World Without End Page #2

had never been created.

Yeah, that is strange.

You know, if this is Venus

or some other strange planet...

...we're liable to run

into high-domed characters...

...with green blood in their veins,

who'll blast us with death-ray guns.

And there we'll be with these.

These poor old-fashioned shooting irons.

- Let's rest a bit.

- Uh...

I can use it.

Uh...

I can still see the ship up there,

above the snow line.

I'd say we've come about 12 miles.

Twelve miles in about four hours.

That's a dazzling speed

of three miles an hour.

How fast were we traveling yesterday

at this time?

Oh, we were only cruising,

38,000 miles an hour.

This is tougher, believe me.

See anything?

Forest, brush.

No sign of life anywhere.

- He's taking it hard, doc.

- Yes, I'm afraid you're right.

If Jaffe hadn't been the one man,

the man we had to have...

...I never would have taken anybody

with a wife and children.

Hey, John, doc.

Come here, will you? I found something.

- Think we ought to explore it?

- By all means.

Nature keeps most

of her ancient secrets in caves.

Hey. Hey, doc, will you look at that?

The creature that made this

must have been gigantic.

Look out.

Doc.

Come on, Hank.

I should have known

the moment I saw that web.

But spiders as big as dogs?

Poisonous, probably.

We should be grateful

none of us was stung.

Come on, let's get out of here, huh?

There's a clearing of some kind below.

Let's have a look.

Yes, I think you're right.

It's several miles away.

It'll be dark by the time we get there.

Let's bed down here for the night.

Jaffe, look out!

Doc, keep down.

Let me get a shot at him.

Hank. Hank, you all right?

- Yeah, I guess so.

- Come on, up.

Such inhuman strength.

I was as helpless as a baby.

- Were they men or animals?

- I don't know.

- God help us, this is Earth.

How can it be?

I don't know.

Look.

What have we got ourselves into?

Am I insane? Are we all insane?

No, Hank.

I refused to face the reality,

but now I know.

What are you getting at, doc?

About a week before we took off,

I visited Dr. Ellender.

You're all familiar with his theory.

- Of time as a fourth dimension.

Yes.

It's an outgrowth of Einstein's theory.

Ellender says in effect

that if you go fast enough...

...time slows down.

There's no doubt

about this dilation of time with speed.

It has actually been proven

experimentally.

Our instruments jammed

at a hundred miles per second.

- We may have gone 10 times that fast.

Or a hundred times.

Man has unlocked the secrets of nature

one after the other.

We've pierced the sound barrier

with our jets.

We've unleashed the power of the atom.

And now this.

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