CHAPTER NINE
Unaware the Dominants were monitoring his actions; Ed entered the code and pressed the download button. It consisted of several files, for Attwood's British friend did not want to take chances. The doctor made a separate folder, and put each completed file in it, making sure the folder was on a second hard drive.
He had just started on the fifth file when the internet connection slowed down. "Looks like someone's trying to break in. I'll try to stop them. Meanwhile someone use the dial up. Files nine, and seven are quite small."
Sloan got on, entered the code. "It'll take quite some time," she said.
"I'm working on it." He pressed the keys, scrolled through, trying to find the intruder. "It's not a regular hacker. I'll check for any unusual extensions, a Trojan horse."
Meanwhile, Sloan started on the seventh file. "It's coming through."
"Good. I'll try downloading the others all at once. You start on nine. I hope the machine can take it." He started on the others, setting it so that it would close once the download was complete. "It looks like they're searching for the other files. I'll move them around. Can't put them on CD until they're all here. I'll zip them up and password protect them. Good just the one."
Half an hour later, Ed disconnected the internet connection.. "Now no one will get in." When they were finished, they had the complete program on a CD.
"Interesting," said Carl who looked over their shoulders, "Imagine the Allies have a plan like that."
"No wonder the Dominants were after it."
"Do you think it was them? Who are these Dominants anyway?"
"New Species, 1.6, instead of the 1 of us humans. Vicious, intelligent and dedicated to our destruction," said Sloan.
"Could be Aliens."
Ed explained about the Dominants to the two brothers who were not surprised, but after all Carl mentioned Aliens and he was a Navy man, meaning he was probably familiar with Project Bluebook, strange crafts, and weird things popping in the night.
"If you believed these were a highly evolved human, the next level of humanity, that Cd tells another story," said Enrique.
"You know as well as I that back in the thirties and forties, they were doing a lot of experiments that would be considered illegal," said Carl, "I wonder if any of the Aliens I met were a result of such. Sounds like something out of the X Files."
"Let's see," said Ed, "removing the fast acting sperm, just letting the stronger and slower ones fertilize the eggs. How much did that cost? In dollars?"
"At that time over a million dollars. I won't tell you how much it would be now," said Enrique.
"You figured that out that fast?"
"I'm an accountant. I'd say the theory on evolution just got shot full of holes. It also explains these Dominants developing in a short of period instead of the usual ten thousand or million years. Doesn't seem to be mutations either. What do you say Doctor Tate?"
It took at least one hundred to one thousand sperm to try to fertilize one egg. The faster ones made it, followed by the defective ones. "Remove the damaged ones, and the chance of a perfect child increases. Remove the fast ones, as well as the damaged ones, and the only ones left are the slower stronger ones, but you need to know a woman s ovulation cycle to be successful. Let's see how that works," said Ed making a chart and posting it on the wall. "Now you can see what happens. The fast ones are ahead, followed by the damaged ones. These latter are incapable of fertilize the eggs. Therefore they must have a purpose, —to prevent the slower ones from succeeding."
"I thought the slower ones were the damaged ones," said Attwood.
"No. If you look at this enlarged drawing, the fast sperm and the slow sperm are the same, just the tales are different. I think we just solved the Dominant problem. "
"But what about a Dominant female and a human male? Wouldn't his faster sperm overcome the slower ones?"
Ed took out a Petri dish. "I took this from the corpse of a Dominant male. You notice the absence of damaged sperms. Do you see how they travel? The fast ones dart about. This explains the damaged ones. They kept the slower ones from approaching so one of the fast ones could make it. But notice that the fast sperm is still trying to penetrate the egg while the slower ones move like the Tortoise and the Hare."
"That still doesn't explain about one of us getting with a Dominant female."
"Well I would suppose that her system would be receptive to the slower sperm. If there were a case, I'd be very interested. Anyone know a guy who dated Delilah Queen of Bondage?"
"Too bad we don't have the originals to find out what happened," said Sloan.
The Cd also had the record of a couple killed in a bomb explosion along with their unborn child back in England. Rather than eight couples to a boat, the quota should have been ten couples. Ed did a fast calculation which was not as fast as Enrique who stated that, "Originally one hundred and sixty people, or eighty couples. Remove thirty two people and that leaves one hundred and twenty eight. Killed?"
Ed examined the Cd. It showed no record of foul play, just the wrong place and the wrong time. He told them he assumed that the couples were matched and if a male of a couple was killed, and the female of the other also died, they might not be able to match the surviving two.
"It all depends on how closely related or similar gene construction is. They would be more than extra careful and prevent marriages not only of first cousins, but of people originating from the same district and you have to consider that someone would mistake this as a Nazi infiltration plot." he said.
This explained how the authorities moved the groups from Central London to a remote part of England to prevent any further decimation, and just in time for the corpse of the unborn child, a girl, showed the beginnings of four uteruses.
According to the scientific community, this started a buzz, for many of the members were Church goers. They started to look for ancient corpses and were largely unsuccessful because of time and dampness and because the Egyptians removed the internal organs of their mummies and most of the corpses in Northern and European territories were men. Still they persisted until they found one of the oldest corpses of a female, dated around twenty thousand BC It appeared she had four uteruses as well, but it was not in as good a shape, being buried under tons of sand. They found nothing else.
"So this means that suddenly the Dominants lived along side humans and then they disappeared," said Attwood, "do you know of that period?"
"Twenty thousand BC?. The Earth is not that old," said Carl, "The flood occurred around 3000 BC. The date of the corpse is incorrect. From 3000 to 2000 BC, life was very hard and violence a way of life. Anything before 3000 BC would have been crushed or twisted by the waters .and everyone died except for Noah and his family."
"You believe that stuff?" asked Sloan.
"Yes. Makes perfect sense. We see corpses all the time. I know how long it takes one to decay. You know why the Egyptians took elaborate precautions to preserve their dead. Preserved the skeletons as well. At Twenty thousand BC, there would be nothing left."
"For a Navy officer, you know a lot," said Ray.
Carl ignored him. "I think that this woman must have been one of the last descendants of Cain. How old was the corpse by the way?"
"About sixty or seventy. Quite young if what you say is correct."
"Yes," said Carl, "Sin grew, causing those damaged sperm, evil, and turnips. Could be that's why you're not these Dominants."
"And how long before the damaged sperm appear in the Dominants?" asked Ed, amused at the Captain's reference to turnips rather than the usual thorns and thistles. .
"Probably never. We're dealing with sixty four couples, not just a few first people who married their sisters, then their half sisters. These Dominants do not need to. That gives them an advantage," said Sloan, "What else does the Cd say?"
"It's a copy of a telegram from a Captain Boulders of the RAF who was on one of the eight ships. He saw one ship being steered towards the New England coast into a storm. He tried to radio them, but couldn't get an answer. Another ship volunteered to go get them. Boulders ordered them to signal back when it found out what happened. He never received an answer for two days, and then decided to catch up with the others."
That meant only one thing, there were Dominants in New England.
Unaware the Dominants were monitoring his actions; Ed entered the code and pressed the download button. It consisted of several files, for Attwood's British friend did not want to take chances. The doctor made a separate folder, and put each completed file in it, making sure the folder was on a second hard drive.
He had just started on the fifth file when the internet connection slowed down. "Looks like someone's trying to break in. I'll try to stop them. Meanwhile someone use the dial up. Files nine, and seven are quite small."
Sloan got on, entered the code. "It'll take quite some time," she said.
"I'm working on it." He pressed the keys, scrolled through, trying to find the intruder. "It's not a regular hacker. I'll check for any unusual extensions, a Trojan horse."
Meanwhile, Sloan started on the seventh file. "It's coming through."
"Good. I'll try downloading the others all at once. You start on nine. I hope the machine can take it." He started on the others, setting it so that it would close once the download was complete. "It looks like they're searching for the other files. I'll move them around. Can't put them on CD until they're all here. I'll zip them up and password protect them. Good just the one."
Half an hour later, Ed disconnected the internet connection.. "Now no one will get in." When they were finished, they had the complete program on a CD.
"Interesting," said Carl who looked over their shoulders, "Imagine the Allies have a plan like that."
"No wonder the Dominants were after it."
"Do you think it was them? Who are these Dominants anyway?"
"New Species, 1.6, instead of the 1 of us humans. Vicious, intelligent and dedicated to our destruction," said Sloan.
"Could be Aliens."
Ed explained about the Dominants to the two brothers who were not surprised, but after all Carl mentioned Aliens and he was a Navy man, meaning he was probably familiar with Project Bluebook, strange crafts, and weird things popping in the night.
"If you believed these were a highly evolved human, the next level of humanity, that Cd tells another story," said Enrique.
"You know as well as I that back in the thirties and forties, they were doing a lot of experiments that would be considered illegal," said Carl, "I wonder if any of the Aliens I met were a result of such. Sounds like something out of the X Files."
"Let's see," said Ed, "removing the fast acting sperm, just letting the stronger and slower ones fertilize the eggs. How much did that cost? In dollars?"
"At that time over a million dollars. I won't tell you how much it would be now," said Enrique.
"You figured that out that fast?"
"I'm an accountant. I'd say the theory on evolution just got shot full of holes. It also explains these Dominants developing in a short of period instead of the usual ten thousand or million years. Doesn't seem to be mutations either. What do you say Doctor Tate?"
It took at least one hundred to one thousand sperm to try to fertilize one egg. The faster ones made it, followed by the defective ones. "Remove the damaged ones, and the chance of a perfect child increases. Remove the fast ones, as well as the damaged ones, and the only ones left are the slower stronger ones, but you need to know a woman s ovulation cycle to be successful. Let's see how that works," said Ed making a chart and posting it on the wall. "Now you can see what happens. The fast ones are ahead, followed by the damaged ones. These latter are incapable of fertilize the eggs. Therefore they must have a purpose, —to prevent the slower ones from succeeding."
"I thought the slower ones were the damaged ones," said Attwood.
"No. If you look at this enlarged drawing, the fast sperm and the slow sperm are the same, just the tales are different. I think we just solved the Dominant problem. "
"But what about a Dominant female and a human male? Wouldn't his faster sperm overcome the slower ones?"
Ed took out a Petri dish. "I took this from the corpse of a Dominant male. You notice the absence of damaged sperms. Do you see how they travel? The fast ones dart about. This explains the damaged ones. They kept the slower ones from approaching so one of the fast ones could make it. But notice that the fast sperm is still trying to penetrate the egg while the slower ones move like the Tortoise and the Hare."
"That still doesn't explain about one of us getting with a Dominant female."
"Well I would suppose that her system would be receptive to the slower sperm. If there were a case, I'd be very interested. Anyone know a guy who dated Delilah Queen of Bondage?"
"Too bad we don't have the originals to find out what happened," said Sloan.
The Cd also had the record of a couple killed in a bomb explosion along with their unborn child back in England. Rather than eight couples to a boat, the quota should have been ten couples. Ed did a fast calculation which was not as fast as Enrique who stated that, "Originally one hundred and sixty people, or eighty couples. Remove thirty two people and that leaves one hundred and twenty eight. Killed?"
Ed examined the Cd. It showed no record of foul play, just the wrong place and the wrong time. He told them he assumed that the couples were matched and if a male of a couple was killed, and the female of the other also died, they might not be able to match the surviving two.
"It all depends on how closely related or similar gene construction is. They would be more than extra careful and prevent marriages not only of first cousins, but of people originating from the same district and you have to consider that someone would mistake this as a Nazi infiltration plot." he said.
This explained how the authorities moved the groups from Central London to a remote part of England to prevent any further decimation, and just in time for the corpse of the unborn child, a girl, showed the beginnings of four uteruses.
According to the scientific community, this started a buzz, for many of the members were Church goers. They started to look for ancient corpses and were largely unsuccessful because of time and dampness and because the Egyptians removed the internal organs of their mummies and most of the corpses in Northern and European territories were men. Still they persisted until they found one of the oldest corpses of a female, dated around twenty thousand BC It appeared she had four uteruses as well, but it was not in as good a shape, being buried under tons of sand. They found nothing else.
"So this means that suddenly the Dominants lived along side humans and then they disappeared," said Attwood, "do you know of that period?"
"Twenty thousand BC?. The Earth is not that old," said Carl, "The flood occurred around 3000 BC. The date of the corpse is incorrect. From 3000 to 2000 BC, life was very hard and violence a way of life. Anything before 3000 BC would have been crushed or twisted by the waters .and everyone died except for Noah and his family."
"You believe that stuff?" asked Sloan.
"Yes. Makes perfect sense. We see corpses all the time. I know how long it takes one to decay. You know why the Egyptians took elaborate precautions to preserve their dead. Preserved the skeletons as well. At Twenty thousand BC, there would be nothing left."
"For a Navy officer, you know a lot," said Ray.
Carl ignored him. "I think that this woman must have been one of the last descendants of Cain. How old was the corpse by the way?"
"About sixty or seventy. Quite young if what you say is correct."
"Yes," said Carl, "Sin grew, causing those damaged sperm, evil, and turnips. Could be that's why you're not these Dominants."
"And how long before the damaged sperm appear in the Dominants?" asked Ed, amused at the Captain's reference to turnips rather than the usual thorns and thistles. .
"Probably never. We're dealing with sixty four couples, not just a few first people who married their sisters, then their half sisters. These Dominants do not need to. That gives them an advantage," said Sloan, "What else does the Cd say?"
"It's a copy of a telegram from a Captain Boulders of the RAF who was on one of the eight ships. He saw one ship being steered towards the New England coast into a storm. He tried to radio them, but couldn't get an answer. Another ship volunteered to go get them. Boulders ordered them to signal back when it found out what happened. He never received an answer for two days, and then decided to catch up with the others."
That meant only one thing, there were Dominants in New England.