Exploding Sun (Solar Storm) (Exploding Sun)

Authorities in Australia report that

the solar storm electromagnetic pulse overloaded power stations

all along Australia's eastern coast.

Though the storm occurerd some hours after sundown local time,

the high energy burst was apparently diverted

around the curvature of the earth

to strike Sydney after dark.

The young woman was killed instantly.

Call an ambulance!

Now the intensity and effect of this solar storm

is reminisant of the geomagnetic storm

that was a result of a cordal mass eject on March 9th 1989,

that knocked out power in the Canadian province of Quebec.

That storm originated on earth

with extremely intense aurora's at both poles that were visible as

Really? -Uh huh

Well l know we're going through a peak in the solar cycle,

but it generated a storm.

Does this change anything for the flight tomorrow?

l don't think so.

Hum

Go home.

Go to sleep. l need you tomorrow.

You're on launch diagnostic systems and fuel disbursement back ups.

l need you.

When you talk like that, it really turns me on.

So come on, let's just go back to your place and order some Chinese.

We just take.

Fine, let's just go back to your place and do more tech talk

Denise.

l know, l'm too young, l could get hurt, yadda, yadda, yadda.

Listen. l told you when we started working together,

you don't want to hang out with me. Ok.

You remember that.

Ya. l thought you were just being mysterious.

How was l supposed to know you were incapable of lying?

l told you that, too.

Yes. You did.You told me that. Yes.

Do you know

that biologically that two people can tell a lot from each other

by the transfer of genetic information that occurs from kissing.

lt's a miracle of Darwinian selection.

What's my DNA telling you right now?

That uh, one day l'm going to get to you

and when l do you're going to be in big trouble.

Ok. Won't be the first time a kiss got me in trouble.

Thanks

Whoa. Slow down. Don't you think we're moving a little fast?

No, and now kiss me.

No. Hey it's only been our third date.

You want a fourth one? Kiss me.

We don't have a lot of time.

Uh, until what?

What the hell!

Tempo is recovered.

Returning to castle.

Tempo? l thought you told me your name was Lara Smith?

Miss Mathany, please come with us.

Mathany? Lara Mathany?

l've been dating the president's daughter?

Ugh! Ugh!

Awsome!

Making out with some boy in the back seat of car.

Really?

Nothing happened.

Hey, you just slipped your secrect service detail and you just ran off.

do you even realize the risk you put yourself at?

l was being discrete.

You're the president's daughter.

You're held to a higher standard.

l didn't ask for any of that. l want a normal life.

Well you can have one in a year.

Five if l'm re-elected.

We'll talk about your behaviour when l get back.

Wish me luck.

Ya. Good luck on your publicity stunt.

Hey! Hey!

lt's ok. Just leave her.

Were you like that at sixteen?

Worse. You're sure this is going to be safe?

Roebling's a genious.

He's poached the best minds from NASA.

This program better funded than any other government agency.

l'd go in a second if l could.

l know.

Well, l'll see you Thursday.

l don't think l hold you enough.

so hold me now.

Well l am really excited for you and, no l really am.

Ya, no l am. Really, ya.

Ya, l think he's just trying to make up for the G force test

he put me through.

Well l think that's what you get

when you're the oldest member of the group, right?

does your back still hurt?

Uh, now it's my shoulder.

Um, one second. Can you wait? Paul?

Ya?

Can you just, um, take care of theswe guys?

Sure. Ya.

You know, um, if you think it's too much for you, you could pull out.

No way. We both know what the camp runs on.

Food, used clothing donations.

Publicity.

And this little trip of mine is going to raise awareness

for our work to new heights. Litterally.

Just come back soon, prefereably in one piece. Hmm.

Did you hear from JJ?

No. No, l thought he'd at least call and wish me luck.

Wow.

Mr. Elias?

l gotta go. l'll call when l'm back.

OK.

Good morning everyone.

Morning

My name is Peter Roebling,

and l want to welcome you to this the most exciting day of,

well the most exciting day of all our lives.

Today marks the beginning of a new era in civillian space flight.

No longer will man flights belong excluslively to governments

or special interests.

As of today, space belongs to the people.

Ya!

Now l would like to introduce Dr. Craig Bakus,

formerly a senior engineer with NASA

but now Roebling Spaceport's designer and head engineer.

He's going to talk you through today's flight.

Thank you Peter and thank you all

for coming out today and good morning.

The Roebling Clipper is without a doubt

the most advanced civillian aircraft ever built.

lt's designed to take off and fly just like a regular airplane

but also to be able to leave and re enter the earth's atmosphere.

Taking off from our runway just outside here

command pilot Fiona Henslaw.

Let's give her a hand. Thank you.

she'll take the Clipper up to an altitude of 50,000 feet.

And from there she'll fire a rocket,

that will take her and the Clipper up to seventy miles above the earth's surface.

Hey, Jeff Gustas, WLDQ Network.

Hi Jeff.

Craig, is this the scalar drive we've been hearing about?

Ah, no. lt's not the scalar drive, it's a special hybrid,

designed to get us into low orbit.

And once we are in low orbit we'd fire the scalar drive.

John Davis CNJ News.

Can you tell us the difference betwween a scalar drive

and a regular rocket engine?

That's a good question.

Well a regular rocket engine burns fuel.

So no fuel, no prepulsion,

but the scalar drive uses solar radiation.

And there's plenty of that in out in space.

Let me tell ya.

Think of the scalar drive a little bit like a music amplifier,

but instead of making your neighbor's tunes louder,

what is does is that

it takes the energy from radiation and it amps that up.

Take bad music put it into an amplifier and you get a headache,

take solar radiation,

you put it into the scalar drive and you get massive exceleration.

Cindy Powers, NTX News.

How fast are you talking about?

One thousand three hundred miles a minute.

Which is about one ten thousanth of the speed of light. And that's a ...

well that's ah pretty damn fast. lsn't it?

The trip around the moon

and back today should take just under seven hours.

Dr. Bakus. ls scalar technology safe?

lt's about as safe as your drive out here today Jeff. Maybe safer.

Thank you Dr. Bakus.

Thank you. -Well done.

Joan? She just walked in.

Ahh family? Parents?

l don't know.

Nourhan

Let's get her to medical. Just make sure she's ok.

What's your update?

We get a ton of rice in a couple of days but it's crap quality.

Ugh. l really don't care.

Just so long as they bring in the water purification tablets.

Ah, they're gone.

Mehrzad's men had them hijacked off the aid supply trucks.

High energy biscuits too.

Did you text him? Can we set up a Skype call?

lt's really hard to save a thousand of his starving people

while he's stealing our supplies.

l guess if you're a war lord selling aid supplies on the black market

you don't care about killing off a few of your countrymen.

Clearly. Just wish he'd steal the crap he wants.

Ladies and gentlemen, please join with me

and help welcome a true legend of the US Spae Program,

Commander Don Wincroft.

Did you know Wincroft was coming?

Are you kidding me?

On a pissed off scale of 1 to 10?

Nineteen. -Ok.

Thank you. Thank you. Good morning everyone.

A special good morning to you our civillian astronauts.

ln a few hours they will do what most people only dream of.