and his crew. “My hat goes off to David Ashton, Roger Dorn, Kevin Haugen, Warren Baker and Laura Ashton who is the heart and soul of this team. I wish to acknowledge to all of you here tonight that this group along with the rest of the crew on the Excalibur, sacrificed nine years of their lives to make it possible for each of us to continue to live in this nation without worrying about a shortage of oil. They have also been part of a team that for the first time traveled faster than light. Their journey took them over two hundred light years distance and in all estimations their mission was a complete success.” The president’s tone changed to a somber note, “We remember the sacrifice of Gladys Ashton, Thomas White, and Annette White who died while attempting to accomplish that mission.”
After dinner, the president waited patiently for the room to clear and allow the secret service detail to secure the room. He asked all to be seated and began, “You members of my staff and congressmen have been wondering, I’m sure, what I’ve been talking about. What’s this, you wonder, about an oil shortage? And you, the crew from the Excalibur have an impressive technological advancement to share in regard to time travel.”
David protested, “But sir, you couldn’t know about that!”
“I know, but I do! I have appointed you, David, to be the project manager to build that time machine Roger has developed. You see the trouble with time machines is that once they’ve been used, you never know whether you are in the past or the present. Roger, your theories and time machine worked to perfection and we have eliminated the oil shortage problem. Please, stay with me on this for a moment. You congressmen are living in a different dimension of the future than you, the crew of the Excalibur, or maybe it’s all one and the same. I don’t know, but your future has been secured. I say that, but it will only be secured if we do the same thing we are doing in that other dimension of time, if there is another dimension. That’s why you distinguished members of congress are here.”
He had their attention and everyone was listening with awe and wonder, “Let me back up a moment. Nine years ago, President Gardiner sent David and his crew deep into the Milky Way to get as much oil as they could possibly bring back in their starship. President Gardiner did that because the world as he knew it was running out of oil, and he didn’t have any other choice. You may ask why we didn’t know about that. Because, in our dimension of time, that is no longer the case because David and his crew were successful. They went far beyond what we asked of them and invented a time machine which had, with further development, the ability to go back in time five hundred years and make it possible for our ancestors to conserve oil so we would have an abundance today. That time machine has not been built yet, but it did go back and was successful!”
Senator Young threw up his hands in exasperation, “Sir, you’re not making any sense, if something has not been built then it couldn’t do what you say it did!”
The president continued, “President Gardiner, in the present dimension, acted for a different reason than he did originally, but the result was the same and the crew of the Excalibur didn’t know the difference. I am acting the same as I did in the original dimension, but with a different motivation because now I have the benefit of hind sight. I know how the mission was accomplished and we will do it again just as we did before, if there is a before, even when we have no awareness of the other dimension of time. I have invited you members of congress who hold key positions on the finance committees, here tonight to present a formal request to fund a top secret mission, which we will call the Manhattan II Project. The projected cost to build the Manhattan, a time ship to go back to the twentieth century is two hundred twenty-three
After dinner, the president waited patiently for the room to clear and allow the secret service detail to secure the room. He asked all to be seated and began, “You members of my staff and congressmen have been wondering, I’m sure, what I’ve been talking about. What’s this, you wonder, about an oil shortage? And you, the crew from the Excalibur have an impressive technological advancement to share in regard to time travel.”
David protested, “But sir, you couldn’t know about that!”
“I know, but I do! I have appointed you, David, to be the project manager to build that time machine Roger has developed. You see the trouble with time machines is that once they’ve been used, you never know whether you are in the past or the present. Roger, your theories and time machine worked to perfection and we have eliminated the oil shortage problem. Please, stay with me on this for a moment. You congressmen are living in a different dimension of the future than you, the crew of the Excalibur, or maybe it’s all one and the same. I don’t know, but your future has been secured. I say that, but it will only be secured if we do the same thing we are doing in that other dimension of time, if there is another dimension. That’s why you distinguished members of congress are here.”
He had their attention and everyone was listening with awe and wonder, “Let me back up a moment. Nine years ago, President Gardiner sent David and his crew deep into the Milky Way to get as much oil as they could possibly bring back in their starship. President Gardiner did that because the world as he knew it was running out of oil, and he didn’t have any other choice. You may ask why we didn’t know about that. Because, in our dimension of time, that is no longer the case because David and his crew were successful. They went far beyond what we asked of them and invented a time machine which had, with further development, the ability to go back in time five hundred years and make it possible for our ancestors to conserve oil so we would have an abundance today. That time machine has not been built yet, but it did go back and was successful!”
Senator Young threw up his hands in exasperation, “Sir, you’re not making any sense, if something has not been built then it couldn’t do what you say it did!”
The president continued, “President Gardiner, in the present dimension, acted for a different reason than he did originally, but the result was the same and the crew of the Excalibur didn’t know the difference. I am acting the same as I did in the original dimension, but with a different motivation because now I have the benefit of hind sight. I know how the mission was accomplished and we will do it again just as we did before, if there is a before, even when we have no awareness of the other dimension of time. I have invited you members of congress who hold key positions on the finance committees, here tonight to present a formal request to fund a top secret mission, which we will call the Manhattan II Project. The projected cost to build the Manhattan, a time ship to go back to the twentieth century is two hundred twenty-three
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