MAN FROM TOMORROW (EPISODE 98)

"Some of the more brilliant ones among our colleagues came up with a theory. That theory is Existentialis Forsit. They said that if we build super humans to explore deep space, we can't expect them to terraform a planet for us normal humans to live there. That is because there will be no incentive for the Superhumans from an evolutionary standpoint. Why will they, who are adapted to conditions on Mars, Terraform it to our conditions. In fact they may even alter Mars to suit their needs more than ours. Thus there would be an inherent conflict of interest between us normal humans and those Superhumans. There was no answer we could come up with. That's why the Grand Plan for a Super ecology was abandoned and we restricted ourselves to only Superhumans, and Super plants.

"I guess that brilliant colleague of yours was you yourself. What say? Am I right?"

Martin could see a faint smile on Norman in the dim light of the sparse Highway traffic.

"Tell me Doctor, your Existentialis Forsit or whatever, may have applied to Space research. Have you thought about Earth?"

"How do you mean?"

"Well, you scientists are more intelligent than us common folk. Surely you must have thought about what would happen if Superhumans escaped or were let loose here on earth. They will end up extinguishing our species of normal humans, no?"

Norman looked out the window- "Thats why I created the Dioxin Lock"

"Dio... what?" 

Man! it was getting difficult conversing with these professor scientists. Even Antonio, god rest his soul, was like this. 

‘Jesus, do all of you come from the same place or what?’ Martin thought to himself.

"A short while ago, when narrating your tale you mentioned that this Kevin was suffering from some type of cancer in the terminal stage and Professor Antonio reported that no matter what, Kevin would die."

"Yeah right. It is in the medical report."

"That cancer was by design. We caused it, albeit indirectly. Kevin could not have survived long outside the confines of a NASA lab. We did this by a process called Dioxin Lock."

Martin's eyes were on the road but every other cell of his body was engrossed in what Norman was saying.

"See,Dioxins are a group of chemically-related compounds that are commonly known as Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs).Dioxins mostly exist as by-products of accidental fires, wildfires and industrial processes such as pesticide, plastic manufacture, and combustion processes such as waste incineration.

They are stubborn compounds that persist in our environment long after they have been emitted. They are primarily a result of Human activity. 

Dioxins are environmental pollutants found throughout the world.They flow through our water and also persist in the air to some extent. In short, they are a symbol of advanced Human civilization. A fingerprint of our evolutionary sophistication.They accumulate in our food, mainly in the fat tissue of animals and also in plant food.Due to the all-pervading presence of dioxins, people world-wide have a background exposure. This background exposure does not affect normal human health. But it will have a devastating effect on Superhumans if they happen to be out of the NASA labs."

(To Be Continued Tomorrow...)

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