Book 5: Chapter 41: A Disturbing Discovery
Bill
July 2343
Sol System
Ihadn’t visited Charles in more than eight years. Maybe not surprising, though. He had webcams going so anyone could look in on the progress of the Earth project at any time. It was one of the more popular BobTube video feeds.
The reclamation crew was making great strides with Terra, and two hundred years after humanity nuked the planet into a new ice age, more than fifty percent of the globe was now completely ice-free. Another fifty years, and they estimated they’d be back to normal preindustrial temps. The high CO2 levels helped as well, although there was a project underway to reduce that as well.
“I’ve been getting caught up on your progress, Charles. The planet is coming along nicely.”
Charles waved the comment off. “The tensor field printers are going to make all the difference, Bill. We might have to take some liberties with cell structures, but we collected enough DNA to recreate ninety-eight percent of species, if you include insects. Even some that were already extinct in Original Bob’s time.”
“And the climate … ”
“Back to interglacial. Weather patterns are still all over the place, but that will smooth out as the atmosphere and ocean temps settle into some kind of regular pattern.”