The Earth Experiment

Patrick Vaitus

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A sophisticated starship travels from a faraway galaxy to a planet capable of sustaining life having the mission to create intelligent life forms.
A sophisticated starship travels from a faraway galaxy to a planet capable of sustaining life. The vessel's inhabitants have undergone millennia of careful genetic selection, resulting in supreme intelligence. Due to their highly advanced technology, their lifespans have been extended to eternity. The objective is to perform an experiment at a planetary scale: The Earth Experiment. Their mission is to create intelligent life forms - beginning only with inorganic matter and without physically intervening on the planet - evolution must occur naturally. They face many unexpected complications over the course of the experiment as they use the ability to travel using the star gates technology. All is described in a highly entertaining context, spiced with conflicts between the characters. The book describes the formation of life on earth, extinctions at planetary scale, evolution from algae to intelligent human beings, the effects of alien intervention on the planet, building of pyramids, appearance of God-based religions, and so on. The reader has the opportunity to witness The Earth Experiment as if watching the earth's evolution over millennia through video cameras.
Patrick Vaitus is a Canadian author. He is also the author of the book Near Dracula’s Castle.

Sujets

• Science Fiction
• Planets
• Suspenso
• Aliens, el regreso
• Triller
• Space travel
• Starship
• Terraforming
• Pyramid
• Galaxy
• Jefferson Starship
• Suspense
• Univers d'Alien
• Fiction
• Terraformation

Informations

• Publié par: iUniverse
• Date de parution: 15 mai 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781663252968
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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THE EARTH EXPERIMENT
 
 
 
 
 
 
PATRICK VAITUS
 
 
 
 

 
THE EARTH EXPERIMENT
 
 
Copyright © 2023 Patrick Vaitus.
 
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ISBN: 978-1-6632-5295-1 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-6632-5296-8 (e)
 
Library of Congress Control Number: 2023908542
 
 
 
 
iUniverse rev. date:  05/09/2023
CONTENTS
Chapter 1     The intergalactic hyper fly
Chapter 2     The threshold destination
Chapter 3     The Blue Planet
Chapter 4     Stabilizing the planet
Chapter 5     The inorganic planet
Chapter 6     The organic planet
Chapter 7     Prokaryotes
Chapter 8     Elementary life
Chapter 9     The mega continent
Chapter 10     Politics
Chapter 11     The ice planet
Chapter 12     Explosion
Chapter 13     Extinction
Chapter 14     Dinosaurs
Chapter 15     The second extinction
Chapter 16     Evolution
Chapter 17     The message
Chapter 18     Ancient Gods
Chapter 19     The Incident
Chapter 20     War
Chapter 21     Management change
List of Main Characters
 
To see the main characters list and details check the last page
CHAPTER 1
The intergalactic hyper fly
As we live an eternity, we have to focus on doing right things.
Dem, The official journal
Zeu and Herr decided to inspect the navigation room of the ship.
“It’s unbelievable,” Herr said, “we’ve been on this ship for such a long time and yet we’ve never been in the navigation room.”
“Irrelevant!” Zeu answered. “We know every detail of every corner, of every piece of equipment, of every cable, and all connections with all the software through the microchip implanted in our brain. It is connected with all ship’s computers and …
“I know,” Herr interrupted him. “But still, it’s different when you see it in reality. It’s better than holographic or mnemonic projection. Especially for us …” she looked seriously at him and with her accent on the last two words, “... eternal entities.” She smiled broadly at him, but Zeu appeared not to enjoy her joke very much.
Today for some reason he was enjoying admiring his muscular body much more than on any other day. His muscles where more developed than the muscles of the other men on the ship. With only one exception … Cronn , it was like an echo in his mind. His hair was long, past his shoulders and flowing like a black river. His skin was also different from the others, somehow he looked more tanned. His eyes were black, blacker than anyone on the ship. His medium long beard, matched by his hair, was carefully maintained. He was able to maintain his peak physical appearance through a series of exercises carefully developed over many years, and particularly by ingesting only selected foods and proteins. The specific antiaging ingredients of the food made Zeu, Herr and all the others immortal.
Think of it as an opportunity to reinvent yourself, Zeu thought. And Herr was, as always with him. He had always wondered why she liked him so much. She joined him at the gym whenever he went there, and imitated his exercise regime, but at a lower level. As a result, her wonderful body was perhaps a bit too muscled for a woman. Her skin was white. Her hair was almost as black as his, but just a little longer and curly. She was tall, but just a bit shorter than him. They made a perfect couple.
After a short silence, Herr spoke, “Remember, I don’t like to be contradicted,” she said smiling bitterly at him.”
Zeu looked intently at her, and despite the fact that his telepathic message might be received, he replied, “you’d better get used to this, especially if we want our plan to succeed.”
“Do you understand why this project is called ‘the earth experiment’?” Herr asked him somewhat vaguely.
“Yes, because it is an experiment done on a planetary scale,” he answered, quite convinced.
“That would just be terraforming then. Every terraforming project that our civilization has done was an experiment on a planetary scale,” Herr was unsatisfied with his answer.
“The difference is that we will start with a totally inorganic planet, and our interventions are limited compared to classical terraforming,” Zeu did his best to convince her.
“Any interventions we make will be terraforming, more or less.” Herr was still firm on her position.
“Once we get there, the planet will be under total quarantine. All the meteors that contain any trace of organics will be deflected away from the planet. We want to create life from inorganics on that planet. If you need more details on the program you can access the schedule data at …”
“I know, I know …” she interrupted, bored by his explanations. “In a way, it’s like we’ll be discovering our own organic evolution.”
As the door of the elevator began to open, he felt a terrible verge to kiss her. Sensing his impulse, Herr said, “Do not kiss me here and now.”
“Why? “
“Because, it is strictly forbidden.”
“No, it’s not forbidden. It’s only recommended.”
“In any case,” she appeared unconvinced, “why don’t you have your computer create a replica of me, if you haven’t already yet, and use it for all your perverse pleasures.”
“I already did. I’d imagine you have a replica of me as well,” he grinned.
“You’ve made no secret of your sexual passions. I’d wager that several of the other women on the ship have a replica of you as well.”
“As you said, regarding the navigation room, reality is different than a simulation. A replica is not as good as the original.”
As they stepped out of elevator, Herr stopped and turned to him. “A replica is better than the original. It is created especially for this purpose. It is perfection!” She paused, giving him some time to let it sink in. “Now, let’s focus on the current matter, this navigation room, as we are already here?” she smiled feeling like she had won a small victory, and turned back to the impressive navigation room.
Three people stood there. Two of them were focused on a complicated holographic protection of some communication satellites and the nearby stars and planets. Watching over them stood a tall and unusually slim lady. She was watching the holographic projection, or was she supervising them? She wore a black dress that was very tight to her body, making her appear much taller than she was. Her hair was very short cut. Her tight clothing and short hair made her appear too skinny.
“That is Discordia,” Herr said to Zeu in a very low voice. “It is said that she and her crew are the oldest ones on the ship. They are the first generation to enjoy the benefit of the eternal life extension.”
“I’ve heard that too,” Zeu answered, “they were among the first batches of people who started the life extension program. At that time, the technology wasn’t very well-known and was quite risky because of its side effects.”
“Yes, at the very beginning there were some side effects. I’ve studied this in detail. It is no longer a concern, now that we are eating the right proteins.” For a few moments they were silent as they walked slowly, carefully analyzing the impressive navigation room. It was quite large but not at all as large as the main control room, or the main auditorium, or the main living space of the ship. It was rather comparable in dimensions to a large meeting room. The navigation room was very well organized with navigation computers, spaces for holographic projections, chairs with interesting shapes. Herr always felt the need to deliver information to Zeu, even though she was sure he knew all the information and was able to search for any information in the computer’s databases in real time, through his microchip brain implant.
“Now we are flying at hyper-light speed, and yet we maintain a stable equilibrium. When the ship is accelerating or decelerating, the navigation room staff sit in these chairs, and they are rigidly secured and shielded from the forces of our momentum.”
“Can you believe, after millennia of science and evolution, we are still quite rudimentary on space navigation technology?” Herm, said in a sad voice. He materialized near them using the ship’s teleportation system.
“I would agree with you Herm,” Herr said in a polite yet imperious voice, “but maybe there are real limits. We should admit that in some areas, we have reached the absolute maximum. Beyond that maximum threshold, nothing more can be achieved. Anything more is impossible. The maximum in inter-galactic travel has been achieved, and we must accept it.”
Disturbed by Herr’s observation, Herm raised his blue eyes toward her. He looked for a moment at her and at Zeu. Zeu and Herr returned his gaze. He was much younger then Zeu and quite skinny. He had nice muscles. His delicate features dissolved into a smile that he directed at Herr.
“