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Posted by: _____ January 12, 2012

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Thanks for reading.Looks like mommentum is slow but that doesnt bother me. In northern hemisphere its cold.may be ppl are not ready for exciting red (wink wink). Yes I am a student of science. My job forces me to learn many fields within science and that includes Astronomy.

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I admit that introduction may not be that blockbuster. But I promise, depending upon how you view the subjects included in the tilte, more interesting read.

Here goes the second part

Continued from above...

After two days…. debriefing in situation room

Captain: What is the security situation? How aggressive are different life forms?

Commander: Captain, the dinosaur types of animals which are all vegetarian in our planet are both carnivorous and herbivorous here. They are huge, fast and pose a great danger to us in this planet.

Captain: Science Officer, Study their role in the ecosystem of this planet. Analyze key points for survival for these creatures, and try to answer what if there is no dinosaur in this planet.

Science Officer: The work is already in progress captain. My analysis of physiology /biology of this group of animals show that the oxygen content of the atmosphere contributed a lot in the domination of this animal in this planet. In the same time because of high oxygen content animals which have very high probability of evolving into an intelligent life form have comparatively short life span.

Disappearance of dinosaur will have no adverse effect on the ecosystem of the planet. Once dinosaurs disappear there will be plenty of smaller carnivores which will be able to keep ecosystem in check and at the same time those smaller carnivorous wont pose a bigger security threat to us.

Captain: Suggest an easy way to end the domination of dinosaurs from this planet.

Science Officer: Captain, if somehow we are able to decrease the oxygen content of the atmosphere from 24% to 21 % these dinosaurs will die within a six months. They will be not able to take enough oxygen for their metabolism as well as other brain function.

Captain: What are the adverse effects on other life forms because of decreased oxygen content?

Science Officer: No Captain, in fact because of decrease amount of oxygen content may favor some life forms which have the capability of developing into intelligent life forms. Because of less oxygen these life forms may live longer and eventually may develop into an intelligent life form in this planet.

Captain: Is there any possibility of using these life forms for our mining purpose?

Science Officer: I think it is feasible Captain. We can improve their physical strength with some hormones without any adverse side effect.

Captain: Our hormones will work on them?

Science Officer: Most of the hormones will work on them Captain. They are also carbon life form like us, only difference is they use oxygen to produce energy, we use nitrogen. Hormones/ proteins are all made of carbon, nitrogen hydrogen oxygen. Except for energy production and emotion other mechanisms are comparable.

Captain: What is the life span of different life forms?

Science Officer: Six months to forty year’s Captain.

Captain: Any input, why they have short life span?

Science Officer: It is the oxygen which they use to produce energy Captain. During their metabolic process free radical of oxygen are formed at different stages. For them oxygen is both origin of life as well as origin of death. These free radicals corrode their vital organ Captain. Whereas in atmosphere of our planet there oxygen is only 10%, so not many free radicals, so our body organs are more stable then these life forms, Captain.

Captain: Oh, I see. Have you explored different possibility of reducing the oxygen content from the atmosphere of this planet?

Science Officer: Captain there is an asteroid X2 coming towards this planet. At its present speed it will be nearest, approximately 500 thousands kilometer away from the planet in a months’ time. If we manage to hit the planet by that asteroid it may serve our purpose.

Captain: Have you analyzed the various effects of asteroid X2 hitting planet.

Science Officer: Our computer simulation indicates that the atmosphere will catch fire. The fire starts consuming the atmospheric oxygen. When the oxygen content of the atmosphere reaches 21% it will not be able to sustain the atmospheric fire and the fire will die down. In the end, a thin cloud of dust will formed above planet’s immediate atmosphere. We can use our proton beam to destroy the dust cloud.

Captain: What will planet look like and what will happen to different life forms?

Science Officer: All those bigger and heavier life forms which rely on greater intake of oxygen will die because of lack of enough oxygen in atmosphere.

Less intelligent life forms will not be able to protect themselves from the dust cloud which will be formed aftermath; most of them will also be wiped out. Survivors will be comparatively intelligent life forms, and animals for which 21% atmospheric oxygen is enough for producing energy.

Captain: One more thing.

Science Officer: Yes Captain.

Captain: Is it possible to modify these animals so that they can produce energy just using sun and atmospheric oxygen?

Science Officer: No Captain, it is not. We use nitrogen compounds for our energy source. Nitrogen is capable of forming energy rich chemicals in presence of sunlight. But oxygen is not capable of forming such energy rich compounds, therefore they needs external source of energy supply.

Captain: I see. How long will it takes us to change the path of the asteroid so that it will collide this planet?

Science Officer: It will take three months Captain. The atmospheric fire set up after the asteroid hit the planet will last almost a year. Then we can use our proton beam to clear the dust. In any case in two years time this planet will be good enough for mining moblotungstaplite.

Captain: Very well let’s start then, shall we?
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Orbital path of asteroid X2 was changed. It hit the planet, a fire broke into planet’s atmosphere, lasted for about a year. After fire died down there was a thin layer of dust covering the planet, which was cleared by the spaceship using proton beam.

After completion of the process the spaceship once again landed on earth.

…… debriefing in situation room

Captain: Science officer, SITREP

Science Officer: Captain, dinosaurs are gone. Our life tracker shows 10% of other smaller life signs are also gone.

Captain: What is the overall ecological status?

Science Officer: Planet should reach its original ecological point within 2 years but without dinosaurs off course.

Captain: When can we start mining, Commander?

Commander: We have located five different geographical points where there are enough moblotangstaplite. All of these points are inhabited by a monkey like life forms. We can train them; modify them to increase their physical strength. We can start this task within a week Captain, once the planet reaches its normal ecosystem.

Captain: Very well. Science officer what changes are you planning for these monkey like creatures to improve their strengths?

Science Officer: I am proposing following changes Captain. First of all we have communication problem with these creatures. They lack flexible vocal cord to produce varieties of sounds. At present they can produce only limited sets of sounds which is hindering language development. Once we genetically modify their vocal cords it will be able to produce unlimited number of sounds. This will help them develop their own language. We can teach them communicable language.

Second, at present they use both, arms and legs for movement. This situation is hindering muscular movement of forearms, hind arms as well as legs. We need to modify that too, so that they start moving using only legs. This will increase their load bearing efficiency dramatically.

Third, we need to stop the development of flexible appendage to the torso, a tail like development. Once they start to walk with legs they do not need this tail like structure.

After this we can start training them for mining. We may need other minor modifications depending upon how they behave after first two genetic modifications.

Captain: Do we have to wait long for these modifications to complete?

Science Officer: No Captain. Vocal cord modification will take approximately six months and depending upon their brains reaction to it, they may be able to produce millions of sounds within a year and at that point we can teach them language.

We can make them walk only on legs within six months Captain. I have to modify our gene and protein corresponding to those genes and inject on them. Our gene will start replacing their gene and they will develop physical strengths in their legs. The process will even faster if we choose 1-2years old monkey.

Captain: This place will be our HQ. We will establish operation center in all five geographical locations. We will use shuttles to go to all five geographical locations where we can mine our compound of interest. Experiment will start tomorrow in all five locations.

Science Officer: Aye Captain

Captain: Commander could you make arrangement for transportation and other logistics to start experiment from tomorrow in all five geographical locations? Keep me posted of every development.

Commander: Aye Captain

To Be continued.................

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