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Lost in the Future, by John Victor Peterson
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Title: Lost in the Future
Author: John Victor Peterson
Release Date: April 30, 2009 [EBook #28645]
Language: English
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Did you ever wonder what might happen if mankind ever exceeded the speed of light? Here is a profound story based on that thought--a story which may well forecast one of the problems to be encountered in space travel.
lost in the future
by ... John Victor Peterson
They had discovered a new planet--but its people did not see them until after they had traveled on.
Albrecht and I went down in a shuttleship, leaving the stellatomic orbited pole-to-pole two thousand miles above Alpha Centauri's second planet. While we took an atmosphere-brushing approach which wouldn't burn off the shuttle's skin, we went as swiftly as we could.
A week before we had completed man's first trip through hyperspace. We were now making the first landing on an inhabited planet of another sun. All the preliminary investigations had been made via electronspectroscopes and electrontelescopes from the stellatomic.
We knew that the atmo