EARTH OF ANOTHER KIND (The ANOTHER KIND series Book 2) by STEVEN DECKER

Author:STEVEN DECKER [DECKER, STEVEN]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Publisher: TIER Books LLC
Published: 2023-08-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 30

The meeting went on until well past noon. It was almost one o’clock when the “Visitors” disappeared, and the President saw them depart. Maddie wasn’t sure what meeting he’d delayed or canceled, but he would certainly be late for lunch and possibly be in trouble with his wife again if that was the appointment he’d missed.

The back-and-forth of the negotiations had been frustrating for her group, except for the Teacher. He was his implacable self, unemotional and unmoved by the vagaries of human politics as if none of it mattered to him. And it probably didn’t.For the rest of them, however, it was maddening. That beings from another planet could beam down and promise to end all the major threats to the well-being of humanity and be met with petty, selfish roadblocks was ludicrous.

On the other hand, she liked the President, and she understood why he was being so stubborn regarding who controlled some of the technology offered. He was the steward of a country, not the Earth, but in her mind, if any country had been a global leader, it was undoubtedly the United States. Perhaps she was biased because she’d grown up here, but she thought most people in the world would agree with her, even if they might not like it.

Jean had been great during the meeting, and they’d asked the President if they could bring her with them to help plan the next phase of the cooperative agreement that had been verbally agreed to by the meeting’s end.

“How long do you need her?” asked the President.

Maddie answered. “We need her for as long as this project continues.”

“Can we share her?” he asked. “After all, she does work for the Executive Branch of the U.S. government, which means she works for me.”

“Yes, sir, of course,” said Maddie. “Can she stay with us for a few days and then return to you?”

“Sure,” he said. “Someone give Dr. Lemare my secretary’s direct number and tell her to expect a call from the good doctor in two days.” Everyone on the President’s side of the table nodded except Jean, who seemed overwhelmed by the attention.

The President and the four visitors had agreed that the U.S. would pioneer the first fusion vehicle, announce the discovery to the world and share the technology freely, contingent on testing to prove the fusion engine did not pose a threat of radioactivity, especially in the event of an automobile accident. The Teacher assured him that the fusion reaction would be housed in an impenetrable shell made of a compound not yet created on Earth. It was so strong that virtually nothing could penetrate it, and since the fusion reaction was basically eternal, there was no maintenance required of the engine itself. Moreover, the radiation in this kind of fusion was minimal to begin with.

The energy from the fusion reactor was tapped via connectors to the outside of the shell, and that is how the car would run; how anything powered by this kind of engine would run, which is the way things were on Earth Station.

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