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Space, Bubbles and Me

by A S K
DAY 1. Boing a boing-bo! ng -being. I like my uku tete It sounds good and does whatever 1 tell ft to do — and it keeps me company, something which I am in dire need of. At this very moment. I am alone, in Space, in what is laughably my home. What can I do? Fate, that troublesome little monster that cannot be controlled, has marooned me on a spaceborne rescue bubble
Heard that? Laughably Go ahead Laugh Laugh! Make a pig out of yourself. Most crea tures haven t been tortured like me. They don t know what living in a rescue bubble is Hkc How many people have been stranded, sofo. In a bubble? We are talking about Space here, not oceans Oceans are only a footstep across compared with the vastness of Space — It would take quite a number of footsteps to cross Space.
I should have taken the Windblower I might not have fallen Into this particular predicament. But. but. but... trouble always did have a tendency of dogging my footsteps
I can t remember much, the details are rather blurry, like an out-of-focua picture which haan t been processed well. But what 1 can say la. perhaps, sufficient. I was travelling in the Jona Danel from Earth to my home planet. Qualtor I was visiting Earth to do some research which I could not do electronically from Quallor
Anyway, I was dozing lightly tn my seat, when there was an explosion. I do not know what caused It but I can only guess Maybe the stardrive blew up. or »ome terrorists decided to
have some fun It doesn’t matter anymore. I mean, who cares? Not you. not me. not anyone else.
In any case, that noise was so loud, I woke up, realty annoyed How dare anyone bother me in my sleep? Doesn’t anybody know that it's against the law to wake me up? Not even food was that Impor tant. I decided to call the stewardess and ask her what that was about But no sooner had I thought these thoughts did I black out several very.
very short momenta later Some time later — I dent know how long — I woke up somewhere. And guess where that somewhere was?
I suppose It was for the best. The frog-bmined stooges who constituted the crew of the Jona Danel decided that the only way to save me — and other passenger*. I'm sure — was to sluff me Into a rescue bubble. I m not objecting to their altruism, but could they not have stuffed someone else with me?
Oh well. Might as well make the best of it. But don't get the Idea that 1'11 enjoy myself I won't. I thrive on companionship
The floor of my lifeboat puter, an environment controller unit and some other t-dont-know-whar units, a recorder — which Im using now — a rescue beacon, mat tresses - wowt The guys who designed thia thing managed to fit tn a toilet, tool
By the way. if I didn t say so already. Im recording this on the built-in recorder But that s only logic, Isn t it? ft doesn t take someone with a degree In anything to know that Even someone aa stupid as my kid brother could have figured that out. Even someone stupider, like my relatively muscle bound but brain-deficient nemesis from way back in grade school could have reck oned that.
Of course, having a Masters in Nanomechanics like me wouldn't hurt, would It?
The floor is enclosed in a plastic bubble which is Impenetrable unless it is surrounded by an atmosphere which Is suitable for human life and enough pressure io prevent that life from exploding
That doesn t make much sense, does it? Said another way. the plastic bubble cannot be broken when in Space, people can leave or enter the bubble only when the envl ronment outside the bubble has oxygen, and only breath able gases, and the atmospheric pressure is high enough to keep a human In one piece
I'm real tired now. so I might aa well log off. To be continued... snore
to becuntinued