By the year 2090 we had all become aware of Earth’s impending doom. The threat of the Sun burning out was forecast almost a century before, but attention wasn’t paid until 2090.

             In 2095 plans for colonization on the moon had been canceled due to the moon being an unliveable environment. For years alternatives were brain stormed. Other planets were out of the question. They weren’t only to far but also uninhabitable.

            A scientist by the name of Richard Sizor brought forth the idea of constructing worlds. NASA welcomed the idea with outstretched arms. He postulated if worlds were to be constructed out of metal and inlayed with dirt, then the planet would be liveable as long as the appropriate gasses were produced.

            He was right! Sizor and his team immediately began construction of our new worlds. By year 3010, Sizor and his team of engineers had built the cores for over 300 worlds. The cores are round, made entirely of metal, and constructed inside the cores are the oxygen machines that provide breathable air and the exact atmosphere Earth had.

            Since each state in America and sector around the world was appointed one world, each state was allowed to bring only one landmark to their new world. Each state chose to keep a historic building with the exception of New York and California. New York chose the Statue of Liberty. California chose to keep a beach, so a building was constructed in which encased the beach.

            Sizor was in his end years by the time all the worlds were covered in dirt, all the landmarks were moved, and all the buildings were constructed.

            Sizor had made certain that all the worlds had water reserves, pools, and of course, light. Since the Sun was to burn out in year 3030. Sizor equipped each world to two different water reserves. On the water reserves he manufactured make-shift Suns, by using thousands of tanning bulbs. They run on a timer allowing us to have day and night at the correct times.

            For the next few years, each world was propelled into space. And city by city, people were flown into space to live on their worlds.

            I live on world 259, formally California, every month I go visit my family on world 245, formerly Kansas. Sometimes I go to France. World flights all cost the same whether it be Kansas to Oklahoma or New York to Australia.

            The year is now year 3045 exactly 15 years after the sun burned out. Our 300 worlds have all been floating together in the never ending reaches of space. None of the worlds have collided into other worlds nor have they been sucked into a planet’s orbit. NASA did an excellent job in propelling the worlds through space in such a clear path, devoid of planets.

            Today, Sizor’s birthday is celebrated every year, on June 12th, as the mark of Earth’s extension rather than extinction.

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“Where will we be in 3045? Floating on metal planets or living happily on Earth?”

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