Chapter Six: The Twin Paradox

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In this episode we begin Part 2 nbsp Pioneers and Explorers nbsp Here we get to meet some of the main characters in the story nbsp The setting is a corporate dormitory in the year 2086 and four young stoners – all of them scientists working for an aerospace firm in southeastern Canada – nbsp are watching the news program World Week nbsp It s a Sunday night and they re taking a break from their projects something they do each Sunday along with getting high smoking THC resin from a glass bong First there s nbsp Kelvin the once-ambitious Virginian who s taken a slight detour with his life as of late nbsp Next there s Gunther the soft-spoken German whose father is a government official nbsp Then there s nbsp B J the promiscuous wild child from Colorado who s never had a boyfriend but always has a date nbsp And there s Robin the flamboyant transgender from east Atlanta nbsp What they hear at the opening of the broadcast sparks a lively discussion once the show goes to commercial nbsp A space mission to an alien planet 13 light years from Earth nbsp Kelvin sees it as the opportunity of a lifetime nbsp The others think he s crazy