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Bishop, I’d be happy to show you around. Your father-in-law said you have a professional interest in this sort of thing.”
    Terri was considering the size and scope of the laboratory as she examined her surroundings. “I’d love to,” she said with a winning smile.
    “Good. Come with me,” Dr. Maddow said as he turned to lead her away.
    Keith was making an appraisal of the man they were just introduced to when his father motioned for them to move along. He was friendly enough in his manner, but his eyes told another story. They were not what one would refer to as ‘evil,’ but they were cold and calculating, even while his overall demeanor was friendly. He did not seem the type to be happy about giving a private tour to a stranger, an unimportant one at that, but then again, maybe it was asked as a favor by his father.
    “Why don’t we go back to my office? I have a number of things to talk to you about in private,” his father said.
    “Okay dad,” Keith said as his thoughts were once again interrupted. His father was never an obvious person, which is why Keith was patient enough to know that for whatever reason he was brought here today, it would only be revealed when his father was ready to do so.
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     Friday 3:57pm
     When they were back in his office, no one else was around. They went into a small anteroom and his father closed the door. After Keith took a seat, his father went to a small table holding a laptop computer. He touched the keypad, which brought the computer back to life. He picked up a small remote control device, and walked back and sat next to his son. In the manner of an accomplished orator, he began the slide program.    
    “Ten months ago this anomaly was discovered by a Spanish astronomer by the name of Dr. Rosa Alves. She, and her staff, calculated the trajectory of this anomaly. It was of no significance at the time, other than the discovery itself. When she found the anomaly once again, six months later,” he said as he progressively went through a number of slides on the power point presentation, “it was not where it was projected to be.”
    “Now here is the problem. The size and speed of the anomaly was underestimated, possibly because it wasn’t that important, or more probably because they were limited to best guess information. While the size and speed difference wasn’t a major concern, what became a concern was the change in flight path,” he said as he moved onto another slide, which displayed a small bright object at the bottom left hand corner of the screen.
    “What you see there, and here,” he said as he continued on to other slides, “Is our sun. Our nation’s most respected scientists and those of other nations, all concur on a trajectory that is within one-hundred miles from the sun, to possibly colliding with the sun itself. Since the sun is not solid like the earth, the results of an impact, or even anything closer to the one-hundred mile projection, will cause catastrophic conditions here on the earth.”
    He advanced the slides forward showing simulated scenes resulting in such an impact. “In any event, the earth as we know it will no longer exist within a few days' time. Best estimates are less than a twenty percent initial survival rate among all living creatures in the first stages, followed by predictions of less than five percent for any long term survival.” He got up from his seat, placed the remote device back on the table, and closed the top of the computer screen. He turned to his son in anticipation of his response.
    “You’re serious,” he said already knowing the answer. While his nature was to be light hearted in relation to just about anything, and humorous when he could be, his father was not.
    “Deadly serious.”
    “That is what all of those trucks, and all this supposed exercise is about?”
    “We have been preparing and planning for this for the last four months. This is just the final phase.”
    “Who all knows about