Wormholes
are, in fact, extremely rare, as there aren't many Space-worms around to make
them. Space-worms are unusual creatures in that they are made from pure
nucleonic power, and are about fifteen light-years long. Apart from those
things, however, they differ vastly from the wrath of an average housewife. Their
sole purpose seems to be that of wrecking the universe, which is pretty stupid
as that would result in their destruction as well, but then they're pretty
stupid creatures. Wormholes are, contrary to some extremely far-fetched ideas
(such as that they're caused by butterflies), caused by space-worms boring
holes from one dimension into another. Wormcasts in space are quite another matter,
but we won't go into that right now....
"Oh
look, that's a pretty wormhole!" piped up Zero-bit.
"Get
real! That's not a wormhole, that's a..... a..... that's a wormhole. Oh. What's a wormhole doing here, just outside
junction eleven then?"
"Beats
me. It seems to be quite a new one, too."
"How
can you tell if it's new or not?"
"Er,
well you wouldn't be able to because I filter it out before it gets to the
cabin, but boy do they smell!"
"Aha.
So, is that good?"
"Well,
good and bad for the same reason. We
might see a space-worm."
"Why
would that be good?"
"Because
we'd be the first ones to ever get pictures of one, and we could sell them and get
mega-rich! Even richer than your relatives were in the height of their
richness. And famous, we'd be famous beyond our wildest dreams!"
"My
wildest dreams are rarely about being famous, but we won't go into that right
now, ZB. What's the bad news?"
"We'd
get fried if we got within 100 million miles of the thing."
"Aha.
So, is that bad?"
"Weren't
you listening to me?"
"No,
I was just reading the autocue. Damned thing must have gone up the creek
again."
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