"NOT NOW, NOT EVER!".     (01)

                                              (STAR TRACK CRAZY, "A Cheesy Ship").    

       The Captain and navigator is on the Bridge.      
       "Captain!" the navigator says.       
       And the captain says; "What?"     
       "A ship!"     
       "Where?"      
       "Right here."     
       "You mean this ship?"     
       "No, out there, a ship."      
       "At what coordinates?"     
       "At 27, mark 48, series 26, round 4, quadrant 8."      
       "Okay then..." the Captain says hesitantly. "Proceed to those coordinates. And see if you can raise them."     
       "But Captain, they're in space already, so how could we raise them? And we don't know who "they" are."      
       "Right. Proceed."     
       So they come to the ship, not their ship, the other ship. Not being able to determine anything from inside their own ship, they send out a team wearing space suits with jet packs to maneuver around with, and they are flying all around it.     
       "Captain, we've examined the entire outside of the ship, and we can find no way in, no doors, no hatches, no windows, no keyholes... Furthermore, the ship's shape is like a squashed sphere, and entirely round."      
       "What's the hull made of, can you tell?"      
       "I don't know, Captain, but it seems to have a waxy surface on the outside."    
       "What about the inside?"      
       "We haven't gotten that far yet, Captain."      
       "Can you get in, cut through it?"      
       "I... I think so Captain, but we're going to need some specialized cutting equipment."     
       So they cut into it.     
       "Captain, we've cut through the outer waxy layer, but the next layer is different, much tougher."     
       So then the Captain says; "Cut through that layer Joe, we must see what's inside that ship, you can have whatever you need!"      
       "Okay Captain, but we're going to need some really big knives out here."    
       And the Captain says; "You'll have them!"     
       So then we see a scene in which men in space suits with jet packs are holding huge knives pointed at the "ship", making "runs" at it to slice into it, accompanied by the music from "2001: A Space Odyssey".    
       "Captain! We've cut out a chunk of the ship, and it's rather tasty, and what's behind it is a cavity."   
       "What size is the cavity?"     
       "It's about the size of your head, Captain. And Captain, the stuff behind it is much softer, much easier to chew through. And Captain, we think this ship might be Swiss made."      
       "Can you make your way inside then?"    
       "Yes, we think we can, even if we have to eat our way in."      
       "That's the way to go, proceed."    
       Later: "Captain, we've found a much larger chamber aways inside. It is entirely round."   
       "What's inside of it?"     
       "Nothing Captain, absolutely nothing, just like your..."     
       "Like what? Say again."      
       "Nothing Captain."    
       Several away teams later: "Captain, we've all been chewing our way into this thing, and we can't find anything in this ship except for the occasional round chamber with nothing inside."         
       "Could they have all ejected from those chambers?" The Captain asks.      
       "I don't see how, they all have no entry points or exit points. And Captain, we're all full up, and there's nothing more we can do here."    
       So then the Captain calls Gregory to the Bridge, and the ship's doctor is also on the Bridge:   
"Gregory, I want you to go down with the next away team."     
       "But Captain, I'm full!"    
       "Then get unfull!"     
       "But Captain..."     
       "Okay then, I want you to find every unfull man on this ship for the next away team. We must find that control room!"     
       "Okay Captain, but I don't think we're going to be finding anything but dinner here. This 'ship' is very cheesy."      
       So then the Captain turns to the doctor and says; "So what do you think doctor, have they all gone crazy?"     
       The doctor replies; "They're cheese happy, that's what they are."       
       "Is that your professional opinion doctor?"      
       "Yes. And where's some of that cheese? I haven't gotten any."      
       "Oh." The Captain says. "That's not a good idea doctor, you see the Doctor never eats what the rest of the crew eats, that's against regulations."       
       "Regulations? I haven't heard of that. Where is that?"     
       "It's in the book. Section 28, chapter 4, page 1198, line 24."     
       "No it's not, you made that up. After watching everyone else get there's, I want some cheese damn it, I'm hungry!"      


       So as this has been going on, our view slowly moves out to reveal that we have been watching a show, and sitting there watching it is a man. And then another man comes in, this is Henry, he comes walking in and says to this first man; "Avery, when are you going to mow that lawn?!"     
       And so ends any more fun Avery is going to have today.     
       Avery was born just after World War III in 2040. Technically, World War III began in 2014, but President Obama did nothing to stop it, and it had ended only late in 2039. The world was in a slow recovery from a number of evils. One of which was this genocidal war of course. The countries of this war most devastated were Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, and Poland. Russia had to be taken down to their bloody knees to stop the fighting, which was not easy. Some blamed Trump for the war, but along with Putin and the Russians, the spineless appeasing "democratic" leaders Obama and Biden were certainly also to blame.    
       The other war started perhaps sooner, and will take longer to recover from: The Gender Ideologies War: Women against men, men against women, the establishment against the family, the Democrats against democracy, the Republicans for whatever Trump said...     
       So growing up amidst devastation and confusion, Avery did not have a happy or fulfilling life, and he struggled throughout his life with problems that most people don't have.     
       People had already been too dependent on technology sooner than the war, and after the war, they only became more so. Avery didn't think this was a good idea. He grew up seeing everyone using their computer devices for everything; telling them what to do, where to go, how to get there, what to think, and including telling them how to poop. So most people could not do anything without their precious device. Avery did not like this and was rebelling against it, he wanted to think for himself.     
       Avery doesn't like dummies; people don't think for themselves anymore, and there are a lot of artificial people who talk smarter than the real human ones.     
       Avery sees humans as stupid. He can't stress this enough. To him, humans are exceptionally stupid! They can't figure out this and that, and it boggles his mind. They can do other things; they can go to mars, but they can't figure out how to make a better bar of soap. Many companies go on and on, making the same product and never changing it, but they tout that they have been in business for hundreds of years. But in all that time they can't figure out how to make their product better. And he's thinking; they might as well be saying to the world; "Hey look, we're stupid". If people were as smart as he is, he tells himself, the stock markets would not work, and there would be no lotteries, because they would be too smart for these things. And he wonders why young people keep smoking, when it has been made clear to everyone many years ago that smoking is bad for one's health. Sometimes he buys a product and he finds that if he puts part of it upside down, it works better from the way it was designed, and he wonders why humans are so stupid.     
       He can design things much better. But of course he can do nothing by himself. Avery does not get into any groups. He has learned, that getting into groups, messes up the way people think. He's thinking; why must one be on someone else's side? For example take sports teams, he's thinking; don't they know that for one side to win, the other must lose? So they will be happy when "their team" wins, but unhappy when they lose. He's thinking; why are there all these sides? Democrats against Republicans, Republicans against Democrats, liberals against conservatives, conservatives against liberals... People get "into" a certain show, and become obsessed with it. It goes on and on. Everyone must be on someone else's side, or into someone else's thing. Why can't people think for themselves? Be their own person? Don't be someone else's thing, be your own. This thinking isolates him, and of course he knows that this way of thinking doesn't help him to get things done. But what else can he do if he wants to be his own person?    
       Avery is fed up with the world. He is withdrawn and can't relate to others. He has no friends, has never had a girlfriend. Humans disappoint him. It seems that they are too old or too young. And when he shows one of his projects to someone, he is disappointed, thinking that he might as well have shown it to a tree, for all the enthusiasm he gets from them. There's seems to be no one to talk to; no one likes what he likes, and he doesn't like what others like, and there seems to be no way to get a woman. He kept wanting a girlfriend, but it never worked out. People pay more attention to their devices than to others around them.     
       He sees no way out of this boring life, and wonders what life might be like in the future. He thinks a lot about this, because what else is there? Once in awhile, he will look up into the sky, and try to imagine a different world...         
       He usually doesn't talk to people, because what's the point? From the experience of many years, he knows that he's smarter than they are. It doesn't take long of talking to someone to see this. Of course he knows he hasn't talked to many people, but from what he's seen on the media, the people who are thought to be smart by most, he knows they are not. He wonders why everyone doesn't live in caves, because the things that he's smart with, they are not. He wonders why people don't figure these things out and live better without killing everything in their path, for he's seen many things go extinct in his life. What frustrates him the most about others, is what they do with their free time, because he has very little of it. He doesn't do well most of the time, so when he can do something, he doesn't like to waste it. But with others, he sees them wasting all of their free time. So he's very frustrated that he can't do more than what he can do, when he sees others wasting their time achieving nothing.      
       Avery has gone without a girlfriend for so long that he thinks, why bother. Most of them have a man, or they don't want a man, or they are a man. And he doesn't like their moodiness, a woman can be all smiles one day, and another day act like he's not there. He learned that a smile is not enough.      
       So now Avery this day, is now 63 years old, and it is the year 2103, and it is February 28, Wednesday. He is at the library printing out some papers. One of his papers that he had printed dropped without him seeing it. A girl near by, saw it and picked it up and looked at it. To her, it seemed very strange, and so wanted to ask about it. To her it seems like a confusing set of numbers crisscrossing across the entire page. So figuring who it probably came from, she came and asked Avery about it.     
       "It's my calendar." he says.   
       "How is this a calendar?" she says perplexed. "And why do you need one?"     
       So showing it to her, Avery says; "These are the years on these sheets. And so I can look up any date I want to, in the past, or the future..."    
       And so then she says; "I can do the same thing on my phone, so why do you need these papers?"   
       "I don't have one of those stupid things. And I like to figure things out on my own."     
       "But this is a lot of work for nothing." she says. "And how is that better?"    
       So he replies: "I learn more this way."     
       "So you know more than I do with this?" showing him her "phone", which is far more than only a phone.    
       "No, I don't know more than what's on the internet. But I know things that are not on the internet, things that others don't know."     
       "Like what things?" she asks.     
       "Well, I can't tell you now, that would take some time... And I doubt if you really have the interest. Most people are happy with their internet."     
       "But I am interested" she says. "I like to learn new things. And if you can tell me that you know things that are not on the internet, that sounds interesting" Then she says; "I've seen you around, maybe when I see you here again you can tell me more."     
       "Well, I doubt if that will work. I'm rarely here. And when I am, you probably won't be."    
       "So we can arrange something?" she says. "My name is Starla."    
       Avery doesn't know why this girl is paying so much attention to him, most people ignore him. But he certainly doesn't mind, females very rarely talk to him. But he's spent a lot of time talking with strangers in the past, and has learned that it ends up only being a waste of his time. But doesn't want to turn her off, so he says to her; "That's a neat name." And he meant it. And added; My name is Avery, and you're very young."   
       "And your very old" she says "But I don't mind."    
       "So I guess we both don't mind" he says.     
       So they meet outside the library on another day, Avery thinking she's not going to show up, but she did. So they sit down. So then Starla surprises him a bit by immediately asking; "So what things do you know that are not on the internet? I'm ready with my phone..." So Avery is surprised, even though he knew this was the reason for the meeting.     
       So then he says; "Well, I'm not very organized, sorry, I should have made a list. I will think of what I can, to give you an idea of the sort of things I have. Much of the time my brain does not work well. But I will think of a few things, but I don't know if you will not find these things on the internet...     
       And so Avery begins; So with pets for example, pets can have ear mites. So instead of using poison, which is what most do, put diatomaceous powder into the ears, which is not a poison at all. And that will kill them."     
       "Hmm, I'm not sure if I can find that on the internet" She says looking...    
       So then Avery says; "And if you have ants that have found the food bowl, instead of using poison to kill the whole colony, all you need is a bit of a moat of soapy water around the bowl, and that will kill the ants."      
       "Only soapy water?"      
       "Yes. They all want you to use one of their products for anything and everything. So that they get paid, and people become dependent on them... But using only soapy water, kills arthropods, or at least the insect type. And it works on all insects; ants, bees, wasps, cockroaches... People don't need poisons..."     
       "I don't know if I can find that on the internet..." Starla says as she's looking.      
       And Avery adds; "It's not difficult being smarter, humans are so stupid. And you know those shampoos that say "nourish your hair with so and so vitamins"? Well, hair is dead, there's no nourishing something that is dead. That's like saying that if someone dies, "nourish them with vitamins..." Something dead cannot be nourished. Hair is dead, finger nails are dead, all the skin that can be seen is dead. It's all dead..."     
       So while she's doing searches, Avery is looking around and sees that tree he's seen, that's not far away. And he says; "See that tree over there?" as he's pointing. She looks, she sees it, and he says; "See that one branch that has some leaves on it?"     
       She says; "Yes."     
       "With this tree, all the leaves came off for the cold weather, except for that one branch. Why?"    
       "I don't know" She says.    
       "It's because, when the leaves come off of a tree, they don't simply die and fall off. The tree, 'dejects' the leaves, that's my word for it; 'dejecting', and that's what makes them come off. But this must happen when the tree is alive, so this means that that branch died sooner than that could happen. Fruit is the same way."           
"Wow" She says. "They get dejected? I don't think I can find that on the internet, I wouldn't know what to search for."    
       Now Avery says; "I want to say, that I did get some of this from the internet, not all but some. But it takes searches that most people will never do to find some of these things. But I know things that are not to be found. But I would need to try to make a list of those, if you have the interest... And something else" he says; "Show me your hands, straight out flat, palms down."     
And so she showed him her hands. "You see your forefinger is longer than you ring finger?"      
       "Yes."     
       "This shows that you have woman's hands, or female hands. Look at my hands. See my ring finger is longer than my forefinger? This shows that I have man's hands."     
       Then Avery said; "Oh, and something else. If one is eating like lets say, some meat or something, that flies or gnats will like, and there's a bunch of those around, and you don't want them landing on the food that you have in your hand that you are eating. Then all you need to do is with your arm that holds the food, move it slowly left, then right, left, then right. So all you need to do is to keep it moving, and the insects will not land on it.     
       "Only keep it moving, and they won't land on your food?"      
       "Yes. They won't land on it, because they will not be able to find it. Because like with cats, these insects don't find their food by sight, they find it by smell, and as long as it is moving, they won't be able to find it."     
       Then Starla says; "Well, this is a lot, it's going to take me some time to check all this out. But let's do this again. I find all this very interesting."       
       So after this, Avery and Starla is getting together every so often, and Avery is sharing things and showing her things that he has made, and they have a bit of fun.      
       One such get together, sort of a grand finale, as it were, to show to Starla that he knows things that no one else knows.       
       So Avery this day, brought some balls of different weights and two magnets, one small, one larger. He says to Starla; "First, I'll give you an example of the way humans go wrong."     
       "Aren't we all humans?" She says.      
       "Well yes, but you know what I mean. I'm not like them. And you must not be either, to have stayed with me all this time. And not to be thinking of me as crazy." Then he adds; "But I wish you were older. You're what they call 'shark bait.'"     
       "You mean 'girl bait'?" she says, and then corrects herself saying; "No, 'jailbait'? Because I'm only 13?"     
       "Yeah, 'jailbait', that's what I mean. Although this sort of thing doesn't really matter anymore, I'm surprised that they have not yet made it legal for people to marry their phones. And I wish I was younger."     
       "So what is your age?" she asks.     
       "I'm now 64."      
       "So you're 'the 64 year old virgin'. Because you've never had a girlfriend?"     
       "Yeah, I guess I am."       
       "That's not so old, and you don't seem near that old." Starla says.     
       "Well all my life I've tried not to get old. And not to think old, but it's been a struggle. But I'm 64, and you're only13. That's a lot of years. What is that in years? I'm bad at math."      
       "That's 51 years." she says. And adds; "But I thought you were good at math? How did you do your calendar with all those thousands of years?"     
       "Oh, that's numbers, not math. Numbers and math are two totally different things. Most people don't know this. I'm good with numbers, but not math."     
       So then Starla asks; "So if I was older, and you were younger, would we be a thing?"      
       Not wanting to hurt her feelings too much, he started out this way; "Well, it's difficult to go wrong with cats."    
       "With cats?" she says with surprise.     
       "Yeah, cats. I'm talking about bodies. Most cats have perfect bodies. I had some cats, they are very loving creatures. Most people don't know this about cats, most people love dogs. I loved my cats very much." And tears begin to come to Avery's eyes, and he takes a tissue and wipes them away, and he takes a moment until he goes on with a bit of a shaky voice; "My cats were very special, they were what helped me to keep myself alive through the years. That, and my projects. I have liked cats more than humans. And cats have an excuse to be stupid. Although, sometimes I have wished that some of my cats could have been more than only a cat.       
       But with humans, it seems there's no limit as to the ways they can go wrong. But you have a great body, nice and slim. But I don't like dark skin." And he hurriedly added; "But you're too young anyway."        
       "You mean you don't like blacks?"      
       "Yeah, I just don't like dark skin, to have as girlfriends, but they're okay otherwise."        
       "'Just okay?'" she says. "Well, I think you're 'Just okay' being white."        
       And Avery adds; "And I don't like very overweight people. And don't get me started on the Mexicans, they are large bodied and dark skinned. This is partly why I've never had a woman; there's almost nothing but Mexicans here. I feel like a minority here. They let in so many Mexicans that this country isn't really English speaking anymore."     
       "But with cats, they don't disappoint me like humans do. With women for example, all I need to do is wait 15 to 20 years, and then she's not pretty anymore."     
       So then Starla asks with surprise; "You find a woman and then wait 15 to 20 years?!"       
       "No. What I mean is, there's a lot of very attractive women celebrities that I've known about. But after 15 to 20 years or so, they are not attractive anymore. And so then I'm glad they were not my girlfriend. The problem with them is, they can have really great bodies, but their minds are crap. So they don't take care of their bodies. So when they get older, their body disintegrates. But to be entirely fair, everyone's body goes bad with age, but these people do all sorts of stupid things that a cat would never do, such as drinking liquor, using drugs, smoking..."  Avery went on: "But a woman, when she's young, can have a perfect body, like with cats. Such a perfect body, that it seems like such a heavenly thing, that it should be worshiped, as a god. But there's her mind..."     
      "I can only hope that you will take care of yours, Starla. You are nice and young, and nice and slim. If you were older and I younger, it might work. It's very difficult finding a woman with some sense about her. There's a lot of things I don't like about humans, and the older they get, the more set in their ways they become. When I was growing up, women mostly ignored me, and I was able to do very little in my life. And then the point came, I don't know when exactly, they began to see me as just an old man, and so went on ignoring me. So I'm glad I have you Starla. I'm very fond of you. You're my best friend."     
       So this was what set the mood for this meeting of theirs.       
       So then Avery says; "So what I was going to say is, there's people on the internet who, because they find a tiny difference between two clocks, they think that that proves a connection between time and gravity. They are so focused on the minutiae, that they totally miss the obvious. So they conclude from only this, that time travel is possible. If they were smarter..."       
       "So you're saying it's not?"       
       "Yes, that's obvious! If it were, then there would be all sorts of chaos. But that's not what I came here to show you."    
       So then he says to Starla; "So now I'm going to prove, contrary to popular belief, that Newton and Einstein, and the whole stupid world, has it wrong; that there is no such thing as the pull of gravity."     
       So he starts holding up balls, two at a time, and dropping them together as he's telling her; "Now if the earth has a pull of gravity, because of it's size, or rather it's mass, then the same thing would apply with falling things. if, all this is based on the mass that something has: The greater mass more pull, the lesser mass less pull, then the things of more mass would be affected more, so these heavier balls would reach the earth sooner. But as you see, time after time, not to quote Cyndi Lauper, they all fall together. So do I rest my case here?"       
       And Starla hesitantly and slowly replies; "Nooo."      
       So then Avery says; "Okay, here's my magnets. Now, let's say my larger magnet is earth, with a certain pull that it has. As you can see, it has no effect on the smaller magnet or on any other bit of metal as long as it's not too close. But once it does get close enough, then what happens? What happens is that it starts moving toward the magnet, and the closer it gets, the higher speed it goes, until wham! It hits. And if we were to scale up this much larger, it would be a terrible and destructive crash. And this is not what gravity is, obviously! And so like with the magnet, once something it stuck to it, it's stuck. It takes the max amount of force only to get it a little bit away. This is not gravity. If it were, falling things would be crashing to the earth, and once there, it would take a large amount of force only to begin to pick it up."     
       "So let's say you are a piece of metal standing, and the earth is a magnet. This is what gravity would be like if there was an actual pull. So if you were to lay down, you would never get up again, because you wouldn't have enough strength to get up only a little ways, because that's were the force is the strongest. If you could manage to stay standing, you would not be able to jump. You could not walk, because you would not be able to lift your leg. So clearly, this is not at all like gravity. So therefore, gravity is not a pull. Simple, isn't it? Why couldn't Einstein have figured this out?"       
       So then Starla, not sure if she has been able to follow all of this, says; "So then if it's not a pull, then what is it? And how could Einstein and everyone else be wrong?"      
       "But that's not the question." Avery says. "You see, this is what's wrong with humans. They all blindly follow each other, instead of thinking for themselves. And they see something drop to the earth, and they think the earth must have pulled it there. And Newton tells them this, and the world believes him. Starla," he tells her vehemently, "this sort of thinking is what I've been fighting against for all of my life!"      
       "But you're expecting me to believe all of this only because you say so."     
       "There!" Avery says almost shouting, "That's part of the problem! Who to believe. Most people don't know who to believe, because they don't think for themselves. And maybe here's the basic problem; people put themselves into groups because they don't think for themselves!"     
       "I don't think that everyone could think for themselves and therefore be in no groups. What sort of world would that be?" Starla says.     
       "Okay Starla, I can't solve the world's problems. Certainly not by myself. I would need to be in a group!"
       So then they look at each other, and then they both burst out laughing.    
       So then Avery says; "So about gravity, if I've proven that it's not a pull, then what's the alternative?" 
       "Well, I'm not sure if you have proven that."      
       "Well, you think that over later. But for now, let's say I have proven it. I would like to know what you think."      
       "I don't know, I will need to think about that also. This is a very abnormal thing you are giving me." 
       So then Avery, being in a more playful mood than usual, stands up on a nearby edge, and walks along it, with his arms out to the sides to keep his balance, and says to Starla; "I hope that I've at least proven that gravity and magnetism are nothing like each other. Because if gravity was anything like magnetism, there's no way I could do anything like this" he says as he walks along on top of the edge. And then he says to Starla; "Look, I'm walking in the air!"       
       So then Starla also getting sort of playful, and perhaps with a bit of frustration, grabs up some of his balls, and starts tossing them over him, and Avery says; "What are you doing?!"     
       And she says; "And mountains floating by."     



                                    AveryStarla