Thursday, June 04, 2009

The day the Earth stood still (Part 7)

During dinner that evening, I decided to approach Josey and ask him if he had any solution. Josey obliged willingly. He told me that he had created a machine few years back which was a sort of time machine. He said that the research on the machine was going on for thousands of years and he was not the one who invented it. It was only his luck that it was completed in his tenure as an ETzen.

He explained to me that the machine could pass a message to the past. The message would not go in any physical form, but could be fed into the minds of the entire Earth at any specified point in the past. Fortunately, there was no limit on the length of the message. Only constraint was that it required huge amount of energy to transmit the message. So much that we would be left with only 15 days of energy supply after transmission of the message. This was unthinkable.

We could have found a solution to our problem in the 6-8 months that we had. With Emergency Code under operation, the available time could have extended by a month or two as medical care was stopped and the dying were allowed to die irrespective of the Human Rights Memorandum (HRM) as Emergency Code superseded the HRM. This could raise the hope for the living. Sometimes, brutal measures had to be taken. And this was that time. Emergency Code had been envisaged to come into operation when the survival of human beings as a species was considered threatened.

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