Time+for+the+Stars



The earth had become to overpopulated. An organization called The Long Range Foundation discovered a way to make space travel possible across the milky way galaxy. Humans had already populated this entire solar system and were now in need of more room. The population of earth was close to 5,000,000,000. The only way problem with the long range space travel was communicating the findings back to Earth. That's where the main character, Tom, comes in. He is a twin. the LRF had discovered that there are certain people, usually twins who are able to telepathically communicate at a rate faster than the speed of light. This became a problem later. The spaceships were able to communicate back to earth by one of the twins going into space and the other remaining on earth. Although a problem still arose when the ships approached the spped of light, or boosted. If something were to approach the speed of light, time would move more slowly for it than the rest of the world. The thing moving close to the speed of light would age extremely slowly when compared to everything else. The communication between the ships and earth was cut off when the ships boosted because their tele-partners we now thinking far too quickly and they were thinking far too slowly for communication to be possible. The LRF fixes this situation later using mind slowing hypnosis for the partners on earth. The space ships are in search of earth-like planets that are suitable for human life. They find one, before catastrophe strikes, in whick the majority of the crew and ship members are killed by extra terrestrials. The ship, is rescued by a new kind of ship from earth that is capable of traveling much faster than there ancestor ships. The new technology allows for the search of earth-like planets to be much easier and more efficient and the population is no longer a problem. New planets are found and colonized each day. Tom comes home after close to 70 years. After a long time in space, he is no longer able to communicate with his twin brother Pat, but he finds he is able to speak with his niece and her daughter and his niece's daughter's daughter. When he comes home he is close to the age of his great great niece. He has fallen in love with her throughout their long distance telepathic relationship and marries her; his own brother's great granddaughter.
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This cover ilustration depicts the scene in which the majority of the crew is killed by extra terrestrials. But their were about 200 people on board originally.

The upward expansion of people once the earthly outward expansion has reached it max...The technology of colonizing the sky above our current cities by simply building taller and taller buildings is predicted to occur before the space expansion of man...not to mention all the flying cars.