Mar 13, 2019

The biochemist who leapt through time

When Magdalena Oviedo entered her room after an exhausting day in the photosynthesis lab, she found her cat, Dorothy, sleeping placidly on her bed. Under the cat there was an envelope. Magdalena gently picked Dorothy up to retrieve the envelope, awakening her. The envelope was unusually warm, but not uncomfortably so. Inside the unmarked envelope she found a white page not made of paper but of something like plastic. The page itself was emitting heat.

This is a time machine, it can only access the future. Enter travel time in number of years from the present. Magdalena read as she appreciated the futuristic shiny blue font.

The page had a numeric keypad printed on it and above it a box with a bright blinking cursor.

“What bollocks is this,” was Magadelna’s first thought; then, she admitted to herself that it was actually rather strange. She was too tired to do anything about it, so she discarded the page onto the bed and went to the kitchen to make herself some coffee. Dorothy thought that the white page certainly looked suspicious and decided to inspect it more closely. She started tapping rapidly over the blinking cursor with both paws to assess its response to stimulus and unintentionally typed: 3,221,222,332. Suddenly, the entire house disappeared and both Magdalena and Dorothy found themselves standing in a sandy desert. They saw dark brown sand extending for kilometres in every direction. A sea of magma was visible in the distance and a massive red sun occupied half of the sky. They did not have enough time to process this because Magdalena’s clothes and Dorothy’s fur self-ignited and the unbearable pain of burning flesh quickly ended their lives.

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