A-L-I-V

A-L-I-V

“My name is Daniel, I'm broadcasting on a middle band wave length frequency. My call letters are A-L-I-V. I know it has only been five days since my ability to view or hear anything from the outside world has ended, but I'm beginning to fear the worst because no one has tried to contact me. I'm in a Government built habitat, I work for the United State's Government, and was in daily contact with my superiors................If anyone is listening to me out there, I hope you are safe in your own fortified shelter................If someone does hear me, do you have the capability to see what is happening in the outside world?............... Internet, Television, Aircraft, International, Coastal Stations, AM, and FM signals have all gone dead in this area. I'm hoping these signals are still active in other parts of the World but my ability to receive them has been severed................I assume it was a Coronal Mass Ejection from the Sun, which fried my primary communication equipment................With all electronic communication lost to me locally, I can't tell if civilization goes along normally or if this voltaic outage is worldwide................If you can hear me, please tell me what kind of condition the world is in and what I can expect if I go to the surface.…............I am using an antenna buoy system that is tethered to my backup communication equipment, which is this short wave radio................I'm alone here, under the Arctic Ocean................ Since I haven't heard any other broadcasts, on any frequency, I'm inclined to believe the worst is happening to our world. If an EM pulse was so large that it destroyed all electronics Worldwide?…............I'm sorry. …............I'm back.…............I'm probably just overreacting. …............I hope I'm a little premature with my assumptions. Especially if the outage is only localized and I'm just being paranoid.…............But if the world has fallen into chaos, I want to let anyone who can hear my signal know, you my friend are not alone................We just have to wait in our shelters until the chaos outside finishes destroying itself.…............From this day forward, I plan on broadcasting on this same frequency at this exact same time. So as the turmoil outside calms down, we the survivalist, will be able to organize into groups, to overcome the hardships of building a new world together…............I will periodically listen to other bandwidths to see if anyone else is trying to communicate with other survivors. I will then ask them to broadcast on this same signal so we can keep in touch with one another.…............I suggest you do the same if you are in contact with anyone or if you hear from someone................If you do hear me right now, but cannot respond at this time, fine. When you are able to, use your call letters so all survivalists everywhere will know what part of the country you're in or what Nation you are from................It will be helpful if some of you out there can speak another language. I suggest as soon as more of us are able to communicate with one another, we set up a series of bilingual broadcast stations as our main gathering points of information. That way, they can keep everyone up to date on what is actually happening in the outside world and when it will be the best time for us to leave our shelters................The first thing we all need to realize, no matter who you are or where you're from, that if there is annihilation happening outside of our shelters, it is not Armageddon. The Earth itself goes through stages in its own evolution. There has been five major mass extinctions already in our planet's history. Where the majority of life was destroyed, yet it led the way for new life to flourish................Please, just remember, change was good in the evolution of mankind when the dinosaurs went extinct and mammals began dominating the World................ I won't waste any more of your precious power if you can hear me. I don't even know if you have the reserves that I do................Once again, I will be broadcasting daily at this same time, on this same frequency................If you are in communication with other groups, have them listen in tomorrow. Take care. A new future is upon us................ Over and out.”

“Hi out there in the real world. This is Daniel Roosevelt Thorogood broadcasting once again live on call letters A-L-I-V. The only sound from the underground. Seriously, if anyone can hear me out there, please send me a signal or call me on this frequency................It has been thirty-five days since all communication discontinued from the surface. Which is one day short of the last time I had a conversation with anyone. I'm beginning to believe it wasn't a CME from the Sun, which knocked out all the electronics in my general area, but the stupidity of some General or President or Prime Minister or whomever. They had their grubby little mitts on those new EM Field weapons and thought they could strike first.…............If it is an electromagnetic field disturbance, which destroyed our once proud civilized world, why did it have to be so damn thorough.…............When this shelter was built there were cameras placed in different locations on top of the Arctic ice which I could monitor remotely. They were originally set up, along with standard climate monitoring devices, so there would be a visual record of the changes in local weather patterns, wind velocity, and temperature fluctuations due to global warming. Of course they would be ideal now to see when and if it is possible to venture back out onto the surface of the planet.…............I've tried to repair things remotely, without going to the surface, but I was just fooling myself. The cameras must have been permanently fried. Now I have no way of knowing what is happening................I'm holed up in a self contained bunker that I designed for the U.S. Government. They spent about a billion dollars to construct this shelter for a NASA mission scheduled for two years from now.…............Well, I guess the joke is on them. Nobody is getting off this planet for the next two hundred years or so.…............I'm waiting to hear from you out there, so I can once again come to the surface and see the sunshine................I've been broadcasting every day around this same time, on this same frequency, so if anyone can hear me, please answer me...............I know there has to be at least a hundred thousand survivalist out there Worldwide. Fallout shelters have been in vogue since the nineteen fifties. There has to be survives................There just has to be................OK, I know someone must be able to hear me................I will be broadcasting again tomorrow at the same time................OK?…............”

“My broadcasting day has just begun here at A-L-I-V.…............I was hoping by this time to be able to see the light of day, but I dare not leave the safety of my bunker. With no electricity to monitor the containment fields around Nuclear Power Plants or the Military's Thermonuclear Weapons, there could be hundreds or even thousands of radiation leaks Worldwide from this kind of equipment failing by now. Exposing whomever might still be alive to massive amounts of radioactive particles. I'm not sure how long these containment fields can hold up without electricity................I don't really know. It's not exactly my area of expertise.…............When I designed this prototype shelter, I did not anticipate the need for any kind of protective breathing suit. Where I could enter an alien planet on our own world filled with toxic fumes, ultraviolet radiation, or any kind of radiation. I have no weapons to protect myself against roving bands of desperate looters looking for clean food and water. The thought never crossed my mind that I would need these things. I knew this shelter could handle anything the Earth could throw at it. I didn't anticipate being alone here.…............Whom ever might be listening to me, I'm relying on you, to give me the OK................The OK to go to the surface................If the World has destroyed itself, as predicted by Oxford University's Quantum Mechanics Mathematician Samuel P. Learn, where are the survivors?...............He predicted the Earth was overdue for one of its Global transformation. Where there is a mass extinction of life on the Earth................He predicted it would be a new dawning age of enlightenment for any survivors................I can't be the only one who has survived................Well, if you are worried about answering my call because you might have to share vital supplies with me, don't be. I am a former NASA engineer who designed the Human Habitat Europa Six. A facility built so man could eventually have a research facility on Europa itself, one of Jupiter's Moons................NASA and the ESA gave their OK to launch the first phase of our ten year mission beginning in two years. Now look at them all................I suppose they're all dead or starving or something................The idiots.................My bunker has all the same hydroponics designs, recyclable water filtration, radiation protected walls, and stored, dried food supplies for a family of four to live on without rationing for two years. With the developments in harvesting techniques greatly improved for the Europa Six Habitat, the edible plant life I have growing is estimated to supply that family for ten years................My clothes are lined with small battery cells, so with every movement I make, I am actually charging each cell. All my exercise equipment is wired so that each workout generates electricity. I have all the food, water, and energy I need................I don't want your supplies. I want you to................To talk to me................ Please................I want to hear another person's voice................Sure, I have hundreds of recorded movies, hundreds of digital music tracks, and I even have the latest hologram technology of some of my old Colleagues lecturing...... ….......I want to hear from you................I'll try again tomorrow, and the next day, then the day after that, until you talk to me................For one hundred eighty-eight days straight I've been broadcasting and I know you are listening to me. You have to be..................Over and out.”

“Daniel here. My call letters are A-L-I-V................I will be broadcasting a recorded message for the next five to seven days. I have some kind of virus causing extreme stomach cramps and nausea................My first aid kit is supplied with all the antibiotics I need to get through this bug, so don't worry about me.…............I'm starting a new calender so all of us survivors are on the same page once we venture back to the surface...............It has been two hundred twenty-eight days since any contact with the surface was lost to me. We will still go by the seven days a week system, making today Sunday................So expect to hear back from me in about seven days. Maybe less, if I feel better................Out!”

“That last song you've just heard was the final recording of that fabulous quintet, formally known as Two Buck Howie with the Exact Change. You could have picked up that beauty at any of your local internet Independent Music Store, when we still had the internet, for the extreme low price of fifteen ninety-five. But if someone was alive today, besides myself, you could go ahead and loot those large chain stores for their lowest prices of the year, free................Remember to tune in tomorrow to the coolest station this side of the equator, A-L-I-V, to discover another new indie band called, The Boll Weevils. The same fabulous guitar player and extraordinary drummer were together in both bands. But I'll let you in on a little secret ahead of time, the music from each band was unique to that particular group!...............So fab, so fabulous!…..............To all you gorgeous people out there, if you like the sounds you hear today and every day, give us a ring on this frequency and we would love to put you on the guest list of our upcoming A-L-I-V jamboree! Its been Mother approved!…............This is Rockin' Dan Roosevelt signing off for another day, wishing for of all my wonderful listeners out there to go to Hell!...............I want you to go to Hell for not having the sense of putting me on your social network page as a fan favorite when you were still alive!...............So go to Hell out there in radio land, and I'm out!”

“Call letters A-L-I-V................Tomorrow will be my five hundredth day since I last saw the world as I once knew it. I never thought I was going to be the only survivor................I once had a girlfriend named Sherie. But she didn't believe me when I started listening to all those doomsayers who predicted the end was near. Funny thing, they were right...............She said she would rather die with her family, then to live in a world without them. I, on the other hand, was so afraid of dying, I left behind the one person that I now believe I loved more than life itself................My daily thoughts are about her now. I have tried, for all this time, to suppress my feelings for her, believing my relevance was crucial in bringing forward the new utopia of mankind................The absurd thing about all of this is, I wasn't willing to let any other human being come down inside this bunker with me other than her................I convinced my superiors to let me be the one to do the living test in the Europa Habitat so if the prediction of the end of our Civilization came to pass, I'll would be alive. If it doesn't, I'll just act like I was kidding around and we could have gone on with our relationship.…............I was so positive that there would be other survivors out there that I never dreamed of being alone................Maybe the choice of an underwater location was unique. Probably the size and materials I used to build this shelter were right on the mark to survive not only the alien Moon Europa, but the destruction of the Earth itself. The saddest part about all of this is, I could have fit twenty people in here and we could have made it work................Tomorrow................Tomorrow, instead of going to the surface to see what has happened to humanity, I'm going to stay right here in my coffin and let the body die. …............If Einstein's conjecture is true, where energy cannot be created nor destroyed, will my energy continue after tomorrow? Well, apparently, I'm going to find out...............Today is my last broadcast. Today................Hello Daniel................What? Is someone there?...............Hello Daniel. ............... I can't believe it. Ha ha ha ha ha. Someone is really out there! Ha ha!...............Hello Daniel................Who is this? What are your call letters? Where are you located?...............Hello Daniel...............OK, OK. Hello, hello, hello! Wow, am I glad to hear from you. Man, this is great................Hello Daniel................Wait, why are you only saying hello Daniel? Am I talking to a Computer that is trying to become self aware or something. Did the computers destroy humankind as predicted by so many?...............Hello Daniel................Or is this my mind playing tricks on me? Am I going crazy here? Am I really hearing this?...............Hello Daniel................Why can't you say anything other than hello?...............Hello Daniel..............Wait a second, you speak another language, don't you?...............Hello Daniel................Maybe you didn't think of bringing material to learn another language. Ha, that has to be it................Hello Daniel................ Man, right now I don't care what the explanation is, I just love to hear you say those words.…............Hello Daniel................OK. Ha Ha Ha. I am going to say things to you very slowly now, so maybe you will be able to understand what I am going to tell you. Tomorrow I will be broadcasting again on this same frequency at the same time................Hello Daniel................I will write out as many different greetings in as many different languages as I have digital recordings on. We will try to have a conversation with each other tomorrow, OK?...............Hello Daniel................Great! Tomorrow then................Hello Daniel.................Please, just one more thing before I let you go. If you can answer me in your own language, is it too early to go to the surface?...............Hello Daniel. ................Yeah, what am I thinking. You can't possibly understand me yet. Tomorrow then! Do not forget to listen tomorrow................Hello Daniel................I am afraid, that if I let you go right now, I will never hear from you again!...............Hello Daniel.…............But just hearing you say hello Daniel over and over again is getting on my nerves. So please, please, please come back tomorrow, OK?...............Hello Daniel................Fine. Then here it goes. Over and out!”

“Hello out there. A-L-I-V is back on the air................Yes, I am still alive and kicking since one of you wonderful listeners out there have finally answered my call................I'm just hoping that it wasn't a fluke call yesterday or a figment of my imagination and that the same wonderful person is listening today................Buon Giorno................Halo................Bonjour................Hoy. Hei. Sveiki................Ahoj................Allah.................Don't make me come out there and wring your neck you son-of-a-bitch................Hello Daniel................OK, great. Whew, at least we know I'm not going crazy................Hello Daniel................Hello back to you my insipid friend. Why do you always say my name with no emotion to it?...............Hello Daniel................Am I talking to a computer? Is that what this is?...............Hello Daniel................I knew it. You're a damn computer................No Daniel, I am not................Whoa. The computer has learned a few more words for today................I can assure you Daniel that I am not a computer................Then why do you say everything in a monotone voice?............... First, I had to learn your language................What do you mean by that exactly? Two days ago you couldn't speak English?...............Two of your Planet's orbiting rotations of its Star, I could not speak a single language. Today I speak every single one that was ever spoken on this Planet................What are you talking about? You say you're not a computer, then how in the Hell could you learn over six thousand languages in two days?...............We are not of this Earth................What?...............We are not of this Earth................Hello Daniel................Hello Daniel. ...............What kind of bull are you trying to feed me, you are not from this Earth?...............We are not of this Earth.…............So you are trying to tell me, you're from another planet?...............We are not of this Earth. ...............And there is more than one of you?...............We are not of this Earth................This isn't funny if someone is trying to play a joke on me?...............We are not of this Earth................Then where are you from?...............A Parallel Earth................What the hell are you talking about?...............We are not of this Earth. We are from another Earth................You really say a lot of bullshit, don't you? I'm outta here.”

“Hello Daniel................You knew I would turn on my ham radio today, just out of curiosity, didn't you?............ …Yes Daniel................I thought about what you said yesterday. We had Theoretical Physicists who used to explain the multidimensional Universes in terms of parallels. The funny thing is, they used to call it Parallel Universe Theory!...............I know Daniel.…............Before I get into that, I want to ask you a simple question. Did you destroy mankind?…............No one is dead Daniel.…............Then why can't I raise anyone on my short wave radio?…............Our essence has merged with humanity's essence.…............What does that mean? You are somehow possessing everyone's body?…............Our essence has merged with humanity's essence................OK, if you won't answer that question, tell me why you had to merge with humanity?…............To stop you from destroying your planet.…............Too late. It's gone.…............No Daniel. Your planet is still here. Your way of life has been destroyed.…............If you are from a different Parallel Universe as you say, why worry about what happens to us?…............To save our planet.…............I don't understand. What does destroying our planet have to do with destroying your planet?…............Simply explained in your unsophisticated Quantum Mechanical definition of Parallel Universes. Which is, Universes are separated from each other by a single quantum event. …............I understand the definition, explain it on how it applies here.…............Daniel, you make a decision to turn right as you walk, another Daniel in another Universe goes straight, another Daniel turns left in his Parallel Universe, for every possibility in your life there is a Daniel going in every possible direction. I am the Daniel who has managed total enlightenment. So I am able to interact with each Daniel.…............OK? So you are saying, because you are enlightened, that should explain how you are able to travel from your Universe to any Universe or I should say, from Dimension to Dimension, so you can communicate with me or any parallel Daniel. …............Yes.…............But you keep avoiding my initial question of, why? Why come here to stop us from destroying our planet?…............I can only explain it in terms your primitive mind can understand. With an analogy to your simple understanding of Quantum Mechanics. Your Finest Grand Pianos have 236 strings to them. Each string represents a Universe right next to one another, but those Universes are not unique, but mirror images of each other, as in your Parallel Universe Theory. Each Earth, from every Universe, is next to one another on the same point in time on each different string. All strings on the piano are wound extremely tight and are placed just far enough away from one another as not to touch. Yet if one Earth destroys itself, it is like breaking one of those piano strings. That string, no longer has its expected tension across the Universal Parallel Bridge, which holds all the strings. The gravitational effect will act like a vacuum on the space-time continuum. Pulling surrounding strings in to fill the void.…............I'm listening, but I have hundreds of equations telling me you are handing me a line of bull.…............Then look at the strings as having magnets representing all the Stars, planets, moons, or anything else having a gravitational force to it. They face each other with opposite magnetic poles. These opposite magnetic fields push on each other keeping the membrane of each string from touching one another. If you take away, or eliminate one of the magnetic forces on a string, the space-time becomes flat, or ineffectual in that part of the Universe. There is nothing to hold back the magnetic forces from either side of the flat membrane from attracting one another. This attraction eventually punches a White Hole into the ineffectual membrane, creating Black Holes on the two opposite Universes. Eventually causing a ripple effect through all the Parallel Universes, destroying all that once was there in all parallels.…............For my simple understanding, you're saying, I have three pieces of paper with a magnet attached to each one, pushing themselves away from each other. If I take the middle magnet out of the equation the other two will attract each other, pulling themselves into the middle piece of paper. Which creates a White Hole on the center page and creating two Black Holes on the other two pages.…............Simply speaking................Has this ever happened before, elsewhere in the Universe?...............Yes................Then why haven't we ever observed a Galaxy with two Black Holes?...............We continually prevent it from ever happening in our Galaxy................ But the Cosmo is evolving all the time. How can you stop changes in the different Universes in every dimension? …............We are not. We only effect what will affect us if we do nothing.…............So you are trying to tell me, if this Earth would destroy itself, eventually the void would cause a wave of destruction among all the Earths in every dimension?…............Yes.…............And how long will this take, to destroy all the Earths?…............As measured by Earth's rotation around the Sun. One point three billion years.…..............Why the hell do you care what happens in 1.3 billion years?…............It is calculated that our world will be the first to become a Black Hole.…............Why not move?…............It is our home.…............You've got to be kidding me?…............It is our home.…............For being enlightened, you guys sure seem to be pretty sentimental about your home planet. …............It is our home.…............Why are you telling me all of this?…............We want you to come out to the surface so you can be cleansed with your planet.…............What do you mean, cleansed?…............So the pessimistic virus you carry in your mind will not affect the ones who have been cleansed.…............I don't like the way that sounds!…............We want you to come out to the surface so you can be cleansed with your planet. …............What if I don't?…............We want you to come out to the surface so you can be cleansed with your planet.…............How come you can't reach me in my habitat? Why do you need me to come to the surface? …..............We want you to come out to the surface so you can be cleansed with your planet.…............It must be something inside the structure of the habitat I created for the Europa Moon Mission, isn't it! You can't reach me in here, can you?…............We want you to come out to the surface so you can be cleansed with your planet.…............And now you won't answer any of my questions!…............We want you to come out to the surface so you can be cleansed with your planet.…............You're still not telling me everything. I think I'll listen to the recordings I just made of our conversation and talk to you tomorrow................It is the truth Daniel................If you think I'm going to believe that bunch of bull, you are sadly mistaken. What a bunch of crap.…............It is the truth Daniel................You know what I think? I think it's a lot simpler than that. It's as simple as having a dislike for doppelgängers in other dimensions................Daniel, it is the truth................Yeah, right................It is the truth. ...............Daniel?...............It is the truth................Daniel?...............”

“Hello Daniel.…............Wow, you must have been listening to my broadcasts for a while, since you obviously know my routine so well.…............We want you to come out to the surface so you can be cleansed with your planet.…........….Oh, that again. Tell me something. Why didn't you just let me kill myself the other day instead of trying to convince me to come out of my bunker?…............We are not here to kill human beings. Our essence has merged with humanity's essence.…............Yeah, that merging of essence has me a little worried and wondering what you're really up to!…........….We want you to come out to the surface so you can be cleansed with your planet.…............Cleansing and merging. I'm not so sure you are really telling me the whole truth! …............ Daniel! This is not a child's game we are playing here! It is vital that you come out now to the surface so you can be cleansed with your planet!…............You see, I don't think you're telling me the whole truth, the real, because of how you've changed over the last few days! I've noticed that from the first day, when you only spoke two words in a monotone voice, that you are now using our English grammar more fluently and with a lot of emotion to it! I'm wondering if you are not some kind of child yourself. Just now understanding how the human race thinks and you're growing bolder as you gain more knowledge. You talk about cleansing the human race. Our planet's history has also had many tyrant Dictators who wanted to cleanse this or that race who they felt were inferior. They wanted to eliminate those people from our Planet. And right about now I'm thinking you are not as superior, or as friendly as you say.…............Don't be so absurd! You are but a microorganism to us on the evolutionary scale!…............Well, well! For someone who is here to merge with us humans, I believe your lack of a calm superior attitude is showing.…............Daniel if you don't come out we cannot help you. You will be alone. …............ So, you want to help this protoplasm. So I won't be alone? …............ Daniel, we will be leaving shortly. You must come out now and be cleansed with your planet. Time is of the essences.…............I don't think so! I believe you sent an EM Field which crippled our planet's defenses so you could implement whatever vulgar deviant plan you have for mankind. You knew chaos would ensue once all electronic devices were destroyed and then you could have your way with the survivors.…............Daniel, you are becoming paranoid.…............What have you really done with the World's population?…............Daniel, you must come out now so you can be cleansed with your planet.…............I believe I'm actually going to watch some old reruns of my favorite TV show and listen to some music for a month or so. Then, if you are still around, maybe you'll give me some honest answers. Over and out!…............Hello Daniel.…............Daniel?…............Daniele?...............”

“Hi, this is Cat Sands, or Catherine Sands. Call letters W-M-E-X. I'm broadcasting from a substation out in the Mojave Desert for a Spanish speaking FM radio station covering the Las Vegas, Nevada area. I had two other companions here with me, both engineers, but I'm alone now. Each one of them decided to go to Vegas, on separate occasions, to evaluate what the conditions were like in the city. I was hoping they would bring back food and supplies. Neither one has returned. I have rigged up an ancient short wave radio and rewired a gas generator so I am able to broadcast once again. Please contact me at this frequency. This message will automatically repeat itself every half hour. Please contact me. Let me know I'm not alone!”

Hello Catherine.…............Is someone really there?…............Hello Catherine.…............Is that a woman's voice I hear?...............Hello Catherine................Finally, after all this time! Yes, this is Cat Sands. Who am I speaking with?…............Hello Catherine.”