Everybody @page { margin-bottom: 5.000000pt; margin-top: 5.000000pt; } @font-face { font-family: "Cambria Math" } CHAPTER ELEVEN I didn’t know what to expect when I entered the Earth’s poisonous atmosphere. Death, of course, but what else? As I got closer to the ground I was surprised to see that the Earth’s surface didn’t look like the Moon at all. It wasn’t dead. There was greenery everywhere. I was even more surprised when I landed and found that my ship’s sensors didn’t indicate any toxic substances in the atmosphere at all. I hesitated before I opened the airlock. The ship’s sensors didn’t indicate any life threatening conditions outside, but I was taking no chances. If I was going to die, I wanted to die slowly, like my parents, not all at once, like a sewer explosion. I suited up in a police survival suit I found in one of the storage compartments, cautiously opened the airlock, and climbed down the ladder to the surface. The planet looked great. Flowers and trees everywhere.
