Series: World Tunnel
Mac positions the shuttle about 300 meters away from the mouth of the wormhole. Then, he and the other two crew members start to get busy taking measurements and monitoring the phenomenon.
“Captain McMaren, here,” Lindsey says over the comms. “We don’t have a live visual feed yet, so tell us what you see.”
“Nothing, Captain,” Abigayle responds. “If we didn’t have instrumentation monitoring the wormhole, we’d never even know it was here. There are currently no visual elements to this thing so far.”
“But what we are reading is very exciting,” Richard added. “We’re seeing more organization to the radio signals that are coming through, though it’s difficult to tell at this point if the lingering chaos is distortion in the signals or just simply that we don’t know how to translate it yet. We’re about to send a probe into the wormhole to see if we can reduce some of the noise or even, fingers crossed, make tentative contact with whatever is on the other end of this thing.”
“Also, there is some seriously wonky — and I use that as a scientific term — gravity waves coming off this wormhole. We’re not even sure a probe will make it through, which is why we brought several on this trip, so we can make a few tries at this and see if we can navigate the gravitational chaos. We’ll try an automated buoy first, but if that gets destroyed, Mac will try his hand and manually piloting one through the gravity waves and see if we can surf this thing from one end to the other.”
“What about fallout,” Lindsey asks. “Are you seeing any kind of radiation or other harmful properties from the wormhole?”
“We’re only measuring a very low level of gamma radiation,” Richard replies. “But it’s so low, it doesn’t appear visually and it won’t be harmful to us, so we can stay here a while without risk.”
“Very good,” Lindsey says. “Well, you all have your tasks. Keep me posted.”
“Aye, Captain,” Richard says.
