Disclaimer: I don't own SC. I don't own the main plot, either. I ahem borrowed it from Futurama...which I don't own. I also stole the title...ahem...I meant borrowed the title...
A/N: I wanted to retire, but noooo, somebody made me write this story. And I did because I know she'll hurt me. So, with no further atchoo...The Anthology of Interest I...
Prologue
Scientific curiosity was what conviced Bova to build the machine from the plans he found on the SpaceNet. He originally thought it couldn't be built.
After he succeeded, he was sure it wouldn't work.
After realizing he was just wrong, he decided it might be interesting to see the machine with the microphone sticking out on top and crank on the side in action with his friends.
So he gathered his fellow crewmates and Thelma into the team room and showed them.
"This," Bova said, "is a what if machine. Ask it a what if question, and the answer plays out on the screen."
"What if I were fifty feet tall?" Thelma asked absently.
"You wouldn't fit on the Christa and even if you could, you'd flatten everyone," Bova replied. "Someone ask a more interesting question."
"I know!" Suzee said. "What if Catalina and I had never switched dimensions?"
Bova spoke into the machine's microphone. "What if Suzee and Catalina had never switched dimensions?"
He turned the crank, and soon, the story played on the screen...
A/N: I wanted to retire, but noooo, somebody made me write this story. And I did because I know she'll hurt me. So, with no further atchoo...The Anthology of Interest I...
Prologue
Scientific curiosity was what conviced Bova to build the machine from the plans he found on the SpaceNet. He originally thought it couldn't be built.
After he succeeded, he was sure it wouldn't work.
After realizing he was just wrong, he decided it might be interesting to see the machine with the microphone sticking out on top and crank on the side in action with his friends.
So he gathered his fellow crewmates and Thelma into the team room and showed them.
"This," Bova said, "is a what if machine. Ask it a what if question, and the answer plays out on the screen."
"What if I were fifty feet tall?" Thelma asked absently.
"You wouldn't fit on the Christa and even if you could, you'd flatten everyone," Bova replied. "Someone ask a more interesting question."
"I know!" Suzee said. "What if Catalina and I had never switched dimensions?"
Bova spoke into the machine's microphone. "What if Suzee and Catalina had never switched dimensions?"
He turned the crank, and soon, the story played on the screen...