February 16th 7:15 am
It’s a new day, and I’m still tired. We just started our meeting on level IV, and we will be allowed to level V in an hour. As it turns out, the satellite actually veered off course before crashing back down to earth. We listened to government communications and found out that there are two likely possibilities to explain why it veered off course. One is that the satellite crashed into or got intercepted by a Russian satellite. The other (less likely) scenario is that it was hit by an unknown specie or bacteria in the upper atmosphere. Another very unlikely possibility is that it was hit by a meteor. I can’t even try to guess what happened, but we’ll find out soon enough. It’s time to go to level V.
Once on level V we started work immediately. I taught the others how to use glove boxes, the sealed boxes that are used to manipulate material in another place. We used one of these for the room where the capsule is. We got a test rat and placed it into the room with the capsule. The effects were astonishing. One second the rat was alive, and the next it was on its back, unmoving. It was scary, but I knew what I had to do. “I’ll take it for an autopsy,” I found myself saying, “We need to know how it died.”
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