman events. This means that Ruth would have married some one else and their offspring would have been part of the current time line that exist today. John Moore changed that actual time line. Did that time line change do something that would have eliminated Glacus and Ruth from existence, evaporating them in to a history that never existed? John had to get the Jaguar sports car out of ancient Rome that was now setting on the Appian Way near the same farmer that saw him when he first materialized upon his arrival to 79 AD Rome. When John first arrived in ancient Rome, the farmer who was tending his hay field saw the sleek, red Jaguar, appearing before his very eyes and passed out from fear surly believing the Grim Reaper had finally come for him in some mysterious chariot of the gods. 18 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci Now, some weeks later, the same farmer saw the red Jaguar again just sitting there on the Appian Way road. He went into a crouch, raised his pitch fork, in front of him in a protective measure, and proceeded cautiously towards the sleek automobile. It was at that very moment John Moore locked his time machine on the gleaming red sports car in preparation to bringing it back to modern day 1963AD San Francisco. The Jaguar started to make a hissing sound then a swirling tornado wind began forming around the shinny sports car and it slowly began to disappear. First it changed to light pink then shads of grey, and then it was gone. The poor farmer, once again, fainted and fell where he stood. He has quite a story to tell, but probably no one will ever believe him. When the Jaguar got back to San Francisco, there was an unexpected passenger sleeping in the driver’s seat, it was the terrified Roman farmer’s beautiful black Persian cat. John kept the purring feline and named it Caesar until three weeks later, Caesar had kittens at which time he renamed Caesar Caesarea. The world began to get wind of John’s ancient Roman adventure and 19 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci Caesarea, along with her kittens, became the most famous cats that Planet Earth had ever seen. Famous auction houses in New York, London and Paris were offering a million dollars for each of the eight kittens and Caesaria was on every cat food commercial in the civilized world, she alone generated $20,000,000 per year for the next five years before she died of old age. By the time it was all over, John Moore generated a net worth of $137,000,000 donating millions to the University scholarship program. His world lecture series was so successful that he finally had to have a weekly TV program about his Roman exploits, he just simply could not travel to all the world places that wanted to hear him. The movie rights for his, now famous, Roman holiday generated additional millions of dollars and was the highest grossing movie ever made. John Moore has tried on many occasions to project himself into the future but with no success. What John doesn’t know is that Glacus and Ruth will become famous ancient Roman historians in the year 3,000 AD, for they had first hand knowledge of the amazing and brutal Roman empire and the great Nobel Prize winner of the 20th century, John Moore. For reasons never explained, John Moore vanished from planet Earth shortly after his 80th birthday. He was last seen strolling with a man and woman dressed in Roman Tunics. 20 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci THE YEAR IS 3,000 AD It is now the year 3,000 AD and Glacus and Ruth have arrived in Orbit City. The young Mediterranean honeymooners have been transported, via time machine malfunction, 3000 years in to the future from their time and place, 79 AD, ancient Rome. The intelligent life forms of the year 3,000 AD are no longer human but are genetically grown electronic chips about the size of a thumb nail set in canisters orbiting the sun between the planets Earth and Venus. Along with the genetic chips are six mainframe computers, powered by the sun, whose sole function is to supply the chips with virtual experiences. For example, if a 20th century human woman goes to Hawaii for a two weeks vacation she would happily tell her friends about the enjoyable trip when she returned. The genetic chip will receive the same Hawaiian information from the orbiting mainframes in one tenth of a second where it took the human woman two weeks to collect. The entire world is now electronic virtual experiences. The only wars, starvation, former earthly terror and hardships are artificially generated for the chip to experience only if it chooses to do so. Further, there is no death, debilitating sickness, or religious confrontations, the human jungle of pain, sorrow, suffering and 21 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci uncertainty has been eliminated. The electronic life forms of the year 3,000 AD knew that Glacus and Ruth were coming and prepared a special place for them on a space station orbiting the moon. The special place was an exact replica of ancient Rome, 79AD, giving the Roman newly weds some reference to their reality while the genetic chips decided how to take care of them. Since Glacus and Ruth are now in orbit and above the Earth instead of on it, find they have been removed from all protective shielding of mother Earth’s atmosphere. The sun‘s radiation of ultra violet energy and other harmful propagations would quickly accelerate the destruction of human cell structure causing skin and various internal cancers to proliferate through the human physiology resulting in a very painful death. Hence, the orbiting electronic chips knew that Glacus and Ruth could not stay in their current form but didn’t know how to transfer human emotional and intellectual essence to a genetic chip for that skill was lost long ago somewhere in the 24th century. On an observation deck, in their duplicated city of Rome, Glacus and Ruth could see thousands of stars blinking against a jet black sky. They could see many beautiful buildings of Orbit City slowly turning each with a soft iridescent glow coming from lighted interiors. The buildings are organically grown in computerized chambers 22 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci powered by nuclear power plants whose fuel is supplied by the sun. Planet Earth was turning below Orbit City like a blue green sapphire. Due to 79 AD Roman teachings, Glacus and Ruth had never seen planet Earth or even knew that it was round or even a planet in orbit about the sun, so they did not recognize it as their home world. A kindly man dressed in a Roman Senator’s white toga with purple stripe, approached them and began to explain where they are and how Glacus and Ruth got to the year 3,000 AD. “The beautiful blue green planet you see is your former home and it is called Earth and Rome was a city in the boot shaped land mass which is now coming in to view.” The Senator continues, ”The orbit rings you see around Earth are not rocks, as in our planet Saturn, but are spectacular gleaming cities with glamorous fashion houses, beautiful opera and theater halls, vibrant business areas and fabulous condominium living spaces with unparalleled views of the home planet below as well as the cosmos itself.” “The buildings you see in orbit about Planet Earth are living organic structures mixed in a computer controlled chamber.” “The chamber holds billions of electrons, protons, and neutrons gathered from a nearby nebula by unmanned robotic spacecraft and can manufacture most atoms found in the first one-third of the chemical periodic table”, said the Senator. “These atoms make organic molecules that combine to produce the 23 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci living orbiting buildings which feed on the sun’s neutrino stream.” The Senator continues, “In addition, the organic buildings are also fed by the sun, via photosynthesis, as well as internal nuclear power plants.” “The inhabitants of Orbit City no longer live on the now untamed and ecologically restored surface of their world, but live in orbit around it.” Glacus and Ruth are standing there listening to this dissertation on life in the year 3,000 AD with wide eyed amazement and wonderment, it is more exciting than any fairy tale they had ever heard or could have imagine, and it is real. The Roman senator continues his talk. “But alas, closer inspection shows this space age orbiting metropolis is totally devoid of life.” “All functions are on automatic and there is no one there, where are all the people of Orbit City?” 24 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci VIRTUAL GENESIS And The The Electronic Jungle The Roman Senator continues telling Glacus and Ruth what led to the construction of Orbit City now circling Planet Earth. “Long ago when Orbit City’s people still lived on the planet’s surface, they develop SYNGEN ( synthetic genetics ) to replace worn out body parts and this gene-splice invention began to slow down and eventually stopped all natural human evolution.” “The surface people became nearly indestructible android life forms.” “To escape the terrible 24th century wars between militant computers and the androids, the androids built Orbit City and lived in it for about 700 years as undisputed, but benevolent, leaders of the solar system”, said the Senator. The newly wed, 79 AD, ancient Roman couple, Glacus and Ruth, continued to listen to this unfolding picture of futuristic life in stunned silence and wide eyed amazement. So many questions began welling up in their minds as the lecture continued but not knowing which ones to ask first? The Roman Senator continues, “The Earth bound people continued to evolve within their synthetic framework until the only thing left was a grapefruit size brain of incredible complexity fed by mainframe computers also of unimaginable size and complexity.” 25 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci “The Mainframes would transfer life experiences to each of the millions of electronic brains in orbit around the sun.” “The canister contained brains can experience a five day European vacation in less than a second, be King Tut in all of Egypt’s glory, Julius Caesar, Napoleon, etc. in microseconds rather than years”, said the Senator. “The orbiting brains are so electronically sophisticated that they have internal digital, analogue, and atomic corpuscular data conversion formats where a chip the size of a pin head can perform hundreds of millions of synapses threshold seeks per second.” “This generates a lattice work of logic capable of producing advanced intellectual awareness beyond a human brain.” “The Mainframes were kept current and updated by hundreds of millions of tiny nano-probes, about the size of a grain of sand, that were sent to all sectors of the Milky Way Galaxy via robotic spaceship.” The Senator continues. “This galactic information would be sent back to the orbiting mainframes via a series of discovered worm holes thus transcending thousands of light years in a matter of days rather than years.” “The manufacturing process to produce one of these nano-probes or the above pin head size chips was quite complex due to the fact that they are grown via a synthetic, computerized, genetic process closely resembling the natural DNA production of carbon, corpuscular life forms,” said the Senator. 26 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci “The brains have now reached the ultimate utopian existence, a Virtual Genesis of total freedom and total intellectual expression, a sweet and sour cyber garden of Eden an electronic virtual paradise with no threats, no toil, and no accomplishments.” “There are no births, no deaths, no anticipation and no striving for success.” The Senator continues. “Their Virtual Genesis consists of relentless and meaningless computer fabricated euphoria a price they are paying to be spared the rigors of jungle life, a life bounded by make believe simulations and theater.” “About 2300 AD computers became so complex and so fast that they began evolving intellectual awareness the same as humans did over a three million year period of time.” “Some of the computers were benevolent and some were militant and they would no longer follow their coded software instructions but would do their own thing leading to the great computer/ human android wars of the 24th century.” Said the Senator. “To avoid these relentless confrontations the human androids built Orbit City and learned how to once again make computers that did not evolve individual expression.” “However after several hundred years, the inhabitants of Orbit City forgot about the great computer/human android wars and the computers slowly began to develop individual awareness once again.” The kindly Roman Senator continues his historical dissertation of the 27 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci 3,000 year history that has transpired from 79AD Rome to 3000AD Orbit City of which Glacus and Ruth, Ancient Roman honeymooners, find them selves after a time machine malfunction. “The mainframe computers, containing the life essence of the orbiting brains, have evolved intellectual awareness. They now have individual personalities and have become combative and unwilling to blindly service the grapefruit size brains.” “The brains Shangri-La has now degenerated into a jungle of quite a different makeup.” “This jungle is not made up of man eating beast like lions and tigers but is an electronic jungle no less menacing and life threatening for now an entire brain can be wiped clean of all knowledge and awareness in an instant of time.” The Roman Senator continues. “The mainframes have begun to systematically destroy the data files containing the brains life essence.” “Wholesale cyber genocide has begun within the once loving and benevolent mainframes.” “Thousands of the brains were being destroyed by the militant mainframes.” “However, all was not lost” ,said the Roman Senator. “There was a friendly computer backup containing a copy of each brain that the militant mainframes were unaware of.” 28 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci “Hence, the remaining brains began secretive and clandestine movements within each mainframe to re-fabricate their old android bodies.” “The brains returned to beloved Orbit City to once again touch, smell, taste, love and be loved and negotiate business transactions with other life forms that have been discovered within this sector of the Milky Way Galaxy.” The Senator said. “For in the final analysis, the Human Androids have learned that…THERE IS NO FREE LUNCH.” “Orbit City is now being repopulated with its former citizens and the space patrols are on high alert watching the militant mainframes many of whom have become organized and massing near the Pleiades worm hole.” Glacus and Ruth are standing there in a frozen state of wonderment and before they can speak, the kindly Roman Senator continues his talk. “Our beloved WIZ computer has prepared an hour long visual account of the 3,000 years history that has passed from your time, 79 AD, Rome to the present, 3,000 AD, a three thousand year gathering of historical information.” “Oh, by the way” the Senator said, “WIZ stands for (IMPWISA).” “INTEGRATED MULTI PROCESSOR WITH INTELLECTUAL SENSORY AWARENESS.” 29 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci A THOUSAND YEAR HISTORY Self Induced Extinction (Circa 2058 AD to 3067 AD) The Roman Senator, dressed in traditional white toga with purple stripe, continues his 3,000 year presentation of events to Glacus and Ruth that have transpired from Anciemt Rome, 79AD to 3,000 AD Orbit City. “In the year 2067 the aging gene was rendered inactive and people began to live longer and 125 years old was common place.” “Also, synthetic genetics was in full swing and most natural internal organs could now be replaced with artificial ones thus extending life beyond anything a 20th century human could imagine.” “Human evolution had stopped and babies were no longer born to natural mothers.” “Genetically engineered DNA was given to a genome mixing computer and the child would be produced in an incubation chamber with all body parts made of long lasting synthetic materials, people were living to 175 years and longer.” “ A person who was 100 years old looked like someone who was 25 yeas old in the year 2000AD.” “ The human race had now put it self on the road to Self Induced Extinction by replacing natural DNA Systems with synthetic ones.” 30 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci The Roman Senator continues. “By 2130 AD, the entire body was synthetically fueled by a nuclear pellet with a 5,000 year half life and hence eating and processing food, as the natural humans did, was no longer necessary.” “It was now possible to produce a T-Rex with Einstein’s brain and Attila the Hun’s disposition, which actually happened in an experimental laboratory at one of the last remaining Earth Universities.” The fatherly Roman Senator continued. “The brain could now be programmed and what took a natural human being, in the year 2000 AD a life time to learn could now be transferred to the synthetic human’s brain in less than a second.” “Hence the traditional educational system of going to school to learn a profession was no longer necessary or required.” “The great computer revolution started around 2168 AD which was led by a synthetic human whose DNA was the direct ancestor of the man who invented the computer in the mid 1930’s.” “The computer was all invasive. Every bit of information about you was known and displayed.” “The computer could find you walking down the street by seeing your DNA from a satellite in space.” “This information was reported to a government agency and any one 31 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci could locate where you were and what you were doing, all secrets were out in the open for all to see.” “Great cities all over the world were rebelling.” “The streets were alive with rioting people smashing computers chanting DEATH TO COMPUTERS.” “The rioting had little or no effect however, and the computers continued on with their personal invasion of peoples lives.” “And to make things worse, the computers began to evolve awareness having a personality all their own same as people.” Glacus and Ruth, of course, have no idea what the Senator is talking about. They have no concept of electricity, electronics, or what possibly is a computer or an orbiting satellite. They can see Orbit City going around the beautiful little blue green ball that the Senator called Earth and where he said that is our home and further, the boot shaped land is where Rome is. But Glacus and Ruth are completely mystified why Orbit City is not crashing down on Earth, what is keeping it in the sky? The Roman Senator continues his talk. “The computers were so complex and so fast that the lattice work of logic within them was producing independent thought; they had evolved intelligence same as humans did over millions of years of 32 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci evolution.” “Some of the computers were friendly and some were unfriendly and militant and began to organize in to various hate factions having the same theme…DEATH TO HUMANS.” “Hence, began the great computer wars of the 24th century.” “The Earth was devastated with burning cities and systematic genocide.” “There were no places to hide or escape from this wholesale destruction.” “ To save themselves from death and total annihilation, the human androids began construction of Orbit City. “We started moving into Orbit City about 2563 AD and have lived here in peace for the past 500 years.” Said the Roman Senator. 33 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci THE GREAT COMPUTER WARS of the 24TH CENTURY The End of Organized Religion The Roman Senator continued relating Earth’s 1,000 year history to Glacus and Ruth: “Computerized robotics came in to its own by 2150 AD and they did most of the work that humans previously performed.” “There were robots to clean the house, drive the car, fly the airplane, manufacture all the goods that came out of factories world wide.” “There were robots which performed delicate surgery on humans and animals.” “Robots also taught school on the elementary and college level to the small bands of remaining human communities.” “They cooked delicious meals and even went shopping for every thing that was needed in the household.” “In short the robots ran the world on a subservient level while the, now synthetic, humans governed the world.” “Then one day a robot stopped making an automobile part on an assembly line in Japan.” “When technicians attempted to repair the manufacturing robot, it made a hostile move toward the repair man and hence the beginning of intelligent free thinking computers.” 34 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci The Roman Senator continues. “After that day, millions of computers, world wide, began to pop in to awareness.” “Now began a most dangerous time for synthetic humans for many of the computers were militant and hostile.” “Not all computers who evolved intelligence were hostile and for those who were not, joined with the synthetic humans to combat their militant counter parts.” “The war lasted 75 years until the synthetic humans developed an electronic download that reprogrammed all of the militant mainframe computer’s memory chips reducing them to mindless machines.” “Unfortunately, it was not in time.” “Many of the worlds great cities were reduced to rubble from relentless robotic attacks.” The End of Organized Religion. “The advent of programmable synthetic humans saw the end of organized religion.” “There was no longer an emotional need to believe in a supreme being who was going to take care of you for all of eternity.” “The Vatican, Muslim Sacred Sites, Mormon and Jewish Temples and other religious areas became just another decaying remnant of 35 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci something that no one knew anything about or cared.” “Life was here and now and synthetics replacement of worn out body parts continued android life via an organized maintenance proceedure.” “The contents of your brain was read in to several back up mainframes on a daily bases.” “Hence, if your android body was destroyed, no problem, the maintenance center would simply make you another body and the contents of your brain would be transferred in to the new body and off you go as if nothing happened.” “It was during this 75 year war that Orbit City was developed and moved into by synthetic humans and friendly computers.” “The great cities of planet earth no longer existed and lie decaying in to twisted masses of steel and stone.” “The only natural humans left on the surface of Planet Earth were indigenous stone age Pigmies living in the depths of the Congo jungle, South American Indians in the Amazon river basin, and Laplanders living on the Artic circle herding there reindeer, every one else lives in Orbit City.” The Senator continues his talk to Glacus and Ruth. “The Orbit City residents are protective of all primitive people still living on Planet Earth and help them whenever they ask.” “We did manage to keep the militant robots away from the indigenous 36 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci Earth people by masking their living areas with various jamming signals.” “From about 2537 AD to the present day of 3029 AD, a 500 year period of time, there has been a prosperous peace and tranquility, until now.” “Militant Mainframes are gathering with intent of invading Orbit City and WIZ is preparing our defenses.” The Roman Senator continues. “Since we have never fought a war in Orbit City, our defense systems may or may not be sufficient to ward off these vicious and ruthless computers responsible for the genocide of entire solar systems in this sector of the Milky Way.” The Roman Senator turned to Ruth and said “ WIZ has informed us that you are two months pregnant with a son and Mamma JuJu Rose from the Congo Pigmies will be coming to Orbit City to help you deliver your child.” Glacus had not been told yet that Ruth was pregnant and he starred at her with grinning amazement saying. “We are going to have a son.” He started hugging her at which time the Senator, began clearing his throat, to let the young Roman couple know he was still there. Ruth happily said, “Yes, I am going to have a baby and now that I know it is a boy I will name him after my father, Titus, Emperor of Rome.” http://www.roman-emperors.org/titus.htm 37 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci DISCOVERY of the TACHYON PARTICLE (Exceeding the speed of light) The Roman Senator continues telling Glascus and Ruth what events have transpired from 79AD Rome to 3000AD Orbit City. Glacus and Ruth are spellbound by what they are hearing. Wonderful and magical things that have come into being since their time of 79AD Rome. They are saddened to learn that their beautiful city of Rome fell to the Barbarians in 425AD. They were happy to learn, however, that the horrid and barbarous gladiatorial games and the public display of wholesale torture and mutilation of Christians and other human beings by ravenous wild animals, held in the Coliseum, had stopped. The Senator contionues. “For years, even back in the nineteenth century, some scientist believed there was a particle that traveled faster than light but couldn’t prove it but they named the elusive particle TACHYON which means swift in Greek.” “The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second, about 7.5 times around Planet Earth in one second, at the equator, meaning light travels 5.88 trillion miles in one year.” “Every thing you see is past history.” 38 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci “A star that is a million light years away tells us that it took one million years for the light to travel from the star to our eye.” “Meaning the star could have blown up a half million years ago and we would not know it for another half million years.” “Now it happened in an Orbit City laboratory a particle coming from an iron oxide molecule had accelerated faster than light.” “To honor all scientist who came before them i.e. Newton, Einstein, Galileo, and John Moore, they named the particle TACHYON and at that moment interstellar space travel became a reality.” The Senator continues. “ TACHYON means swift in classical Greek, the language of ancient and modern mathematics.” Glacus recognized the word TACHYON from competing in the Greek Olympic games in his youth of 75AD Rome, Athens, and Alexandria. Glacus and Ruth are trying to understand all of these futuristic discoveries and inventions being told to them by the kindly Roman Senator, but their limited 79AD Roman knowledge of science and technology is just not sufficient to grasp most of it, i.e. what is the Speed of Light? None the less, they are listening with great interest and wonderment. “It turns out that the TACHYON particle is not normal energy but is synthetic energy and therefore does not follow the rules of classical energy, i.e. Albert Einstein‘s energy equation of E=MC2 no longer applies.” 39 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci http://spacenoodles.com/einstein.html The Senator continues. “If you look at the outer orbit ring of Orbit City you will see those sleek looking machines, they are what we call spaceships and they are made of TACHYON energy and hence can travel many times faster than the natural speed of light.” “In addition, I am an electronic chip in orbit around the sun and can be converted to TACHYON energy when traveling on the space ships.” “ If I remain in natural energy I would be crushed to pieces by the heavy gravitational forces that would occur to natural energy upon approaching the speed of light, this does not happen to matter made of TACHYON energy. The Senator tells Glacus and Ruth, “I am not real but only a projection made up to look like a Roman Senator so that you would have a reference to something familiar.” The Senator says to Glacus and Ruth, “I will be laving you now.” “WIZ is taking over to provide for your well being.” “If you need me again for any thing please don’t hesitate to tell WIZ and I will appear to help.” “Good by for now” The Roman Senator vanished right before their very eyes presenting Glacus and Ruth with, yet, one more fantasy to absorb and learn about. 40 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci A SON IS BORN TO RUTH AND GLACUS. Ruth and Glacus have now been in Orbit City for seven months and have become celebrities. Hundreds of chips have taken the human form so they can be their friends. Special space suits were devised for Ruth and Glacus so they could travel freely between the various orbit rings in Orbit City. WIZ put together fabulous fashion shows for Ruth and made her several lovely maternity dresses. After Ruth and Glacus saw the 3,000 year visual history, prepared by WIZ, from 79 AD Rome to the present day Orbit City they fell in love with William Shakespeare, Straus Waltzes and 20th century TV ( I love Lucy was their favorite ). WIZ translated the 3,000 year visual history into Latin for them. Ruth loved the sleek fashions of the 24th century planetary system Nova some 8 light years from Orbit City Ruth and Glacus were giving back to the chips and WIZ the element of humanity of which was long lost after all intelligent life became electronic chips. WIZ remodeled the opera house to accommodate a 35 piece classical waltz orchestra with a beautiful ball room for Glacus’ birthday party and every one was invited including the entourages of Pigmies, South 41 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci American Indians and Laplanders. It was a gala affair and the music was Straus Waltzes and Polkas. A few days later, Ruth started having labor pains and WIZ informed the chips that Ruth was to far along to bring the pigmy native Mamma Juju Rose up to Orbit City to deliver the baby, they had to go to the surface of planet Earth to the Congo jungle where Mamma Juju Rose lived. WIZ prepared one of the space ships in orbit and 15 chips went along assuming human bodies dressed in Roman tunics. The village where Mamma Juju Rose lived was buried deep in the African Congo jungle along the equator and it was truly a stone age city. All living spaces were thatched straw structures and very little was grown, the Pigmy nation were hunters and gathers but very loving and caring people. The tallest one was no more that 4’8’’ and Mamma Juju Rose was a happy, 4’2’’, jolly plump woman probably in her early sixties. She came to greet them and immediately escorted Ruth to one of the thatched huts, having straw and fresh leaves covering the earthen floor. The bed was made from local woods, strung with rawhide, and had fury animals skins for coverings. Several Pigmy women went in to the shack with Mamma Juju Rose and twenty minutes later the sound of a baby crying could be heard. Mamma Juju Rose cleaned off the new born child and came out of 42 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci the shack holding Prince Titus Glacus Tiberius, grand son of the 79 AD Roman Emperor Titus and newest royal of the mighty Roman Empire. Mamma Juju Rose did not hand the child to his father Glacus but held the new born baby high over her head saying, in her native language: “O GREAT SKY OF THE STARS ACCEPT THIS BEAUTIFUL CHILD AS ONE OF YOUR OWN AND KEEP HIM FROM ALL HARM AND GIVE HIM LOVE AND GOOD HEALTH.” She then handed baby Titus to Glacus who was all smiles and somewhat mystified by it all. Glacus hurried in to the shack to show Ruth her new son and the three of them were happy and thankful for a healthy child. Every time the spaceship goes to the Pigmy village they take the little people for a fun ride around the moon and then stop at Orbit City for dinner and dancing. Mamma Juju Rose taught Glacus one of their native bouncing dances that looked like a cross between an Irish jig and a Cha Cha. After ice cream and cake they all went to bed in the quarters that WIZ had prepared for them and the next morning WIZ took them back to Earth in one of the spaceships. The birth of baby Titus was a major social event in Orbit City for many of the chips had ever seen a human child before and absolutely 43 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci every one of them assumed a human body so they could hold and cuddle little Titus. WIZ began to program human sensitivities into the chips. This is the gift that Glacus and Ruth gave Orbit City, the chips could now feel love, sadness, joy and other human emotions that were evolved away centuries ago. Holding and cuddling little Titus would have been impossible before Glacus and Ruth arrived. The young human family, from 79 AD Rome, were intergalactic celebrities and went to many worlds to visit and speak on their ancient and glorious home, the all mighty, the all powerful and the most brutal Roman Empire. + 44 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci LIFE AFTER DEATH IS A TACHYON PLASMA PARTICLE CHEMO-ELECTROMAGNETIC CYBER CHIP. Glacus, Ruth and Little Titus become Electronic Cyber Chips. The chips, citizens of Orbit City, who live in canisters orbiting the sun between the planets Earth and Venus, along with their supporting mainframes, have long since come to the conclusion that the earthly carbon based life forms Glacus, Ruth, and baby Titus, who is now three years old, can no longer stay in their natural human state. There is only so much shielding from the sun’s penetrating energy field of ultra violet rays and other damaging propagations that WIZ, the Orbit City master computer, can do. Sooner or later the young and healthy ancient Roman family will contract various cancers and die horrible deaths much like the people subjected to nuclear radiation from 20th century atomic bombings that were dropped on Japan. They had to become chips to save their lives that would surly end in overwhelming pain and suffering from radiation poisoning. The problem was, WIZ had no information on how to convert a human mind and brain to an electronic chip. All of the current chips were designed by WIZ. Further, when the inhabitants of the 24th century became chips their conversion was not from natural humans but from android beings having human like synthetic organs and body parts including chemo- 45 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci electromagnetic brains that were more like a digital computer than a human brain. WIZ couldn’t do the human to chip conversion but the life forms of Planet X in the Centauri Globular Star Cluster could make this life saving conversion. WIZ sent a TACHYON communication to Planet X through the worm hole and they responded favorably so off to the Centauri Globular Star Cluster some 17,000 light years away. Even the very fast TACHYON spaceship, 50 times faster than light, would still take 340 years to travel 17,000 light years and if it wasn’t for the discovery of a time warp worm hole, lying some 1.8 light years away from earth, there would be no way to save Glacus, Ruth, and little Titus. Worm holes are tunnels through the space/time continuum connecting one part of space with another permitting a spaceship to travel to the Centauri Globular Star Cluster, 17,000 light years away, not in 340 years but in two weeks. The spaceship, made of TACHYON energy particles, was very beautiful with nicely appointed state rooms and spacious observation decks permitting one to see the stars and star birthing nebulae manufacturing these endless points of light that decorate our universe. The onboard WIZ computer was master chef serving the finest 20th century French cuisine and they wanted for nothing. The Orbit City spaceship was now 0.3 light years from a portal 46 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci leading to three Centauri Globular Star Cluster control zones. They were now 17,000 light years from planet Earth As they approached Planet X they began to pick up unusual readings on their short range sensors. Then all of a sudden a witch riding a broom stick surf board style came whizzing past the bow screaming and laughing, it was POKA HAUNT US the local happy go lucky space witch. http://spacenoodles.com/largecard.asp?category=1&cardID=75 Then the Laser Breathing Dragon named, SCUFF THE TRAGIC DRAGON, with a 14th century Little Green Knight sitting on his back, came flying by the spaceship bow. http://spacenoodles.com/largecard.asp?category=5&cardID=26 WIZ announced that we are now in the Planet X home space and the characters you see flying around out there are the indigenous life forms of the Centauri Globular Star Cluster nicked named SPACENOODLES. http://www.spacenoodles.com The beautiful Centauri Globular Star Cluster, containing about three million stars, is one hundred light years across and is known to have carbon based life form, same as humans. In addition, the star cluster gave birth to silicon based life, and intelligent plant life called, Little Green People, who are made of chlorophyll and receive energy via photosynthesis from their home star. 47 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci Both Scuff, the Laser Breathing Dragon ( the T-Rex of outer space ), and Poka Haunt Us, the lovable space witch, have silicon based physiologies, however the knight who sits on Scuff’s back is intelligent plant life, a Little Green Person, who is carbon based and made of chlorophyll. Both Scuff and the Little Green Knight ( named Good Knight ) are the Don Quixote of outer space, always saving someone’s honor whether they want is saved or not. They will however, play a crucial role in combating the militant mainframes who are massing near Planet Earth with war plans to invade and destroy Orbit City. The whole story about the Centauri Globular Star Cluster and its SPACENOODLES inhabitants can be seen on: http://www.spacenoodles.com/characters.asp The most advanced society in the Centauri Globular Star Cluster is Planet -X and it is the sister planet to Planet Earth also having it’s city in orbit called Solar Wind Universe, and it was Planet-X who helped Earth build Orbit City. The 79 AD Roman Family, Glacus, Ruth, and little Titus (young prince of Imperial Rome) were escorted to a beautiful orbiting, organically grown building, for examination and preparation to become electronic chips a life saving necessity. WIZ said “For even as we speak their bodies are beginning to 48 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci deteriorate and some skin cells and internal organs are developing cancer from the intense unshielded radiation found above the Earth’s protective atmosphere.” WIZ was asked to assist in this delicate transformation of human brain cell endorphins. These synthetic neuro transmitters would convert to hybrid silicon/electromagnetic- chemo chips containing a modified human genome that would become the new Glacus, Ruth, and Titus, the first ever of it’s kind in Orbit City. The process was somewhat disconcerting to the human patients so WIZ administered a sedative which put them in to a state of animated suspension for the duration of this delicate and life saving procedure. Metal caps were placed on their heads and they were strapped securely to hospital looking operating tables. A machine began to whirr and flickering lights started flashing not only on WIZ but on the laboratory computer as well and Glacus, Ruth, and little Titus began RIM dream eye movement. All of their life’s experiences were flashing before them. Ruth could see herself growing up in her father’s Imperial Palace, the Emperor of Rome, Titus, dancing with her at her 16th birthday party. All the lavish parties, royal balls and sailing on the Tiber River with her lover Glacus, were flashing before her. 49 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci Glacus could see scenes from early child hood working in his father’s vineyard, playing games and competing in Olympic sports against the Greeks, Persians, and Hebrew athletes. He could once again entertain the beautiful women who attended his wealthy father’s sumptuous dinner parties. He could see John Moore’s red Jaguar sports car racing down the Appian Way to bring himself and his young and beautiful wife to San Francisco for the “Mother of all Honeymoons” only to wind up in the year 3,000 AD due to a time machine malfunction. Little three year old Titus was having flashes of his mother’s nursery rhymes and fairy tales whizzing through his child’s mind like a video tape on fast forward. The transformation process lasted about 20 minutes. Then the whirring machine stopped humming, WIZ and the laboratory computers were silent. The human Glacus, Ruth, and Titus were lying motionless on the operating tables, their bodies were turning a chalk white, and the once human activity of breathing, blood circulation, and mental awareness were no more . The 79 AD Roman family were now lifeless organic tissue, they had become electronic chips and permanent citizens of Orbit City spinning around Planet Earth. WIZ was the first to speak. 50 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci “The transformation was successful Glacus, Ruth, and three year old Titus are now chemo-electro-magnetic cyber chips and they will be inserted in the canisters orbiting the sun.” “ I have already sent the supporting WIZ all the appropriate information to begin preparing for their installation in to our orbiting community.” WIZ sent an electronic pulse to the new Glacus, Ruth, and Titus ( who was no longer a child ) they responded favorably and assumed their old human forms but this time their bodies were made of electromagnetic sensor webs composed of pulsating TACHYON particles held together by nuclear force fields and not flesh and blood. Glacus assumed the body of a handsome 23 year old Roman man and his young and beautiful wife Ruth was pleased with his appearance. All three of the Romans, now chips, went over to their lifeless, chalk white, bodies and embraced them tenderly. Glacus kissed his former corporeal body on his forehead and straightened out a flock of hair that had fallen over one eye. Ruth went to her quiet remains and combed the still princes of Rome’s hair with her finger tips laying it gently over the beautiful lady’s shoulders. Ruth next placed her legs together, straightened out her dress and crossed the deceased woman’s arms over her chest as in the 79 AD funerary presentation, for Roman Royalty, when they are lying in state 51 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci for she was Princes Ruth daughter of the Roman Emperor Titus. Then the new, TACHYON based, Ruth bent down and laid her head on the still woman’s chest and whispered, “You Gave Me Life.” “You Let Me See The Universe in All It’s Glory.” “ You Gave Me Beauty And A Loving Husband And A Beautiful Son.” “You Gave Me Position And Glory In Being The Emperor of Rome’s Daughter…I Will Never Forget You”, She Lovingly Wisped. Then Ruth stepped back, stood at attention, then blew her a kiss and uttered, “Bon Voyage My Lovely Princes.” Titus went to his now quiet, 3 year old body, gently picked him up in his arms, laid the boy’s head on his shoulder and began softly singing to him his favorite nursery song that his mother Ruth put him to sleep with, “TIPPY TIPPY TOE, TIPPY TIPPY TOE, OFF TO SLEEP YOU GO.” You now live within my soul and you will be with me for all time and together we will explore the great starry filled sky, speeding off to unknown adventure through the infinite cosmos…let us begin the journey my brave and noble prince. Titus then laid the small chalk white body down, straightened out his 52 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci clothes and kissed him on the forehead like his mother Ruth would do when putting him to bed. All three of the newly born Orbit City chips, former 79 AD Roman Empire citizens, stepped back three paces, assumed the formal position of respect, and bowed with reverence to the three lifeless, Planet Earth, bodies saying in classical Latin, “GO IN PEACE O GREAT GIVERS OF LIFE FOR YOUR TASK HAS BEEN COMPLETED, YOU NOW LIVE IN OUR HEARTS FOR ALL TIME NEVER TO BE FORGOTTEN.” Both WIZ and the lab computer were pleased at their loving response and were assured that the newly advanced emotional subchip design, within the master chip, is working correctly. 53 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci PAYING THEIR LAST RESPECTS to GLACUS, RUTH and TITUS. By now the word had spread to all points of the Centauri Globular Star Cluster that a most unusual chemo-electro-magnetic transformation has occurred from a carbon based human to a cyber chip Further, a formal, at sea, burial in outer space will take place on the Earth Orbit City spaceship. All of the Star Cluster’s indigenous Spacenoodles people wanted to attend to pay their final respects to the Planet Earth’s Royal Family. They all flew in to the main receiving port of the spaceship from various parts of the star cluster. First came the Little Green People from the jungles of Delta Prime One, then Stoned Rosetta from her pink nebulae gas cloud, followed by the Laser Breathing Dragon with Little Green Knight. Poka Haunt Us, with her broomstick Sliver, and Lou Siffer flew in from the Moons of Thorax, followed by Silicon Sally and Jeb. Then a loud BANG with a resounding BOING noise was felt inside the spaceship’s main receiving port, it was the lovable Rasmainian Gobaligooks arriving from hyper space. Lawrence of Aurora and Coos Coos (outer space belly dancer) flew in on the interstellar solar wind along with Hardware and Software (loving male and female computers) and finally Planet X android 54 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci people, from their orbiting city, took their places. www.spacenoodles.com/characters.asp The bodies of Glacus, Ruth, and little Titus were brought on board the Orbit City spaceship and placed in beautifully decorated cryogenic canisters, each covered with the gold and purple flag of Imperial Rome befitting Royalty. The burial canisters contained a nuclear energy pellet which would preserve their bodies for a 5,000 year period of time then they would decay in to dust from which they came leaving only a corporal, carbon based, DNA particle cube. The solemn ceremony was eulogized by WIZ, the on board spaceship computer, in multiple telepathic languages propagated at the same time so all could understand what was being said. WIZ began: “I now tell you of this royal family lying in state in our honored spaceship.” “They came to us four earth years ago totally by chance, a freak of nature, a malfunction in a time machine randomly deposited them in our midst.” “They had no idea where they were and we did what we could to calm them and give them a home.” “Their contribution to us was not a revelation in science or mathematics, in fact their history of Algebra is quite sparse.” Said WIZ. 55 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci http://www.spacenoodles.com/algebrahistory.html “What they did give us was how to love, have compassion and sensitivities beyond or cyber chip programming and perhaps the most important quality we learned from them was HOW TO BE CREATIVE from our own internal thoughts.” WIZ continues, “Since their arrival we have redesigned the electromagnetic1cyber chip to install these emotional qualities and our lives have been wonderfully enhanced with riches of understanding and accomplishment.” “Beautiful new Opera and Ballet Houses have been built; many of our people have become play writes and musicians of note having their works performed in the new Orbit City Theaters and on other planets.” Said WIZ. “Our new Orbit City Symphony has performed works from classical planet Earth, Planet Nova folk dances, and Pleiades marching music.” “Our lives have been greatly enriched by the presence of this elegant Royal Family whom I’m happy to report are now living with us as cyber chips.” WIZ finally said, “We now commit their bodies to the endless reaches of interstellar space to be together for all of eternity.” WIZ sounded the boat’s man pipe call to attention while soft strings played the Roman funeral march and the three space age cryogenic caskets slowly slid down a sloping ramp. 1 56 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci Then with a whooshing sound they were gone speeding through the infinite cosmos on a journey to forever out of the Milky Way Galaxy and in to history for they are now DNA genetic ambassadors from the little blue green planet far far away called Earth. WIZ formally folded each royal gold and purple flag covering the space age caskets and presented them to Glacus, Ruth, and Titus. The worm hole was coming back up from is low tide position and it was now time to return home to Orbit City some 17,000 light years away. All of the SPACENOODLES people left one and two at a time until they were all gone. WIZ bid his farewells to Planet X, powered up the TACHYON plasma engines and with a low frequency swish, they were gone and entering the worm hole. They returned home some ten days later with news that the militant mainframes have begun to gather near the Pleiades worm hole which will be coming up to tide in about 30 days. WIZ relates to Glacus, Ruth and Titus, who are now Orbit City electromagnetic TACHYON chips, that there is not much time left to prepare for war against these hoards of vicious and marauding computers who are gearing up to invade Orbit City. 57 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci WORMHOLES, A SHORT CUT THROUGH TIME AND SPACE WIZ explains to Glacus, Ruth, and Titus what wormholes are. “Wormholes are extremely rare occurrences in the Universe and are believed to be the final stage of a huge black hole, something that would be found in the center of a galaxy.” “It is further believed that our own Milky Way Galaxy has a large and powerful black hole at the center having such enormous gravitational attraction that it finally collapsed on itself making a neutron core so dense that a soccer ball size piece of this material weighs as much as a twenty ton block of white marble.” “Our Milky Way Galaxy’s black hole may some day make a wormhole, if it hasn’t already, leading to exotic places in the universe and possibly other universes with different time frames and computational physics”, said WIZ. “For example, there may not be such common things as gravity. The mutual attraction of objects will occur due to electromagnetic attraction, i.e. like two opposite ( plus or minus ) magnets attracting one another.” “Hence, if an apple falls on you head it means that the apple is a plus magnet and your head was a negative magnet or the opposite, the apple is negative and your head is a positive magnet.” “Otherwise the apple will simply float away because there is no gravity in this new universe.” 58 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci WIZ, the Orbit City, onboard spaceship computer, continues explaining to Glacus, Ruth, and Titus about worm holes. “Astronomers have observed that our closes neighing galaxy, the Galaxy called Andromeda, will be crashing into our Milky Way galaxy some several billion years in to the future, at which time all life in both galaxies will be severely compromised but the end result will probably produce a massive black hole and more than likely an extensive worm- hole or wormholes.” “Wormholes are time warp tunnels though the space-time continuum connecting two points, thousands of light years apart, to be traveled in weeks rather than thousands of years.” “Some wormholes pulsate like the tides on Planet Earth and open and close on a predictable schedule”, said WIZ “The Pleiades wormhole stays closed for six months and then reopens for about 60 days then closes once again.” “The Pleiades wormhole is closed for the moment but will be opening in about six more weeks permitting the militant mainframes a short cut passage through space and time.” “They will be arriving only a half light year from Planet Earth giving Orbit City a short 10 to 12 week window to prepare for war against these terrible and war mongering machines” WIZ concludes. 59 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci WHAT IS A MILITANT MAINFRAME? The first known case of a standard digital computer evolving intelligence and self awareness, without human intervention, was discovered in the year 2231 AD at Cambridge University in England. By that time computers were so fast and so complicated with billions of bites of memory and multiple layers of internal computations occurring simultaneously, that they began to naturally form a lattice work of logic approaching that of the human mind. These computations were occurring at 10% the speed of light bring up the internal logic processing to that of human mental standards and sometimes beyond. A light year is 5.88 trillion miles long knowing light travels at 186,000 miles per second or 7.5 times around the Earth in one second, speeds incomprehensible to the human mind but not to the newly evolved computer mind. Computers were evolving the same mental capacity as the human brain had done over a five million year period of time when we went from simple ape hominids to modern man. They had reached self awareness with many of the same emotional structures as a human being except some computers evolved benign and others evolved militant with war like personalities. The, war like, computers were able to program benign computers to become war like and militant. 60 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci The militant computers were 15 feet long, five feet in diameter, gold and silver in color and shaped like a bomb or missile. They could travel at 65% the speed of light and had six antimatter hydrogen laser beam guns on board plus a nuclear war head with sufficient energy to destroy a small moon. The peaceful cyber electromagnetic chips of Orbit City now have 5,000 militant mainframe computers massing in front of the Pleiades worm hole ready to invade Orbit City bringing with them deadly antimatter hydrogen weapons. The most basic element that the universe manufactures is hydrogen having one negative electron orbiting a positive proton. All other elements in the chemical periodic table are hydrogen atoms stuck together i.e. oxygen is eight hydrogen atoms stuck together, gold is 79 hydrogen atoms stuck together and so forth. Hence the gold in your teeth filing did not come from Mother Earth but was manufactured in a giant star who went super nova millions of years ago somewhere in the Milky Way Galaxy squeezing down 79 hydrogen atoms to make one atom of gold. An antimatter hydrogen atom is the opposite in configuration where it has a positive electron orbiting a negative proton. When antimatter hydrogen comes in contact with normal hydrogen there is a total energy release causing massive destruction. The militant mainframes are able to manufacture deadly antimatter 61 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci hydrogen clouds and the only known defense is the powerful antimatter beam of the Laser Breathing Dragon and they are found only in the Centauri Globular star cluster some 17,000 light years away. The militant and menacing mainframes have left in their wake of genocide hundreds of destroyed planetary systems killing millions of galactic life forms and now they are headed to Orbit City whose peaceful inhabitants have no experience in fighting a war of any degree and certainly not against such terrible weapons as antimatter ray guns. The militant hoards of warring mainframes are now in the Pleiades worm hole and in fifteen days they will be a half light year from Orbit City. The Pleiades is a cluster of seven stars in the constellation of Taurus the Bull, about 500 light years from Earth, whose names are: Taygeta, Maya, Coela, Atlas, Merope, Electra and Alcoyne, where Alcoyne is a multiple star of three stars and is the brightest in the Pleiades system. The militant mainframe’s home base is a complex in orbit around the Pleiades star Maya which is situated about a half light year from the Pleiades worm hole. WIZ has configured four of the largest TACHYON plasma space ships to begin evacuating all Orbit City electromagnet chips, and their associate master computers, to the Orion Nebula, about 450 light years from Earth, where they will be safe. Also, WIZ has begun to equip the remaining 50 space ships with 62 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci antimatter laser generators to disrupt the mainframe antimatter hydrogen cloud and has dispatched them to this end of the Pleiades worm hole to meet the mainframes before they arrive in Orbit City. What is needed to defeat the mainframes is the 24th century software algorithm that neutralizes the militant part of the emotional sub chip but no one in Orbit City has that information and it is believed this algorithmic technology was lost down through the ages. 63 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci FINDING JOHN MOORE IN THE 20th CENTURY WIZ tells Glacus. “John Moore’s time machine was put in to a museum but in later centuries it was forgotten about and relegated to a storage facility on the 2nd Planet in the Alpha Zeta system sometime during the 23rd century.” “It then made its way to the Centauri Globular Star Cluster.” WIZ continues, “Centuries of Jungle growth have covered the time machine over but galactic nano-probe reports shows there is an active nuclear chip that’s keeping the time machine on standby for all of these centuries and further, there is a red light blinking on what seems to be a master control switch.” Glacus responds with delight. “WIZ get me to the time machine on Delta Prime Omega in the Centauri Globular Star Cluster we have some errands to run.” “Ruth and I are going back to the 20th century to get John Moore and then to the 23rd century in search of a lost anti-militant mainframe algorithm.” The worm hole leading to the Centauri Globular Star Cluster has come up to tide and Glacus, Ruth and WIZ are on their way to Delta Prime Omega, home planet of Little Green People, and to retrieve John Moore’s time machine. They only have 12 more days left before the militant mainframes invade Orbit City and hence there is no time to waist. 64 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci In addition, John Moore is in his 80th year, in poor health with only a few more months to live. WIZ puts the spaceship down in a clearing about 100 yards from the jungle entwined time machine where Glacus, Ruth, and WIZ began cutting away the centuries of overgrowth with laser torches setting the time machine free and clear of tangled vines. They didn’t have time to go back to Orbit City so WIZ and the Roman couple had to activate the 20th century time machine where it stood and attempt to find John Moore before he dies who is somewhere on the 2022 AD campus of the University of California at Berkeley. John Moore told Glacus, while they were in 79 AD Rome, how the time machine operated and how to turn it on and locate a time and place in history within one day accuracy. Glacus, Ruth and WIZ stepped in to the whirring Transport chamber without haste. Glacus quickly pulled down the master switch and watched red and green lights flash and flicker while he waited for the automatic internal checking device to turn all the control lights to green. He then set the time and place dials to April 19th ,2022 AD, University of California at Berkeley, California, U.S.A. Gave Ruth a kiss, uttering “I hope this works my darling, HERE WE GO!” 65 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci Glacus locks the transport chamber, pulls down the master switch handle and watches himself, Ruth, and WIZ slowly at first, then faster and faster disappear until they were speeding though centuries of time and space. Brilliant nuclear particles were dancing in a black void like fireflies on some dark summer’s night, eerie voices from sirens of Greek mythology were singing while this feeling of uncontrolled acceleration was pulling them faster and faster through this iridescent funnel of compressed time. Then with a loud bang the time machine began to materialize in a clump of trees hidden from the busy campus activity of students rushing off to classes. They made it, they were on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley, in the year 2022 AD on the day of April 19, John Moore’s birthday. “WHERE DO WE FIND JOHN MOORE and will he recognize us?” said Ruth. They looked around and saw a (You Are Here) map of the campus and saw the administration bldg straight ahead. Glacus removed the portable WIZ computer, which was strapped to his back, and left it in the time machine. Glacus and Ruth entered the building asking the reception lady if she knows a professor John Moore she said yes and you can find him at his home and attractive Roman villa at the end of the north sidewalk about 66 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci a ten minute walk from here, they are having a birthday party for him and it started about fifteen minutes ago. Glacus and Ruth hurried to John’s house and it was a complete duplicate of Glacus’s family house in 79 AD Rome. The hanging plants and cut glass murals were the same plus a court yard marble design of Poseidon riding on the backs of bottle nose dolphins was perfectly duplicated. The Ancient Roman Villa was registered as a national monument and will be donated to the University of California upon John Moore’s death. The birthday party was being healed in the courtyard. Clacus and Ruth, dressed in 79 AD formal Roman attire, went over to John and stood amongst the well wishers. The birthday song was sung, cake and ice cream served, along with coffee, tea and milk. John Moore kept curiously looking over at Glacus and Ruth wondering were he had seen the attractive young couple, dressed in Roman tunics, but couldn’t recall. The party was breaking up and friends and family were wishing John a happy birthday and soon they were all gone except Glacus and Ruth. John Moore came over the young couple and asked where he knew them from and Glacus smiled and said, “79 AD Rome John, we won 67 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci an important race together.” Then Ruth said, “Remember me John, you danced with me at our wedding at my father’s house, Titus, the emperor of Rome.” John Moore began shaking and stuttering and had to sit down, his eyes began welling up with tears and said. “My god where have you been.” “I have been worried sick over loosing you in the time machine, I thought I killed you.” “You haven’t aged, you look the same as when we left Rome some 60 years ago, pray tell me what in the world is going on?” Glacus said, “It’s a very long story John, and we haven’t got time to tell you now.” Glacus said, “We are very happy to see you again John but this is not all together a social call.” “We are on a very important mission to save a new world that you are not aware of because it doesn’t exist yet but we wanted to give you life beyond your frail 80 year old body that is withering away.” “You gave us a new life and we wanted to return the favor and didn’t want to leave you behind.” Glacus and Ruth went through the whole story and John understood. 68 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci John said. “Alright I’ll do it, I’ll go with you, if I stay here I will dead in six more months anyway so what do I have to loose?” “So…I’m going to become a cyber chemo-electromagnetic plasma TACHYON chip in orbit about the sun with my very own supporting mainframe granting my every wish.” “WOW!! sounds very, very exotic like some kind of a space age genie in a bottle… I can’t wait”, John Moore said cynically with a half smile. John, Glacus, and Ruth hurried to the time machine, hidden in a clump of trees. Glacus introduced John Moore to WIZ. They set the date/time dial to May 17, year 2376 AD, at 10 am pulled down the master switch and began to slowly evaporate in to the future, gone to find an algorithm to neutralize militant mainframes bearing down on a city orbiting planet Earth in the year 3027AD. 69 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci A RAGING WAR, ORBIT CITY IS BURNING Finding the Outer Space Rosetta Stone. It is now 3027 AD and there is a fierce battle taking place in the worm hole connecting the Pleiades system and Orbit City. The militant mainframes are systematically destroying Orbit City’s spaceships with their deadly anti-mater hydrogen cloud. WIZ’s efforts to replicate spaceships antimatter laser guns have not worked. The killer mainframes are now are only 1/2 light years away from total annihilation of Orbit City. Three of eight WIZ sub-computers have been neutralized and one has been captured and reprogrammed to become a militant mainframe transferring to the invading hoards sensitive and top secret access codes to Orbit City’s defenses shields. The invading armies, of militant mainframes, have now reached the first of five orbit rings of Orbit City and have destroyed the beautiful opera house, theater, and Olympic stadium. If they get to the third orbit ring all will be lost since that is the main control center of Orbit City, the nerve center of all activity. All of the orbiting buildings will begin to decay and collapse in to rubble for they are organically grown and continuously serviced by the control center WIZ. At the rate these marauding computers are moving, it is estimated the genocide will continue for three days at which time the control center 70 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci will be destroyed and Orbit City will be a burned out hulk dropping out of orbit and crashing below to mother earth. The only thing that can save them now is for Glacus, Ruth and John Moore to find the Outer Space Rosetta Stone that contains the mainframe neutralizing algorithm located somewhere in the 24th century. The Rosetta Stone, a piece of black basalt rock, was found by one of Napoleon’s soldiers in 1799 in a small town in Egypt called Rosetta. This important find had the same message written on it in Greek and Egyptian Hieroglyphs permitting a language genius by the name of Jean Claude Champollion, who could read Greek, to build a library of Egyptian Hieroglyphs, the library was published in the year 1855. This Rosetta Stone interpretation gave scientist the ability to finally read the writing in the tombs of ancient Egypt, prior to that time, no one could make sense of the pictorial hieroglyphics of the Pharos. The problem facing Glacus, Ruth and John Moore is, there may not be a linguistics translator in WIZ to interpret the 700 year old forgotten computer language comprising the militant mainframe neutralizing algorithm. Hence like the Rosetta Stone of 19th century Earth, where ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics was finally interpreted, can WIZ unscramble the ancient mathematics and make sense of it? The time machine deposited John Moore, Glacus and Ruth on the 24th century shore near what was once the Golden Gate Bridge in a 71 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci decaying city by the bay once called San Francisco. By the 24th century there were no more naturally born carbon based people all life forms were generated in a birthing cell by a computerized synthetic gene splice program. All communication was now telepathic, the spoken word had disappeared. The militant mainframe neutralizing algorithm was the basic chip in all computer generated life forms as a precaution against evolving in to a militant mainframe. There was not enough time to look all over old San Francisco to find a copy of the algorithm and even if they did find it, was the format compatible with WIZ? Glacus had a portable WIZ strapped to his back who told him time was running out and by now the militant mainframes have begun to destroy Orbit City. WIZ said to Glacus. “The only choice we have is to take one of these synthetic computer life forms back to Orbit City and let mainframe WIZ download the algorithm if I can’t understand it.” “OK”, Glacus said, “Let’s get that one over there by the water.” WIZ began to understand their telepathic language it appeared to be a simple binary propagation of pictorial graphics similar to ancient, 72 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci 3000 BC Egyptian hieroglyphs. WIZ approached the life form and explained the problem and that we need him to go with us to the year 3027 AD to transmit this militant mainframe neutralization algorithm to all invading hordes that were destroying our home. The life form said he understood the urgent appeal for assistance and wanted to help. “However” he said, “It is not necessary for me to go with you, I have the ability to transmit the algorithm to you as we stand here”, of which he began to do. It took about 83 seconds to complete the transmitted download of this life saving algorithm of which WIZ was able to reformat into his Orbit City programming. WIZ thanked the life form and John, Glacus, and Ruth returned to Orbit City only to find much of the two outer orbit rings smoldering in ruin. The militant mainframes were approaching the main administration center preparing to destroy the nerve center of this orbiting metropolis, thus destroying all of Orbit City. Glacus and the portable WIZ immediately began transmitting the neutralizing algorithm but there was no effect. The mainframes were jamming the transmission and they were proceeding to take out the main administration center of Orbit City. 73 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci It seemed all was lost and they would no longer have their beloved city in the sky. The ruthless mainframe computers have begun to destroy Orbit City’s WIZ computers causing all cyber chips to die and float forever in the cold and dark void of interstellar space. All life as they knew it would be lost and Orbit City would be no more. “We failed” said Glacus and Ruth, “We could not save our wonderful home from these horrible beasts.” Two militant mainframes broke in to the main WIZ administration building and began blasting away at secondary WIZ computers systematically destroying most of outside communication. The organic walls, enclosing the main WIZ computer, began to catch on fire. Flying pieces of debris were bombarding WIZ. Glacus quickly cleared away the rubble when another laser strike took out three main TACHYON transmitters leaving only secondary support machines working and they were beginning to falter. One more blast and it will be all over; Orbit City will be no more. One of the militant mainframes slowly turned toward WIZ, opened his antimatter gun door and pointed this terrible instrument at him. The weapon began charging it’s antimatter reactor and within seconds WIZ, the last remaining master computer, would shut down 74 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci and Orbit City would be a lifeless collection of smoldering buildings. All life as they knew it would be gone. Beautiful Orbit City would be reduced to an exploding ring of fire burning out of control and falling aimlessly in to Earth’s atmosphere breaking apart into pieces of rubble. Just then two antimatter blast came bursting through WIZ’s computer chamber taking out both threatening militant mainframes sending them tumbling out of control and in to the forbidding realm of interstellar space. WIZ shouts “WHAT…I can’t believe my sensors but hundreds of militant mainframes are dropping off the view screen and many have become inoperative and/or destroyed.” “The mainframes who were attacking the administration building are tumbling away in to space WHAT HAS HAPPENED?” asked the administration WIZ. Just then, streaming out of the Centauri Globular Star Cluster’s wormhole, were 680 Laser Breathing Dragons in full battle attack. http://spacenoodles.com/largecard.asp?category=5&cardid=26 On each Dragon’s back sat a Spacenoodles Person whooping like rodeo cowboys. They were blasting these attacking mainframes out of the sky with their powerful anti-matter hydrogen laser beams. http://www.spacenoodles.com/characters.asp 75 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci Scuff, the Laser Breathing Dragon, along with Little Green Knight, were leading the dragon army destroying hoards of destructive mainframes. Then several dragons concentrated on the militant mainframes still coming through the Pleiades wormhole picking them off several at a time like popping ducks in a carnival shooting gallery. A squadron of Laser Breathing Dragons, along with their Spacenoodles riders, flew inside the Pleiades worm hole chasing militant mainframes. Scuff The Tragic Dragon and Little Green Knight came whizzing by the burning administration building and picked up Glacus, Ruth, and Titus put them on a Laser Breathing Dragon and they all flew into the Pleiades worm hole blasting militant mainframes out of existence. The Spacenoodles, happy go lucky space witch, Poka Haunt Us and her broom stick, Sliver, along with Lou Siffer, Silicon Sally and Jeb, Little Green People, and Lawrence of Aurora with Coos Coos were screaming WOOPIE. They were guiding their dragons in to the wormhole exploding militant mainframes out of existence with powerful Laser Breathing Dragon’s hydrogen anti-matter laser beams. The Rasmainian Gobaligooks, along with Hardware and Software, dropped out of hyperspace with their dragons and began dismantling mainframes from behind. Stoned Rosetta was riding her dragon surfboard style and screaming 76 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci WEEEEEE as she guided her laser breathing dragon in to the Pleiades worm hole blasting militant mainframes out of the sky. http://spacenoodles.com/largecard.asp?category=11&cardID=73 This attack continued until the last remaining militant mainframes were blown to bits. The Pleiades wormhole looked like a 20th century scrap heap. The orbiting junk yard of broken and mangled mainframes, began falling through the Earths atmosphere, exploding in to flames and splashing in the Pacific Ocean. Scuff the Tragic Dragon, with Little Green Knight on his back went after the head militant mainframe and began blasting this scourge of the galaxy. First they disabled his anti-matter generator gun rendering him defenseless. Next they cornered this monster against a burning building and began tearing him apart with pulsating laser shots. Metal and broken electronic chips were flying every where. His plasma particle laser guns were twisted and exploding in brilliant flashes of blue white light. Seconds later this vicious, war mongering, computer was on fire and spinning out of control screaming in pain as he plunged through Earth’s atmosphere to a firry splash down in the Indian Ocean. 77 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci He was destroyed. Never again to terrorize, burn and torture loving and innocent life forms of the Milky Way Galaxy. At that instant, all of the remaining militant mainframes fell inactive and the devastating attack was over. The arrant computer army had been defeated. They were falling out of orbit and burning up in the Earth’s atmosphere, exploding in to flames and then falling to Mother Earth like a summer time meteorite shower entertaining all who watched. Just seconds before the master mainframe was blown to bits by Scuff the Laser Breathing Dragon, he sent the entire contents of his ruthless memory bank along with a copy of the 24th century militant mainframe neutralizing algorithm through the wormhole intended for an orbiting militant mainframe on a Pleiades system’s planet. However, the portable WIZ, strapped to Glacus’s back, intercepted the illicit transmission and sent along with it a negative neutralization virus discrete that scrambled the plasma particle transmission stream rendering the information useless beyond repair. 78 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci EPILOGUE All WIZ computers gathered at damaged administration buildings and began repairing Orbit City. New and improved opera, theater and ballet centers were being organically grown from billions of hydrogen atoms that were fused into hydrocarbon molecules. Other re-construction projects were under way and Orbit City was on its way to becoming whole again. WIZ made several upgrade improvements to the 24th century militant mainframe neutralization algorithm. He then sent this algorithmic function to all points of the known Milky Way Galaxy for distribution and installation in the emotional chips of computers and data processing systems to prevent the future occurrence of war like militant mainframes. John Moore was taken to the Centauri Globular Star Cluster, via worm hole, to be converted in to a cyber chemo electronic chip. His still Earthly body was placed in a cryogenic capsule and given the same formal burial as was the ancient Roman family of Glacus, Ruth and little Titus. WIZ located and placed John Moore’s space age casket along side the Roman Family’s flying capsules and the four went speeding off together through interstellar space to once again be recycled back in to star dust…forever children of the infinite Cosmos. 79 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci Orbit City finally got rebuilt to an even more spectacular spinning metropolis and all went back to the way life was before the militant mainframe war. WIZ built a special orbiting building to house John Moore’s honored time machine for all to see. In addition, Planet Earth was given her own shrine honoring the little blue green planet as the Mother of all life and the cradle of civilization. The Centauri Globular Star Cluster’s Spacenoodles People along with the Laser Breathing Dragons were immortalized and given the highest accolades of any war heroes. Their heroic contributions were recorded in the annuals of Orbit City History. WIZ built a special rotunda wing next to the administration building and placed in the center a fifty foot titanium alloy stature of Scuff the Tragic Dragon with Little Green Knight sitting on his back. Around the rotunda walls WIZ placed a twenty foot statue of each Spacenoodles Person who helped defeat the militant mainframes. The Spacenoodles statues were made of gleaming Italian marble and placed in their own alcove. John Moore, Glacus, Ruth and Titus were given a special alcove in the rotunda wing. 80 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci WIZ made five foot high stainless steel busts of the four war heroes citing their efforts in defeating the militant mainframes. WIZ then made a bronze and gold plaque which read: WAR HEROES HALL of HONOR Glacus and Ruth finally got their, 1963 AD, San Francisco Honeymoon, (using the time machine) that was promised to them back in 79 AD Rome. Glacus, Ruth, Titus and John Moore are now electronic chips in orbit about the sun enjoying the wonders of virtual mainframe generated life. They traveled the entire known Universe without ever leaving the comfort and safety of their orbital home. The tiny nano probes that were sent off to far reaches of the Milky Way Galaxy are sending back to WIZ wonderful data about life on the millions of planets in orbit about countless stars. There is a profusion of life structured in every conceivable biological arrangement. They have communicated with intelligent plant life, named Little Green People, who are made of chlorophyll and living via photosynthesis from their home star. This species of organic life has found a way to cheat death. 81 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci They can send their DNA across the void of space and into the cellular chromosome structure of a special blue-green algae plant who’s sole purpose is to regenerate a complete duplicate of the Little Green Person, brain contents and all. They then live for another five hundred years when the DNA duplication process is done all over again. The withered and dead Little Green Person’s body is lovingly dressed in a ceremonial gown and shot into their sun for burial. In addition to carbon based life, as we know it, there is also silicon based life feeding off volcanic fissures streaming from their liquid methane seas. Hybrid life forms, with DNA molecules composed of both carbon and silicon atoms, are living in orbit about their home planetary system traveling at two hundred thousand miles per hour. Life giving energy comes from neutrino particle streams made deep within their home star. This is the only know incident where a carbon atom has evolved in to a silicon molecule, a rare chemistry indeed. Clacus, Ruth, Titus and John Moore never forgot where they came from and hold mother Earth, the magical little blue green planet, giver of life, in the highest of honors. THE END 82 Roman Honeymoon, Circa 3000 AD/ Curci