As a family prepares to be "Jaunted" to Mars, the
father entertains his two children by recounting the curious tale of the
discovery and history of this crude form of teleportation. He explains how the
scientist who serendipitously discovered it quickly learned that it had a
disturbing, inexplicable effect on the mice he "sent through"--eventually
concluding that they could only survive the "Jaunt effect" while unconscious.
That, the father explains, is why all people must undergo general anaesthesia
before using the Jaunt.
The father spares his children the gruesome semi-apocryphal account of the
first human to be Jaunted awake, a condemned murderer offered a full pardon for
agreeing to the experiment. The man "came through" and immediately suffered a
massive heart attack, living just long enough to utter a single cryptic
phrase:
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As a family prepares to be "Jaunted" to Mars, the father entertains his two children by recounting the curious tale of the discovery and history of this crude form of teleportation. He explains how the scientist who serendipitously discovered it quickly learned that it had a disturbing, inexplicable effect on the mice he "sent through"--eventually concluding that they could only survive the "Jaunt effect" while unconscious. That, the father explains, is why all people must undergo general anaesthesia before using the Jaunt.
The father spares his children the gruesome semi-apocryphal account of the first human to be Jaunted awake, a condemned murderer offered a full pardon for agreeing to the experiment. The man "came through" and immediately suffered a massive heart attack, living just long enough to utter a single cryptic phrase: