Near the Chimborazo Launch Center in beautiful, scenic Riobamba, Ecuador, ten couples and twenty guests entered a movie theater. The forty of them, plus the camera crew filming them for the reality show, sat in a custom-built Imax theater, looking almost straight up at a huge, immersive 3D screen. Images of space morphed before their eyes. The actor Morgan Freeman narrated the movie because everything sounds more profound when articulated by Morgan Freeman.
“Some galaxies have over a trillion stars. The Milky Way galaxy alone has 300 billion visible stars, and millions more too faint to detect. The universe may have one trillion visible galaxies (antimatter and dark matter galaxies may be invisible), some of which are 11 billion light years away.”
Jasmine started fiddling with James’ cock as soon as they sat down. James joked that she didn’t have an “off” button.
The visible universe contains as many as 300 sextillion stars. If only 1 % of those 300,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars had habitable worlds; and only 1 % of those had simple life; and if only 1 % of those had complex life; and if only 1 % of those had intelligent life, then there is a lot of intelligent life in the universe. Like, about, 3,000,000,000,000,000. But that’s just one world with intelligent life out of every 10 million, or 3000 intelligent life forms per galaxy -1% of all star systems. If our galaxy has 3000 intelligent life forms, then the real question is not, are we alone in the universe? It’s, how close are our nearest neighbors?”
James and Jasmine had already started making out, so he felt under her mini-skirt as she spread her legs for him. He had not fooled around in a movie theater since Marcy Denardo in high school.
“The universe is 13.7 billion years old, at least 156 billion light-years across, flat, spherical, pinkish (lots of red dwarfs), mostly empty, and growing. The universe itself could be surrounded by multi-dimensional multi-verses, if those idiot-savants at string theory are correct. And the bigger it gets, the faster it grows, and the faster it grows, the bigger it gets, such that galaxies are flying ever farther away from each other. In several billion years, few galaxies will even be visible within our event horizon. The Milky Way will be a solitary island surrounded by an impassable ocean of empty space. When it takes billions of years to get from here to there, then you can’t get there from here.
“As for travel time, one light year is almost 10 trillion kilometers. Even traveling at half the speed of light, or over 1 million kilometers per hour, the closest stars are not really close. There are about 200 stars within 25 light years, 2000 stars within 50 light years, and 20,000 stars within 100 light years. Just visiting our closest neighbors will take millennia. If it took a million years just to colonize our galaxy, then it would take 100 million billion years to colonize 100 billion galaxies. Assuming one found a feasible way to cross the millions of light years that separate most galaxies.”
He petted Jasmine’s pussy mound like a kitty, and sure enough, Jasmine purred. His fingertip gently pushed her pubes like a hairbrush. She dug her fingernails into the back of his shirt to punish him for making her feel so good.
“Not to rush things, but Earth will be destroyed within a couple billion years anyways, either 1) when the Sun grows large enough to cook our planet; 2) when Andromeda, a galaxy twice as large than our own, crashes into the Milky Way at one million kilometers per hour (creating the Milkymeda or the Andromeda Way); or 3) when the Milky Way, which is part of a galactic club dubbed the Local Group, slams into the Virgo Cluster. Galaxy clusters are the largest structures in the universe bound by gravity (well, technically, super-clusters are), some containing 10,000 times the mass of the Milky Way. Each galaxy has millions of black holes, so a galaxy cluster could have billions of black holes, all heading our way. Talk about a cluster-fuck.
“Our Milky Way galaxy itself has shredded hundreds of smaller galaxies, and even now is devouring the dwarf galaxy Sagittarius, a la Borg. (A “dwarf” galaxy has less than a billion stars, compared to one trillion for the big boys). 15–20 mini-galaxies orbit the Milky Way.”
He inserted his first finger deep into her soaking wet pussy and everyone in the theater heard her gasp. The thought that the camera crews would record them having sex only turned her on that much more.
“And just when one thought it couldn’t get any worse, astronomers using radio telescopes discovered an invisible galaxy, presumably made of either dark matter or antimatter, in the Virgo Cluster, 50 million light-years away, but closing quickly. The entire galaxy, called VIRGOHI21 (because Holy Fucking Shit didn’t sound sciencey), has no visible stars, even though it has enough mass to qualify as a galaxy. Invisible galaxies may not be pretty but, in astronomy terms, they are still pretty attractive.
“Since matter and antimatter explode on contact, and since that explosion is the most powerful known to science, it will be interesting for our doomed descendants to watch an entire invisible galaxy full of the stuff crash into our neighborhood at a million kilometers per hour.”
Once she saw the green dot of a camera pointing at her, Jasmine pulled down her tight blouse so that her big tits fell out. James sucked on one hungrily as he finger fucked her harder.
“Will the universe expand forever, each galaxy a billion light years from each other, such that those in one galaxy cannot detect or communicate with those in other galaxies? Will each galaxy have thousands of intelligent life forms living in peace or battling to the death?
“Will the universe eventually contract and collapse back onto itself in a Big Crunch, a karmic version of the Big Bang? If everything else has a life cycle, then why not the universe itself? Since it is 13.7 billion years old and still growing, and assuming it will contract no faster than it expanded, then its life span could last 30 billion years.”
Jasmine heard someone groan in ecstasy, and realized that her mother was getting Bob off. That slut is stealing her scene! Jasmine instantly doubled the sound of her moans.
“Is the universe infinite, or just really, really big? Is it eternal, or just really, really old? If the universe is expanding, then just what the hell is it expanding into? If you sat at the very edge of the universe, what would you see? Besides the restaurant from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe. By expanding, is the universe turning nothingness into empty space? How would you tell the difference? How can the universe be the totality of existence if it gets bigger?
“And if God made us, then why the hell did he wait 13 billion years after the first planets formed? Are we that unimportant, or is he that patient? As Nietzsche put it, is God a blunder of man, or man a blunder of God? Humans separated from chimps several million years ago, so why wait so long before sending Jesus? Why bother making quadrillions of planets if we are so unique? He could have made Earth and taken the rest of the week off.”
Oh, God, Jasmine needed more than a finger. She pulled off his clothes with the agility of a drunk and raced her mother to the first orgasm.
Mr. Freeman continued: “And some things in space just freak space experts out. Like voids.
“A void is not a lot of room with almost nothing in it, like interstellar space. Even tiny amounts of dust and gas, and the occasional rogue planet, exist between star systems and between galaxies. Those are not voids, but lots of space with almost nothing in them.
“Voids are different. Voids have no matter, antimatter, dark matter or dark energy because they give off absolutely no heat or variance in heat. A void is devoid of thermal radiation. Its temperature is always absolute zero.”
James inserted another finger and Jasmine bit her lip so hard she bled. Her mother gave up their current position, took off her undies, and sat on Bob’s lap.
“Nobody believed they could exist until, in 2007, they found one ten million billion kilometers in diameter. That void, called the Big Fucking Void to not confuse it with the Bush Administration, was one billion light years across. 10 million billion kilometers without anything in it. No dirt. No water. No shit. Even Nirvana has a Buddha or two.
“I somehow find it easier to accept that God can make Something out of Nothing than he can make Nothing out of Something. No matter how lost you have ever been using IPhone Maps, you have never been ten million billion kilometers from the nearest sunlight.
“Did it become this big, or was it always this big? How big must Nothing grow until it becomes Something? How can nothing exist? If it’s nothing, then by definition it does not exist. Yet, Zen-like, it does. The Milky Way galaxy has 300 billion stars, yet this void is 10,000 times bigger. That’s a lot of nothing. Some things are better than nothing. Voids, apparently, are not.”
“Mama, show some titty,” Jasmine urged as those behind them whipped out camera phones.
“It would be convenient to write this off as a freak accident, a unique anomaly, except there are lots of voids. Millions, probably, although it’s hard to detect something that isn’t there. Unless it stars on reality TV.
“Maybe astronomers should specialize in studying absolutely fucking nothing. We can’t all be slackers. You can’t have a map of the universe, much less a Hitchhiker’s Guide, without noting the billion-light-year holes where time and freaking space literally do not exist. It is difficult to even imagine a place where Father Time and Mother Nature have not hooked up. Much less one big enough to contain 10,000 galaxies. After Congress, it is the biggest nothing in the universe. Maybe the Big Fucking Void is the undisclosed location where Vice President Cheney hid all those years. Even Hell had stuff — fire, brimstone, self-righteous sanctimonious hypocritical politicians. Perhaps the Big Fucking Void is surrounded by freaked out astronomy professors on one-way trips. Where else can you watch Something stop and Nothing begin? I just want to see the space-time continuum just stop continuing. Maybe this void is Heaven, since Heaven is where you go when you have nothing to do and eternity to do it in.”
That whore next to her pulled her top over her head, exposing her gorgeous new breasts for the cameras. Jasmine didn’t know whether to applaud her mother or ground her.
“The Ganymed Space Port will make space travel possible. And the Chimborazo Launcher makes the space port possible.
“The goal is to get payload into orbit as easily, safely, and cheaply as possible, but launch systems are 99 % rocket and only 1 % payload. Rockets need fuel to lift their payload, but also fuel to lift their fuel, which leads to diminishing returns. But what if you could leave the fuel and the propulsion system on the ground, and put your energy into moving just the payload?
“Frictionless maglev trains can go incredibly fast and don’t wear out. The track has no moving parts and uses electricity for power. Reaching orbit is a question of speed, not altitude. Anything that can be accelerated to 7.7 kilometers per second can reach orbit.”
Jasmine heard her mother huffing and puffing like she was trying to blow a house down. Annoyed, she kicked her ankles up on the seat in front of her, startling a nice older couple who apparently disapproved of sex in public.
“A maglev catapult, at a constant acceleration of 5 g’s, which is the most that an astronaut can tolerate with a pressurized G-suit, blood thinners, and a special seat, only needs to be 25 kilometers long to reach orbital velocity. That’s when we sent our first manned spaceship beyond Earth’s orbit. A few years and several spaceships later, we captured the largest near-Earth-object, Ganymed, and parked her in orbit to turn her into a space port.”
Jasmine saw the camera zoom in so she arched her back to raise her pussy as high as possible as James had his way with her.
“Some roller coasters, like the Fahrenheit at Pennsylvania’s Hershey Park, hit 4 g’s. Since we bought the 58 square kilometer Chimborazo National Park from the Ecuadorian government two decades ago, we have laid over one hundred kilometers of maglev track that accelerates at a constant speed of just 2 g’s to avoid internal injuries. The longer the track, the slower the constant acceleration needed, which means we can launch even the average healthy tourist into orbit. Or, in your case, rich honeymooners. It will be the longest two minute ride of your life. Until the ride down.
“By extending the launcher above the summit, capsules enter the atmosphere at nearly 11 kilometers up, bypassing two-thirds of the atmosphere. Imagine how easily you could hit home runs if the back fence was two-thirds closer.”
Thank goodness her mom was here to help James get his boxers down! James seemed stuck to her breast, so Jasmine pulled his lips to her neck. The prospect of scoring a hickey before millions of viewers excited her.
“Our tunnel inside the extinct volcano is not long since most of the launcher wraps around the national park. Japan’s Seikan Tunnel stretches 33 miles, the Eurotunnel 31 miles, and the record for a people-carrying tunnel goes to the 35 mile long Gotthard Base Tunnel under the Swiss Alps.
“The idea of using a maglev catapult is at least as old as the 1950s movie, When Worlds Collide. Arthur Clark described it in a book half a century ago. What is original is building a maglev launcher at the highest point on Earth.”
Jasmine feared her mother would orgasm first, so she started talking dirty to James to fuel his furnace.
“Mt. Everest is the highest mountain above sea level, but is not the highest point on Earth. Astronomers measure distance not from the Earth’s surface, but from Earth’s center. The Moon’s mean distance, for example, is 384,500 kilometers from the center of our planet. And because the Earth is fat in the middle, meaning it bulges around the equator, the mountain that rises farthest into the atmosphere is Chimborazo, the extinct volcano that you saw when you landed in Riobamba. Mt. Everest is 8.2 kilometers above sea level, while Chimbo is just 6.3 kilometers. But because our planet bulges around the equator, Chimbo rises over 10 kilometers into the atmosphere. Despite being 2,580 meters lower in elevation above sea level, Chimborazo is 2.168 kilometers closer to orbit than Everest. It’s on Wikipedia — look it up!”
Her first orgasm rose to the heavens. She never knew Morgan Freeman’s voice was so sexy. She hoped her seat didn’t smell like sex permanently as she soaked it.
“When you stand at its peak, you are almost in orbit. You are above so much of the atmosphere that when you look up you see black space instead of blue sky.
“And careful with this information. Locals call it ‘Chimbo,’ which should not be confused with ‘chimba,’ which is South American slang for pussy.
“We looked at Mt. Kilimanjaro at 5.9 kilometers above sea level, Mt. Kenya at 5.2, Margherita Peak at 5.2, and in Ecuador, Mt. Cotopaxi at 5.9 and Mt. Cayambe at 5.8 kilometers high. Chimbo worked best because it reaches farther into space, it’s right on the equator, and because its four-kilometer long caldera lets us extend the launcher another half a kilometer up. Digging up lets gravity take away most of the debris, and the volcano is already partially hollow inside.”
Jasmine heard her mother start to sing an orgasm and chimed in for the chorus. “Go, bitch, go!” That fucker, Bob, really had it going on. She would not mind sampling his platter, herself, although fucking her husband’s father may piss off her mother.
“Not only do we leave the fuel and propulsion system on the ground, but the amorphous metal capsules are very light, strong, and heat-resistant. Bypassing two-thirds of the atmosphere means a fraction of the heat for a fraction of the time, which saves literally tons of ablation shielding and lets us re-use the capsules thousands of times. The capsule will actually ride on top of a sled that has superconducting magnets. The sled will parachute after it separates out of the launch tube and the capsule itself will land on water to eliminate the need for heavy landing gear.”
The screen now showed several versions of the bullet-shaped capsule, for passengers, bulk cargo, water, pressurized gas, fertilizer, and heavy equipment. Her mother’s orgasm ended with a painful yelp as she tried to swallow her embarrassment.
“It costs 32 million joules, or 9 kilowatt-hours, to put a kilo into orbit — about 25 cents worth of electricity. We need a three gigawatts power supply and 50,000 kilowatt hours of electricity in all. The local utility can power it only at night, so we use a Toshiba nuclear battery for primary power. Although it cost $10 billion to complete, our operating costs should be just pennies per pound once we reach full capacity.
“The American government is our biggest customer. We designed plug-and-play satellites that use the same chassis, so we simply add whatever sensor module the customer wants. The U.S. bought one thousand satellites in part to deny those orbits to other nations, giving America not just space superiority, but space supremacy.”
Jasmine had sucked James off in the Gulfstream jet they flew in on, so he pounded her like a carpenter. She looked straight at the old man in the row ahead of her as he tried to score glimpses of her snatch as James pumped away. His bride-to-be finally caught on and smacked him like a boxer.
“America launches from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida because it’s our closest land to the equator. The closer to the equator, the least amount of energy to get into orbit. We only launch from Vandenberg in California for polar orbits. The equator moves faster than any other part of Earth, with respect to space, so all launches are also sent into the east to take advantage of Earth’s rotational energy.
“Orbital velocity is 7.7 kilometers per second, or 27,720 kilometers an hour. A launcher must reach that speed to get into orbit. Anything slower is like swimming 99 % across a lake, only to drown within sight of shore. Yet, at that speed, the atmosphere is a brick wall a dozen miles thick, whereas we want as thin a wall as possible.”
Someone behind her moaned, which ticked Jasmine off. Couldn’t she have peace and quiet while she got laid in the theater? Is that really too much to ask? Oh, it sounded like just a blowjob. She was okay with that. From the location, it was probably either the Russians or the Chinese.
“Space is only fifty miles away. Many Americans drive more than that to work. Traveling up is so hard because half of the atmosphere is compressed into the bottom 5.6 kilometers. The lower atmosphere is four times thicker than the upper atmosphere. Atmospheric density falls exponentially with height. 100 kilometers above sea level has only one-millionth the atmospheric pressure of sea level. So the higher we go, the thinner the atmospheric wall. The higher we launch, the less atmosphere to penetrate.
“The more atmosphere we must punch through, the greater the friction, the greater the pressure drag from the resulting sonic shock wave that forms in front of the launch vehicle, and the greater the parasitic drag and skin drag from air flowing over the vehicle body. Rockets launched near sea-level face compression from the shock wave that superheats the nose of the vehicle to about 54,000 degrees F. So we use ablating materials as heat shields, which literally melt away in carefully controlled layers like an onion, but protect the vehicle underneath. But heat shields are heavy, which increases costs and reduces payload.”
It was that old Japanese guy getting his prick blown! Jasmine arched her head to see that nice dude whispering to the red haired Eurasian whore he was apparently willing to marry.
“People wonder why we chose the largest near-Earth object, rather than a smaller one that would have been easier, cheaper, and faster to re-orbit. Well, size does matter. A small rock would have had little more gravity than the International Space Station.
“ Nothing works in zero gravity, including humans. We grow a few inches taller, our bodily fluids flow towards our head, our face and eyes get all puffy and our legs skinny, we lose calcium in our bones, our muscles atrophy, we get cardiovascular deconditioning, balance disorders, the toilets don’t flush without suction, we can’t take showers, we have to pee and poop in diapers, we can’t cook normal meals — we can’t even have sex without strapping our lover down. On his Mercury flight, Gordon Cooper’s condom broke, surrounding him with drops of pee in his tiny capsule. Try to concentrate in that environment!”
The Arab sheik behind her leaned forward with a camera phone. Jasmine smiled, even though the middle aged lady next to him smoldered in rage. Their seats leaned back so far that they put her head near his crotch.
“95 % of astronauts need medicine. I can’t think of a worse place to drug expensive workers than in space, where sudden decompression, which almost happened on Mir, can literally pop your eyes out. Vladimir Komarov lost power to his guidance computer, which gave him 26 hours to reflect upon his coming fiery death. Russian cosmonauts are forced to wear a ‘core temperature monitor,’ a penny-sized probe inserted up their butts. The toilet recycles urine into water, so the crew could die of thirst if the toilet breaks.
“No, zero-gravity sucks. Humans just can’t be productive wearing diapers and anal monitors. We need micro-gravity. The more massive the rock, the more gravity we enjoy, so we chose the largest rock that crosses Earth’s orbit, and put it into a same highly eccentric orbit as satellite Vela 1A. 60 % of Americans would pay a year’s salary to get into space. With four trillion tons of mass, people could live years on Ganymed using heavy boots and clothes to minimize loss of muscle mass.”
The Japanese man yelped in joy like he scored a goal as he came into his wife. Those around him cheered.
“The maglev launcher here sends us to Ganymed. The maglev there will one day send us to the Moon, Mercury, and Mars. Launchers there will send us back. We haven’t landed on the Moon yet — no one has since 1972 — but once we have a maglev on their tallest mountain, we could probably go from Chimbo to the Moon, then return the very next day! At a constant acceleration of 2 g’s, over a few thousand kilometers of track, trips to Mars or Mercury would only take a few weeks instead of several months.”
“James, can I suck off the sheik?” Jasmine asked.
He looked up, startled, his teeth glimmering like a vampire. He made eye contact with the other man, then shrugged his shoulders as he continued to bang his fiancee.
“Astronomers have always wanted to put scopes on the Moon. The Moon has no atmosphere to obscure telescopes, and it provides a steady platform since it’s seismically dead. Because the Moon rotates only once every 28 days, it has 28 more days to collect light, meaning it could see 28 times better or farther by focusing on a distant object for 28 times as long. So we want thousands of optical telescopes, all focusing for long periods at specific objects. And because of the light gravity, we could build telescopes five times heavier than the heaviest on Earth.
“Because it lacks an atmosphere, the Moon is much better for infrared, near-infrared, cosmic-ray, x-ray, gamma-ray, radio-wave, and ultraviolet astronomy. We could put scopes in permanently shadowed craters, each studying a narrow range of the infrared spectrum. The constant cold gives infrared scopes better resolution. Interferonomy scopes would work best in the submillimeter spectrum, which doesn’t work well on Earth because of the water vapor in our atmosphere. And very low frequency radio waves are blocked by our ionosphere, so we’re essentially blind at that range of the spectrum. And the only place in the galaxy permanently shielded from our radio waves is the lunar far side, so that is where we must put our radio telescopes.”
Jasmine worked the guy’s robe off, licking her lips. She found it bushier than she liked, but was too horny to waste time trying to find a replacement. Although she wished that hunky Russian sat closer.
“We should maximize interferonomy scopes, where one device combines the light from several telescopes, all focused on one single distant object. The power of a single telescope in resolving detail is proportional to its diameter, while the resolving power of an array of telescopes is proportional to the diameter of the array. In other words, instead of one huge telescope, it’s better to have several smaller telescopes working together. So we want thousands of scopes, organized into hundreds of interferonomy arrays, all computer controlled. Only amateurs still eyeball space anymore. Then we map every planet within 100 light years.
“The best interferonomy arrays operate in the range of X-rays because its short wavelengths allow for shorter baselines, which are more practical than visible light systems. X-ray is the best band for high resolution imaging, and a good lunar X-ray interferometry scope could detect something the size of a car at the center of our galaxy.”
Jasmine grabbed the stranger by the balls and pulled him close so she could get his cock into her mouth. He groaned, surprisingly, a lot like her mother.
“As we excavate the Ganymed asteroid to turn it into a fully functional space port, our small fleet of spaceships are slowly pushing the largest type-M metallic asteroid that crosses our orbit into a Lagrange point sixty degrees behind Earth. We call it The Jackpot because we estimate the value of its precious metals at over $40 trillion. Jupiter has many asteroids that orbit sixty degrees before and behind it, and Mars has one called 1990 MB. Because they are so stable, we hope to fill all five of Earth’s Lagrange points with valuable asteroids.”
Jasmine had never sucked a smelly dick before and felt conflicted about it. On the one hand, it stank like a pussy after a long jog but, on the other, the very stench made her feel that much naughtier.
“Our growing constellation of communications and remote-sensing satellites we call OmniNet. With OmniNet we can dominate Internet access, phone, radio, TV, movies-on-demand, and gaming.
“Imagine super-fast global wireless satellite services that communicate via the whole spectrum: short-range VHF and UHF, long-range HF, CB, AM/FM, SSB, and L-band. The higher the frequency, the greater the content-carrying capacity. Imagine everyone always wired, even in Siberia, the Congo, or Antarctica. Every ship and plane.
Instead of expensive billing software, we’ll restrict it to pre-pay monthly plans and automatic debits that will save us a fortune sending out bills and processing checks. 80 % of customer service calls are billing related, but we will have no unpaid bills and thus no collections. To maximize subscribers and minimizing switching, we will give away the phones, yet charge a $150 cancellation fee.”
The Arab mumbled into his beard as he fucked Jasmine’s face like an animal. James couldn’t help but stare at the smallish dick plowing into his fiancee’s mouth. It both enthralled and repulsed him. When the guy started yelling in Arabic, bucking his hips as he pumped Jasmine with cum, James found himself spurting semen into her other hole. His back actually hurt from pounding her for so long, but it was so worth it.
“Mars will be worth a thousand times more after we terraform it. Mars is relatively close, has a Goldilocks orbit, the right axial tilt to make seasons, an Earth-like day, and literally oceans of water buried under its surface. However, Mars is only half the size of Earth and has only a third of the surface area.
“Mars is too inhospitable for humans as it is. Constant radiation nukes the surface. The temperature extremes between day and night make long distance travel very dangerous. And the talcum powder-like dust will get into your eyes, nose, ears, throat, anus, food, clothes, suits, equipment, and vehicles. Nothing that depends on grease, oils, sealants, gears, or lubricants would last, including our eyes. Our lungs could fill up with the stuff. Even a tiny tear in a suit would kill you on the Martian surface. Your exposed blood would literally boil away.”
Jasmine gargled the mouthful of cum to judge its flavor. It seemed rude to spit it out, so she swallowed, vowing to never suck an Arab prince off again. It tasted too tangy, like when Panda Express pours too much sauce on their orange chicken.
“And we couldn’t grow anything because Mars has no soil. As hydrogen leaked out of the atmosphere into space, the remaining oxygen literally rusted the planet, creating super-oxidant dirt. We need to cover the entire surface with leafy plants and trees to scrub the atmosphere of CO2, but can’t without soil. Because dead dirt covers the surface, we must bury Mars under organics.
“The gravity is too weak to hold hydrogen, which leaks into space, which is why Mars has no liquid surface water. Increasing its mass increases its gravity, which better retains hydrogen. Importing mass also thickens the atmosphere and warms up the freezing planet.
“We want to optimize Mars for human habitation. Millions of people will not move to Mars if every day is a brutal, life-or-death ordeal. We can triple the size of Mars by importing asteroids. The nearby Main Asteroid Belt has over a million asteroids larger than 1 kilometer and 200 larger than 100 kilometers. The farther Kuiper Belt has 70,000 objects larger than 100 kilometers. Each ship could carry dozens of fusion mass drivers to push several asteroids in the right direction.”
James looked down at Jasmine in awe. It was like watching a T-rex in the wild. He never knew how empty his life was without her, so when she pulled his head down, he kissed her.
“Bulking up Mars will solve several other problems, besides burying the ultra-fine dust and dead soil under a few thousand kilometers of asteroid regolith. First, thickening the atmosphere with trillions of cubic meters of gases protects us from deadly cosmic radiation, even while it warms the planet up by retaining the Sun’s heat. Mars now is like Antarctica, except colder, dryer, windier, and the nearest help is 70 million kilometers away.
“The atmospheric pressure is now so low that few plants could live on the surface. Humans need a minimum density of 100 millibars and Mars at ‘sea-level’ only has 6. Greater air pressure means if you cut yourself, you put on a Band-Aid instead of watching in agony as your blood boils away.
“It would also reduce temperature extremes. Temperatures on Mars fluctuate more in a day than on Earth in a year. It can be 60 degrees F in the day and -100 that very night. Also, raising the mean temperature above freezing would melt the millions of square kilometers of permafrost lying under the surface, and create new lakes, rivers, and seas via rainfall, which would also help settle the millions of cubic kilometers of new regolith.”
His head snapped back at the taste of another man’s sperm. He remembered his black teammates tasting so much better. The Arab laughed arrogantly, waving his penis at him like a little boy groping a garden hose. Then a drop fell off the tip and sank into his eye. It hurt so bad that James howled in pain as he fell to the floor in agony.
“Bulking up the atmosphere would also add needed oxygen, while diluting the poisonous carbon dioxide. Mars now only has. 2 % oxygen, and we need several percent. The only way to get that is by direct importation via comets and ice-teroids. While primitive plants can get by without it, advanced plants need about 1 millibar and humans need 120. Afterwards, we could walk around Mars in t-shirts and shorts while breathing through a simple CO2 filter mask without hauling around heavy oxygen tanks.
“The solution to all of these challenges is bulking up the planet as much as possible, as fast as possible. Scientists will want to study Mars before we bury it, so we quickly thicken the atmosphere by crashing its moons and the largest nearby asteroids and comets into the poles or into deep areas of permafrost. Phobos has three trillion tons and Deimos another two trillion tons of frozen water and other volatiles. Crashing Phobos into the larger South Pole and Deimos over the smaller North Pole would vaporize millions of tons of ice, doubling its atmospheric mass.
“Comets average 60 % water by weight, and over one hundred short period comets approach Mars’ orbit. We could simply nudge the comets at perihelion — when they are closest to the Sun — to strike deep permafrost. This would quickly give Mars enough atmosphere to shield us from deadly radiation, allow us to walk around without pressure suits, warm the mean temperature above freezing, and allow liquid surface water.”
Gina tapped Jasmine and motioned to switch places. Gina got up and, while Bob laid there watching the movie, Jasmine climbed on board, but with her back to Bob.
“Tripling the size of Mars could double its gravity from 38 % of Earth’s to roughly 75 %, which will be great news for the elderly. Gravity and ultraviolet rays are the two main causes of wrinkles, and sunlight is only half as strong on Mars. Like on the Moon, metallic asteroids on the surface gives us quadrillions of dollars worth of metals.
“Afterwards we seed the surface with bacteria, fungi, lichens, algae, and self-composting plants. As the atmospheric pressure increases, we add more complex self-composting plants, mosses, grasses, bushes, and trees.”
Through his burning eye, James watched his fiancee prepare to fuck his father with her mother’s help.
“Botanists once believed that only soil microbes could convert organic nitrogen into the nitrates and nitrites that plants need, but since have discovered 15 self-composting plant species that generate nitrates and nitrites in their tissues when they die. We can therefore create soil by cultivating self-composting plants. We will also need soil and fertilizer factories on Mars, as well as millions of animals for their manure — from rabbits and rodents to farm animals to buffalo. Maybe, one day, we could clone dinosaurs. One super-sauropod has more meat than 200,000 chickens, and would cost less to raise.”
Bracing her hands on the seat in front of her helped Jasmine balance herself as she sank onto her father-in-law’s hard cock. Bob probably assumed that Gina simply switched positions by the way he casually put his hands on her waist to steady her.
“80 % of Earth is covered by liquid or frozen water. Mars would be best served by reversing that ratio. Waterways are low-friction mediums that are far cheaper to transport goods than land or air. We should optimize the waterways to navigate as much of the planet as possible to boost trade and settlement. What we don’t want is huge inland continents like Africa with few navigable rivers.
“We need millions of young, healthy workers to terraform the surface and grow trillions of leafy carbon dioxide-eating trees, lumbar trees, and fruit trees. The tallest trees on Earth are almost 400 feet high, so trees on Mars may reach an amazing 600 feet.
“Mars today has scientific, but no economic, value because no one can live there independently. In contrast, an optimized Mars may be worth $100 quadrillion. And if we are the only ones who can send people to Mars, then we could send only those people we want. Like genetically screened, westernized English speakers. We could have one global government, with one dollar-based economy, without violent crime, poverty, unemployment, or wars.”
Once she accommodated the length, Jasmine flopped her hips up and down like a dancer on American Idol. Few women get so much speed along with so much depth. She was in heaven!
“Once we have enough fusion spaceships, we eventually want to use them as mass thrusters to re-orbit Mercury equidistant between Venus and Earth. We can start pushing Mercury just after dawn on its equator, when Mercury is farthest from the Sun, though the temperature may be 300 degrees below zero. By midmorning, 22 Earth days later, the temperature will have risen to 80 degrees. The trick is to move Mercury far enough away from the Sun because at noon, 44 Earth days from dawn, the temperature rises to 800 degrees, which melts most astronauts.
“Then we give it an atmosphere by importing comets and presto! — a habitable planet. People may prefer to live on Mercury because Mars will retain a carbon dioxide atmosphere that requires wearing masks, while Mercury could have an ideal atmosphere and gravity if we do it right.”
Gina sat in Jasmine’s chair and opened her legs to ventilate her pussy. James, at her feet spitting out the taste of jism, suddenly found something to replace the bitter taste in his mouth.
“Later, to maximize the habitability of the solar system, we could re-orbit every world larger than Ceres into Goldilocks orbits — from Venus to just past Mars — so that humanity could grow to over one hundred billion people.
“There are 14 moons larger than 1000 kilometers: Titan at 5150 kilometers, Ganymede at 5262, Callisto at 4821, Io at 3643, Europa at 3122, Tritan at 2700, Titania at 1578, Rhea at 1528, Oberon at 1523, Iapetus at 1436, Umbriel at 1170, Ariel at 1162, Dionel at 1120, and Tethys at 1072 kilometers. The Kuiper Belt dwarf planet Eris is about 2400 meters, Pluto 2300 kilometers, Makemake 1400 kilometers, Haumea 1300 kilometers, and the asteroid Ceres 950 kilometers. As the need arises, they could be bulked up large enough to retain an atmosphere and provide decent gravity using the millions of rocks in the Main Asteroid Belt. Imagine 100 billion people living on twenty worlds between Venus and Mars.”
James dove his head into Gina’s pussy like a man wandering in the desert too long. He lapped her up like a doggy, searching for anything stronger than the taste of sperm. She, naturally, wanted him to focus on her clit, but instead he went in the opposite direction.
“We would like to bulk up Ceres to several times its current size, so it can retain an atmosphere, to give Venus a moon where it would block most of the Sun’s rays. About a million kilometers from Venus, L1 is a gravitationally stable orbit that would shade the planet. Venus is now so hot that it could melt lead. Once we block 99 % of the sunlight striking the surface, up to one quadrillion tons of atmospheric carbon dioxide will cool enough to rain down and eventually turn solid. We bury that carbon dioxide with regolith by soft-landing small asteroids, and wet the atmosphere by crashing comets and ice-teroids into the atmosphere. Meanwhile, on Ceres, we install enough solar and fusion power plants to make bulk antimatter affordable enough for interstellar travel.
“With affordable bulk anti-matter, we could use our maglev catapults to slingshot an anti-matter spaceship around Jupiter, our most massive planet, then slingshot it around the Sun to get it above half the speed of light on its way the nearest habitable star system. If we could get the cost down, we could send manned missions systematically to the closest habitable planets while firing unmanned probes to the uninhabitable ones.”
Curious more than horny, Gina lifted her ass and James stuck his tongue in her anus. Not just around the rim, but as deeply as he could physically insert it. Which tickled Gina like hell. Not even vibrators made her feel that way.
But he heard Jasmine scream in another incredible orgasm, so he looked up in time to see his father open his eyes in shock at who was riding his pony. He couldn’t believe it. Bob rubbed his eyes with both hands, only to discover it didn’t change who was fucking him. Then he saw his son licking the shit out of his girlfriend to get the taste of cum out of his mouth. He finally turned to Gina, his son’s head still between her legs, and said an investor’s greatest compliment:
“You are the best investment I have ever made.”
James wanted to protest, to argue that he turned out pretty good, too, but Gina broke into tears of joy and roughly knocked her daughter off his cock to embrace him.
“I love you so much,” she said, staring into his eyes. “Now cum inside me before this movie ends.”
When the movie did end, and the lights turned on, everyone gave the girls a standing ovation. I’m finally dating the hottest girl in school, James realized.