Just read down here: It blew like a zephyr. Not a storm, or a maelstrom, but just the fast, speeding electrons. That is until the speed triples, going faster than a few hundred trillion light years. Up and in space, this neutron star spins way faster than most, nearly dragging the spaceship in, like a car getting picked up by a massive cyclone. Alexandria Walton and Joshua Frost were the first two astronauts sent into space to inspect neutron stars more closely and more openly. Their comfortable spaceship was small enough to fit both of them in a highly modified with scientific equipment 2000s house. The front held a huge transparent dashboard and screen along either chair and a special area for the spaceship’s control. At the back held their storage in multiple rows and columns of shelves. To the right and left were their personal rooms, fitted with beds and a place for personal communication back to earth. Today, the twelfth of August 2325, Joshua sat at the controls while Alexandria floated about the dashboard. Joshua pushed the throttle forward a centimeter and held there. He also moved the yoke a few millimetres to the left and right, coordinating slowly around the fast, blue sphere, glowing brighter than the moons in earth’s solar system. While Joshua was steering, Alexandria was typing on the dashboard, constantly looking up either at the screen or beyond at the wondrous blue spectacular. “We now finally have the neutron star’s name,” she said, breaking the still silence. “What’s the name?” Joshua asked, trying to multitask. “The name is PSR-J1988-4427ad, located in the constellation of Sagittarius 4 in the cluster of stars called Terzan 46, approximately 284,283,000 light years away from earth.” “Interesting, we really are very far away from earth now, even this spaceship would get back a few months only,” “We sure are!” Alexandria exclaimed, a little too loud and cheerful. But that sense of cheerfulness made a sudden mistake. It threw Joshua off concentration, and he suddenly banked left, directly into the radius of the gravitational force. In that instant, the ship spun around. Alexandria felt the sudden strength of the g-forces shoving her straight to the back of the ship, smashing into a storage compartment. Joshua’s hand and legs flung wildly, but the straps held him in. Feeling the colossal g-forces, he managed to look outside at the wild, fast moving spinning stars, space junk and blue sphere. Everything was in a blur. Joshua’s head throbbed with pain, and he started to black out, his conscious mind, transforming into an unconscious, lifeless pack of cells. The bright blue light swiveled all around them. Alexandria floated up and forward to the cockpit. Inside, Joshua slowly woke up unsteadily. He moved to unstrap himself and peered over to Alexandria, who had floated to the window. She looked down and started typing on the dashboard.
Continue down here: “It’s not working,” she said, moving her fingers faster and faster. Soon she stopped typing and looked up at the blue energy that surrounded them. Joshua floated to her and stopped, grabbing onto a handrail. Up in the area in front of them, there were a few words. “Three, Thrice, Thriapolmn, they all have something to do with three, each have thr, now solve the question, (THR + (R)) / X? What does Thriapolmn mean?” asked Alexandria. “Don’t know, I’ve scanned the English dictionary and haven’t seen that word before,” Joshua replied. “Well, then we do know that thriapolmn has something to do with three from the other two words,” “We’ll ask the others down on earth about it when we get back,” Alexandria considered the idea, “Sure, but now we need to get out of this thing. Any idea how?” “I’ll try driving it out. Best for you to strap up as well.” Joshua responded as he pushed himself up and over to the cockpit. Alexandria moved to a seat and started buckling up. After a few clicks, she put her thumbs up. Joshua nodded his head and pushed the throttle forward. The words moved forward a few centimetres before disappearing, a flash of blurring as the ship spun around and flipped back and forth. Joshua shoved the throttle to full and the ship shot out of the neutron star, but it kept spinning around because of the large gravitational force. Alexandria tested the dashboard and it turned on. She searched something up, struggling to type each word, before yelling in fragments, “This neutron star spins at 846 trillion times per second, engage the light speed boosters!” Joshua barely heard her before replying with a press of a button. The boosters flared even more before four more boosters popped out and blasted away. The ship rattled before suddenly steadying itself while still in a blur. The stars, space junk and planets shot past as the spaceship rapidly sped across the sea in the open space, the infinite world sometimes called the black sky. Joshua pressed another button as the boosters turned off. Alexandria let out a sigh of relief before pressing the call button. “Last neutron star analysed has been completed successfully. Can you tell us if 846 is divisible by 3?” “Congratulations! And yes 846 is divisible by 3, the answer is 282,” a rough, serious voice said, a few people clapping in the background. “We’re by the Oort Cloud and slowly navigating past,” “Already out and near, why did you use the light year boosters?” “Got stuck in the middle of PSR-J1988-4427ad, there’s so much blue energy swirling around, you could see some specks of electricity and maybe lightning,” “We’ll put that data down, " “We do have an unknown word as well,” “Which is?” “Thriapolmn,” “Judging from the data, it probably means three times the power of electric charges or lightning.” “Thanks, we’ll be heading back now, put this question through, Three, Thrice, Thriapolmn, they all have something to do with three, each have thr, now solve the question, (THR+(R)/X?” Alexandria ended the call, the ship boosting back.
