[The Fear Saga 01] - Fear the Sky (2014) Read Online Free

[The Fear Saga 01] - Fear the Sky (2014)
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Author: Stephen Moss
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didn’t, have very much of them, which means that unlike typical interstellar masses they may not have the, well, the holes and gaps that escaping gases would leave behind as they either combusted or froze under the alternate exposure to the freezing vacuum and the sun’s unfiltered barrage. Previous estimating tools assume that a significant proportion of an interstellar object’s total volume is, in fact, empty, nothing there: fractures and gaps left by escaping gases.”
    He took a breath and continued, walking around the colonel to the console as the junior officer seated at it leant to one side to allow him to reach the keyboard. “Sooo, if these guys don’t seem to have many of those gaps,” he said as he typed into the machine, looking up at the screen as the mass estimates changed under his fingertips, and the computer began to recalculate the way the objects would react to the earth’s atmosphere, “they may have a higher mass to volume ratio, they may be denser, in which case they … might … do … this.” he said as he clicked enter on the last of the reconfigured estimates.
    They all looked at the screen as the alternate entry statistics appeared.
    The colonel’s obstinacy was not born of ignorance or stupidity, as it turned out, but of long practice of authority, and he was just as quick as his neighbors to see the implications of the new numbers.
    “Yes, this would make it more interesting,” he said quietly.
    Revised: NOTICE OF ANTICIPATED ATMOSPHERIC PENETRATION
    Time logged: 0344 MST
    Date logged: September 20
    Time Last Modified: 1257 MST
    Date Last Modified: September 27
    Location: AMFPS85 Radar Array
    Noted by: Neal P. Danielson
    Note Type: First Contact [never gets old]
    Est. Date/Time of Atmospheric Penetration: October 4, ~10am GMT
    Est. Volume: ~1.35 km 3
    Est. Mass: ~116k tons
    Impact Probability: Scattered debris
    Est. Impact Location(s): Multiple sites: all oceanic,
    - North Atlantic, two impacts possible near Outer Hebrides, Scotland, and the Channel Islands
    - Northern Pacific, two impacts possible across northern Pacific near Bering Strait
    - East China Sea, impact possible northwest of the Okinawa archipelago
    - Indian Ocean, two impacts possible: one in the Bay of Bengal near Sri Lanka, one southwest of the Kathiawar peninsula in the Arabian Sea
    Incident ID: ColonelMiltonBlows

Chapter 3: Well-Lit Corridors

    The colonel walked behind and to the right of the pair of scientists down a long, neon-lit beige corridor, herding them to turn left or right as required. Neal had tried to let the colonel go first as the man knew where they were going better than either Neal or Laurie did, but the military man’s training would not allow him to have civilians walking behind him in the high-security facility, out of sight, as it were.
    As they walked in relative silence, Neal noted that unlike himself, Dr. West had not tried to argue the point with Colonel Milton, and had simply started walking in the direction indicated by the colonel’s outstretched hand. As she was clearly not one to blindly follow societal gender mores, it was obvious that she was simply more aware of which arguments could and could not be won with men like the colonel. The point was not lost on Neal, and he decided to try and follow her lead in the upcoming military briefing, noting with satisfaction that he was not as pigheaded as his ex-girlfriends typically said he was.
    “We’ll be taking this next left.” the colonel interjected from behind them, continuing as they turned onto another uncomfortably well-lit beige corridor, “We’ll be meeting in Teleconference Room B526 up here on the right.”
    As they approached Barrett Milton stepped to the door before them and, pausing as he clasped its handle, spoke in an aside to Neal, “Before we go in I just wanted to confirm that you changed the Incident ID on that report, I had meant to mention it in the control room but our conversation went a bit long and it
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