Those of you who have seen the movie Apollo thirteen might think that modern day space travel is very risky. It is, but it’s a lot safer than it used to be. Things were a lot worse a thousand years ago.
Think about it. Back in those days people traveled in space without really understanding the physics that made space travel possible. They sailed on wooden ships in the polarized ether streams. They had rudders with a magnetic ore (which they discovered by accident) that allowed them to move through the different magnetic fequencies within the slipstreams. If they steered towards the more polarized outer shell of the ether stream, they would go faster. If they slipped towards the middle they would slow down and eventually stop and switch directions. On the outside of the streams they could travel as fast as a million knots.
There were two great dangers of traveling on the slipstreams. The first was the ether portals. If your ship shifted two much in the anti gravity stream as you were rising from a planet’s crust, you could start an uncontrolled slide into the center of the slipstream and fall right back down on the planet at the normal acceleration of gravity (whatever that may be for the world you were on).
The other danger was of the shifting of the streams. Each planet was surrounded by orbit streams, which in turn ran a circuit on a larger orbit stream around the sun. These solar orbits also had crospaths connecting them, some of which ran directly from one planet to the next. The problem of course was that the planets have different orbit speeds, so as the one planet orbited faster than the other, the crossover path between the two of them would begin to wrap itself around the sun. Therefore, Once the planets were over halfway around the sun, the cross stream would slowly start to fray, and then break apart altogether, re-establishing itself along the new, shorter route on the other side of the sun. Naturally, it was extremely dangerous to be traveling through streams like these at such times.
Nevertheless, many of the ancients managed to do it. Entire empires of humans lived in space, surviving on the planets which were all more habitable then, than they are now. My hats are off to these ancient heroes who kept our solar system free from alien invaders.
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