Listen to him, if only I’d made time for that! It wasn’t until the terms of the trip were explained to me that I realized that the Institute must have tried and failed, and now they were pinning all their hopes on me. Anyway, we got as far as sixty-five million years ago and I was able to confirm to the scientists that the extinction of the dinosaurs was due to a combination of factors, the most important of which was an asteroid collision with the Earth. Our planet had captured the asteroid and it was only after many thousands of revolutions in an increasingly low orbit that it finally fell somewhere near Mexico. What they found most astonishing of all the data I brought back was the hint that it wasn’t a collision, but a fall. As is well known, all racing time-bikes are fitted with a standard 200 horsepower chronowatt generator, so in principle all competitors should be able to go the same distance in time. It may be wrong to say that I was “sinking” in time, but that’s exactly what it felt like. As is well known, all racing time-bikes are fitted with a standard 200 horsepower chronowatt generator, so in principle all competitors should be able to go the same distance in time.
