MAN FROM TOMORROW (EPISODE 97)

"Why Project 209? Any particular reason for that number 209?" Martin was in intrigued.

"If you examine closely, the number 209 is the product of two prime numbers"

"Yeah, 19 and 11."Martin interjected. He may not be an ace in biology, but Mathematics was Martin's forte.

"Correct. If you go through history, the concept of Eugenics took off in USA before anywhere else. There was one institute called The Eugenics Record Office or the ERO to which every serious effort towards eugenics can be traced.The ERO located in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, was a center for eugenics and human heredity research. Now it so happened that The ERO was founded in 1911 by a group of biologists. It was one of the leading organizations in the American eugenics movement. ERO collected masses of family pedigrees data, statistically analysed them and formed committees to look into how we can better the human race. More specifically, the American stock.

"I get it." Said Martin. "ERO was established in 1911.You people took 19- the first two digits of 1911.Then you multiplied it with 11, the last two digits of 1911.And you get the number 209.Pretty clever".

"What's your story?"Norman asked.

Martin was thinking of what to tell Norman and what not to. But then he thought ‘what the hell!’

Martin started to narrate in detail what had happened from the time he was called in to handle Joseph or Kevin's case at the FBI office until the moment he came to meet Norman.

After Martin had recounted his ordeal, there was an engulfing silence. Neither He nor Norman wanted to break it. None of them wanted to let go of the cosy comfort the Silence provided.

"So, Kevin was indeed created by you then?" Martin said rhetorically.

"Yes Martin.We did. In fact Superhumans were not the only ones we created for space exploration".

"What do you mean?"

"We had even created Superplants- plants giving higher yield and capable of growing in Extraterrestrial conditions. And also Superanimals."

"Animals like what?"

"Superdogs and Supermonkeys. To assist the Superhumans. There were plans to draw up a road map to create a super ecology in a super biosphere ultimately resulting in the Terraforming of mars."

"Terraforming?"

"Terraforming is the process of artificially transforming a planet's temperature, atmosphere, surface features or ecology to be similar to the biosphere of Earth and make it habitable by Earth-like life."

"What happened to that plan?"

"Existentialis Forsit "

"Exist...Exist... What?"

"Existentialis Forsit- Latin For -the Existential Problem"

"What is that?"

(To Be Continued Tomorrow...)

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