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    2120 Titus
    2120 Titus
    2120 Titus
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    2120 Titus

    By Razor Blade

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    A 17 km wide asteroid named 2120 Titus has been knocked out of its orbit between Mars and Jupiter and is heading towards a collision with Earth. A known object for over a hundred years, scientists struggle to understand why the asteroid is heading towards Earth and why the asteroid is emitting an intelligent radio signal. Based on 1960's space sci fi, 2120 Titus is a story of the astronauts and space scientists journey from Earth to the asteroid to decipher the signal and see if the crew is able to reveal what the mysterious signal means and if they are capable of saving the Earth from eminent destruction. Not your typical Asteroid meets Earth story. Check out 2120 Titus and see what the mystery means.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRazor Blade
    Release dateMar 2, 2018
    ISBN9781370604845
    2120 Titus
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    Razor Blade

    My first book was published 20 years ago and is on this site. It is called Morning Star. My style is over the top absurd and crazy, I can't write a boring book. I have explored many types of genre's and like to explore different ideas. My favorite subjects are religious in nature and often use God, angels and Demons as characters. I don't write cookie cutter books and I don't really read all that much. I am a creator more than a consumer. I know what I like and I don't feel I need to read other's works in order to plagiarize their themes and ideas. I don't agree that you have to be a reader to be a good writer, you just need talent and good imagination.

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      2120 Titus - Razor Blade

      2120 Titus

      Copyright © 2018 by Razor Blade All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the author. The only exception is by a reviewer, who may quote short excerpts in a review.

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

      Chapter 1

      Dissertation

      Your government loves your guns more than it loves your children, the tall man said. He was standing at the bottom pit of a lecture hall 3 in the Peterson Science building at Grand University in Lincoln Nebraska. The man in question was Dr. Hans Mueller, a thirty two year old grad student working on his second doctoral dissertation and a current professor of Computer Science and Astrophysics at the University. His second doctoral degree, and the one he struggled with the most to understand was Psychology, or more specifically, the Psychology of Behavior.

      Diagnosed with mild Asperger’s as a child, Dr. Mueller had a difficult time with social interactions, and understanding behavior in general. He loved science and soaked up knowledge like a sponge, but had difficulty relating what he was to teach his students because of his diagnosis. Asperger’s was a cruel bitch for anyone with the diagnosis and Dr. Mueller was no different. He often struggled with social relationships and had difficulty communicating effectively with his students and colleagues. He was only interested in the sciences and didn’t care for many of the humanity classes he was required to take for his degree. And like most high functioning autistics, he had above normal intelligence and language skills.

      As part of his doctoral dissertation he had to prove his thesis-which must be significant and original- (no one has yet demonstrated it to be true), and it must extend the state of scientific knowledge. His thesis was that active shooters, in a school setting were responding to an evolutionary need for survival. He wanted to prove the motives for most school shootings were not from a revenge standpoint, but from an ancient need, held within our DNA, to survive and pass on our genes. In the modern world, the signals from our DNA no longer functioned in a way they did thousands of years ago due to changes in how societies have evolved. Basically, our culture has outpaced our gene sequences and the active shooter phenomenon was born.

      The problem was there was only one way to prove it.

      Dr. Mueller, upon entering the lecture hall set a duffle bag on the table and stepped over to the lectern. He poked and prodded his laptop until his Power Point projected onto the large screen to his left. The lecture hall was steep in design with the rows of students rising at a thirty degree angle up to the top where a single double wide door rose behind the last row of students. The doors were shut and the hall was now quiet except for a few grumblings from students who didn’t necessarily agree with Dr. Mueller’s first statement about the government and guns.

      Picking up the clicker to his laptop, Dr. Mueller stepped over to the table looking over his shoulder at the massive screen behind him. He wore a wireless microphone that amplified his voice over the speaker system in the lecture hall and cleared his throat checking to make sure the system was working. The first slide he projected was a picture of Charles Whitman and Stephen Paddock side by side. The image was from a Washington Post website story on the two killers comparing how they both shot freely from a high vantage point and murdered innocent victims at will. Dr. Mueller read from the story, "In 1966, on a hot Texas summer afternoon, ex-Marine sharpshooter Charles Whitman, 25, boarded an elevator in the University of Texas Tower with a cache of weapons, intent on deadly mayhem. From more than 300 feet above, Whitman blasted victims on campus and nearby — a pregnant woman, shot in the belly; her boyfriend, shot in the neck; a teenager, shot in the face. Seventeen people died that day, and more than 30 were wounded."

      Dr. Mueller looked over to the faces of the students and then back at the screen. He read on, "Like the dozens of victims shot by Stephen Paddock from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay resort, Whitman’s targets were confused, defenseless and easy targets for at least 20 minutes as police scrambled to find where the shots were coming from."

      Then a student spoke up and said, This is obviously a liberal college.

      A chorus of students broke out in laughter at the remark and then they died down.

      What are you saying? Dr. Mueller asked. He didn’t know which student spoke up, and he didn’t care. But now he was pissed because someone interrupted his presentation.

      Guns don’t kill, people do, the voice replied.

      Please stand up, Dr. Mueller requested. The student, who was a third of the way up the hall to his right stood. He was a male, about nineteen years old in a ball cap and T-shirt and jeans. Dr. Mueller stepped around the table to the front and looked at the student shaking his head. You say guns don’t kill, people do?

      That’s right, the student replied.

      You must have got that off a NRA bumper sticker. You may be correct that guns alone do not kill people, but they sure make it easier---don’t you think? Dr. Mueller asked.

      I’ve never seen a gun kill anyone, the student replied. He was now nervous being called out in front of all his peers.

      If that is the case, why does your government issue firearms to the police? Or to soldiers?

      Guns are tools, nothing more.

      I see, Dr. Mueller replied. Then why not issue them screw drivers and hammers?

      The student was now becoming defensive and angry. You just want to ban guns.

      How do you know what I want?

      The student had no reply.

      I believe everyone has the right to defend themselves, Dr. Mueller said. And I’m a firm believer in the second amendment. But don’t insult my intelligence and tell me guns don’t kill when it is very clear they were created for that very purpose.

      But it takes a person…

      Yes it does, but it is common now for people to quote the overused meme that guns don’t kill, people do, to justify that guns are only tools. What you say and what you mean are two very different things---all together.

      Then why not ban cars? Or baseball bats? They can kill.

      I’m not saying we should ban guns, did you not hear what I said? Are you so angry that you are blind to what I am saying? And as far as cars and baseball bats go, they were designed to transport people and hit baseballs, not kill.

      But they can be used to kill, the student replied.

      Of course, I see where you are going with this. Anything can be used for a purpose it wasn’t designed for. But the gun was designed to kill. All I want is for you to agree that guns were created to kill and that guns do indeed kill.

      People kill.

      I see I’m getting nowhere with you, Dr. Mueller replied. Sit down.

      I didn’t spend twenty grand to go to a college to be lectured on gun control, the student said. He was

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