The whole idea is incredibly unsettling. The more the man talks, the more it sounds like it could be a real possibility--like maybe the problem isn't that NASA never got past the moon, it's that everyone's been lied to for...what, decades? Centuries? How does that explain their farmland, or the stories her parents told her about the past?
She's pretty sure she was right the first time: the whole idea is screwed up. But it's starting to sound like the kind of screwed up the world's always been. People have always done unthinkable things to each other. Would it really make that much difference if they were doing them to all eight billion people?
It sounds like it'd be hard to do it, but the idea is still a little better than a different universe. She'd prefer the idea that they could find some non-Earth planet and rescue Maggie, Rick, and everyone else.
Beth shakes her head, worry pinching her features. "It doesn't really matter until we actually go someplace," she finally says. "It's all the same from here. "
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She's pretty sure she was right the first time: the whole idea is screwed up. But it's starting to sound like the kind of screwed up the world's always been. People have always done unthinkable things to each other. Would it really make that much difference if they were doing them to all eight billion people?
It sounds like it'd be hard to do it, but the idea is still a little better than a different universe. She'd prefer the idea that they could find some non-Earth planet and rescue Maggie, Rick, and everyone else.
Beth shakes her head, worry pinching her features. "It doesn't really matter until we actually go someplace," she finally says. "It's all the same from here. "