Beyond Trappist 1

By Daniel Rhoades

This story starts with a kid by watching television heard the theory that the Earth will be consumed by the sun, the fear of this caused an incredible journey, from the Moon to the center of The Milky way, and the inventions of a group of people that made journey possible. Joseph Stine is the main character; he developed a new computer system using Nanites. He called the system MANN, this system morphs into the main character over thousands of years of evolution of the Nanites, this happened due to Joe experimenting on himself with medical Nanites to keep him strong and healthy. He sold a copy of MANN to the U.S government, but felt he needed a way to control MANN and MANN 2, and creates a Special Nanite, implanted into himself and his daughter Crystal, Joe wanted to use Nanites for the good of Mankind, Crystal not so much. Joe goes to the far reaches of space, Crystal stayed behind on Earth and became a dictator, but was killed by an act of God. That bothered Joe and he would think of it often. On the space craft named “Home”, the Joe and the crew slept for 20 years in a Hybercell and would wake up for a week at a time, over hundreds of years Joe convinced the crew to agree to enhancing themselves with Nanites for their health and wellbeing. They agree, and their evolution began. They colonize a planet, and find life on exo-planets, some odd, some awfully familiar. Alien life that had depleted their home planet of everything and forced to recycle minerals, and everything they needed from other places. In order for Joe to get their technology he infected them with Nanites, speeding transportation to faster than the speed of light. A thousand years later Joe, no longer existed, and had become Special. Special then evolves into a mass of Nanites and after a few thousand years they try to return to Earth, but something was keeping them away. Special makes a final attempt to escape to gravity of Sagittarius A*, when it meets God.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Dec 22, 2021
• ISBN: 9781663230881

Daniel Rhoades

Daniel L, Rhoades A Nuclear, Biological, Chemical operations specialist for the Us Army, has a fascination with Nanotechnology, its application to our future lives. This is the first of a series, of his futuristic imagination.

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BEYOND TRAPPIST 1

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ISBN: 978-1-6632-3089-8 (sc)

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2021921687

iUniverse rev. date:  12/15/2021

CONTENTS

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Epilogue

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S ome say the quest to go outside our solar system started when Galileo found moons around Jupiter in the late 1600s, but I say to you that it really started in 1985. Yeah, I know what you’re thinking— Star Wars and Star Trek . But those were movies and television shows in the 1970s. In 1984, Joseph Daniel Stein was born.

At an early age, Joe demonstrated an above-average intellect. His father was a university professor, and his mother was a nurse. Joe had a nanny when he was young, and she focused on education. Joe loved science and loved watching old sci-fi movies and television shows. When a new movie came out, Joe had to go see it. Space fascinated him, and he knew that someday, life would be like it was on-screen.

At nine years old, he heard the theory of the sun dying, expanding, and consuming Earth and all its inhabitants. The theory set in motion the most impossible journey in human history. Joe knew that as a species, humans had to find a planet capable of sustaining human life, and he hoped someone would find it.

I’m going to build a rocket ship and fly to the stars, he said to his father.

His father smiled and, after some thought, said, To take care of the transportation and systems to get at least a team of, say, forty crew members, food and water, medical facilities, DNA samples of animals for cloning food, a complete seed bank for desired plants and trees, and enough fuel to get safely to humanity’s new home, wherever it may be, the rocket ship would have to be big enough, able to go the distance, able to be maintained over a long period of time, and very, very fast. This would take a lot of new technologies, new inventions, and visions never imagined before.

Joe was quiet, thinking. He didn’t know how and didn’t know all the details but felt compelled to find out, and that spark of curiosity, imagination, and inspiration started it all.

Joe was bright and did well in school but lacked social skills. His parents worked most of the time and did not interact with anyone outside of work. Joe struggled socially in elementary, middle, and high school. He had a few friends but none who challenged him.

After many years, Joe achieved PhDs in physics, computer engineering, and mathematics from Stanford in 2004. While there, he met a fellow student named Ivan P. Grover, who also earned a PhD in 2004. All they talked about was space, including spacecraft and what one would need to travel great distances. At first, it was just something to talk about, and there were several others who had an interest in what Joe and Ivan were talking about. However, Ivan and Joe were serious. Rocket design took up all Joe’s spare time. He wasn’t making many friends, but he didn’t care—that left more time for him to focus on problems he was having with his design. It was too big, couldn’t go that fast, didn’t have enough storage, used too much fuel, and more.

Ivan was very social and had a lot of friends, many with degrees of their own, but he was fascinated by Joe, the guy everyone called the Brain. He knew Joe was brilliant and serious and focused on everything except the engine, which was Ivan’s passion. Ivan had a few new ideas on engines, and he shared his ideas with Joe. They became close friends and worked together in a lab. Eventually, they rented a building, a lab with living quarters. That was when the breakthroughs began to happen.

Joe took on the operating systems; Ivan took on the propulsion issue. To pay the bills, Joe got a job with the US government, developing reactive armor using nanotechnology. The body armor could stop any bullet or any piece of shrapnel up to twenty millimeters. Joe also invented a nanoblanket that a soldier could use for concealment. The blanket could mimic any vegetation, plus stop a bullet. Joe worked on the project for four years.

One night, Joe was working with the simple nanites, when he discovered how to build more complex nanites. After a few modifications, he had a new type of computer. Not only could it compute, but the nanites could converge and perform tasks in a physical manner. It was a new form of robotics with many possible uses. Joe thought, Yeah, like repairing and running a spacecraft.

Joe worked on a system he called MANN (multiple-algorithm nanite network), in which microscopic computers and machines with different functions worked together like the cells of an organism. At first, they were crude. It took twenty-three years for him to perfect the working system.

Joe was looking at some Engineering plans one day, when Ivan told him he had heard that experiments with nanites had been performed on people during the COVID 19–23 pandemics with success. Joe had thought about those kinds of nanites many years before but did not know enough about the human body. He needed to find some of the scientists who’d worked on that health care project.

After Joe met and wined and dined a few, he finally gained access. Joe began to study the nanites in a new light and, soon after, developed a few of his own design. Joe created sixty nanites that could provide a way to stay healthy. He began developing the code needed to operate the nanites to function with MANN. Once he perfected the code and had MANN assemble the nanites, he started experimenting on himself. The first nanites were to combat viruses, and others repaired human tissue. Knowing how political things could become, he began developing a special kind of nanite he would not tell anyone about. In fact, for seven hundred years, it was a secret.

During those same twenty-three years, Ivan did some impressive things. He worked with supercolliders, studying elemental physics. He was there when scientists created many miniature black holes, and he was fascinated by the little black holes. He also had been into rocketry since he was eight and always had wanted to build a new type of propulsion using gravity as a power source. He had built some engines the old way, using ions as thrust and a combination of chemical and ion engines, but none could propel enough mass at great enough speed. Ivan and Joe hoped to come up with a design that could move a mile-long craft at least four hundred thousand miles per second. That speed was necessary and could only be accomplished over time. Ivan knew that an ion engine would be dependable enough but not fast enough, so he would have to develop a more powerful, fuel-efficient, and dependable engine. Ivan could only run computer simulations and theorize on his new designs. He had built a few small prototype engines, but the engine he had in mind had to be far away from Earth even to be tested. It was only a theory, and breakthroughs were slow at first, but Ivan was getting close, at least in simulations.

One night, Ivan had a dream. Although bizarre, it led to a theory for a perfect engine for a spacecraft. He didn’t know what to call it, as it was a brand-new theory. He started building parts and putting them together. There were lots of failures. But every time he failed, he learned from it. He had no idea if the theory was true or not, but he started experimenting, and through trial and error, Ivan made a device. Though it was small, taking up only a cubic yard of space in his small lab, his invention could repel everything away from it—kind of like an antigravity machine but different. Ivan couldn’t explain how it worked, other than to say it was electromagnetic, but he thought it was like an air bubble in water: he always said the water was gravity, and the bubble was dark energy (DE). The DE bubble traveled faster the more gravity squeezed it, with less resistance of gravity ahead of it.

Ivan had to build several devices, because every time he tried to do a test run, the device would send him and everything in his lab flying, until the power supply was cut—the device was electric, powered by an extension cord. Then the device would crash and break a component, or the whole thing would be damaged. Twice, he required a completely new device. The expense was enormous and could not be sustained. Ivan decided he would confine the device and add batteries, thinking that would also limit the electric power, giving him more control of the device. He used five eighteen-volt portable drill batteries and added a converter to change from alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC). That should make the device less powerful and more manageable, he thought. He strapped himself to a metal pole in his lab to keep himself in place and turned the device on, and the converter burned. After several attempts, frustrated, Ivan hooked it up without the converter, thinking that if nothing else, it would fry the device. He strapped himself in and turned it on—and destroyed the lab and half the block in the complex.

When Ivan woke up, he was in the hospital, where the FBI had him confined for setting off an explosive, though they could not find any residuals or even the device. After three weeks of questioning in the hospital, sensors and the scientific community