Doug Donnan
Executive
Editor/GTNW
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donnan.doug@yahoo.com
*Author's Note:
This is another 'Mini-Cine'
proposal in the
works. I hope that you enjoy...
"A Ring for Terra"
by
Doug Donnan
[2022
/ Palomar Mountain / San Diego, California]
"Why that's
completely insane!" Professor von Tang shouted as he threw up his
white-smocked arms like some medieval
wizard.
"We've got to put a stop to it before it's too late."
"That just ain't gonna' happen capn',"
Agent Miller responded with a kind of piggish snort. "NASA and the NRC
have
confidently
commissioned the 'first' string as a 'go' orbital launch. My bosses at the NSA
have already given those bastards
our homeland
security blessing on this entire orbiting nuke-waste ring program."
Outside a full alabaster moon seemed to be
almost eavesdropping as it hung up in the midnight sky just above the massive
curving dome of
the wide open Palomar observatory. It was a perfect night for lovers and
stargazers alike.
"NASA? The NRC...even the National
Security Agency? Why wasn't anyone told about this whole business? For
Christ's
sake man, you
people just can't do this. It can only lead to-- "
"You know professor," Miller cut
in with a rude indifference. "I heard talk by the watercooler that once
this whole damn
nuke
ring-around-the-world thing comes 'full circle', pun intended, they say that
it'll glow all the way across the night sky...like
some kind of
gigantic fluorescent orange hula-hoop!"
"Lord have mercy on us all," von
Tang sighed as he sagged against the narrow iron railing that surrounded the
massive,
jutting 200 inch
reflecting Hale telescope.
__ The End __
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