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18: Dark Times Ahead
I T W A S T H R E E o'clock in the afternoon when back at Carter•Labs, the loud sound of a blaring alarm had gone off, getting everyone's attention.
Carter had rushed to a monitor where he was then looking at something he had never seen before.
Warning! Extraterrestrial breach identified.
The voice of Sally, the AI followed after the alarm.
"What is it?" asked Katie.
From the monitor, Carter could see a 3-D scaled representation of the earth's atmosphere and outer space where the different layers of the atmosphere were aligned with different colors; the innermost layer, the Troposphere being white; then the Stratosphere with yellow; then the Mesosphere orange; the Thermosphere and Ionosphere green and all the way to the Exosphere and Magnetosphere which had a rich dark color.
The dark colored space appeared
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