Look mom, no hands.

Eminent Domain: The appropriation of property by a ruling party to provide a greater good for the surrounding community.

In our life times we have seen this law enacted for the sake of public transportation, for building new shopping malls and parking garages. I couldn't imagine anyone ever expecting the whole planet to be seized by a single piece of legislation. God bless you, Dr. Paul K. Murphy S.J.

Dr. Murphy SJ was the head of an underground party whose purpose, among other things, was to consult national governments on foreign policy and generally run the global show from behind closed doors. The organization was every conspiracy theorists dream; the ranks were filled by members of the Free Masons, Jesuits, Skull & Bones, Avon Cosmetics, and other various federal intelligence agencies. I wish I could tell you the name of such an elite organization, but due to the extreme secrecy the group thought it would be best to not give themselves a title. The most regularly circulated rumors were that they had invented a time machine and we also responsible for regulating global interest rates. I over someone once saying they were pulling string for the '85 Bears...

The results of a thirty year investigation into the energy consumption habits of the planet had finally been concluded and placed in the hopper for evaluation. The report was summarized on a single sheet of 8.5x11 inch paper and stuffed into a manila envelope. This is what the 8.5x11 sheet said, "We are DOOMED, better think of something quick! You have three months to make a decision." Apparently we had been burning fossil fuels at a rate 400 times faster than our planet could keep up with. Prospects for alternative fuel supplies such as hydroelectricity and solar power had been dwindling for decades, mostly due to our own wasteful and destructive ways.

Doomsday became priority #1. With less than two month remaining until every last oil well was sucked dry, Dr. Murphy SJ had pieced together a plan to give the planet another shot. In short, his plan was to declare eminent domain on the planet, blow the dust off the time machine, beam the signal across the globe using satellite technology, and safely relocate our existence to a point in the future –giving Earth adequate time to heal our wrongs. The operation went off without a hitch, or so it seemed.

Peoples' lives continued on without ever realizing they had been beamed ten thousand years into the future. The only ones who noticed anything were the heads of the Big Nine oil refiners –who simply attributed the increased oil supply to dumb luck and clerical errors.

These forward leaps were required to take place about every 30 years or so. After the fifth jump a new problem arose and a new manila envelope was opened. This is how it read, "We are DOOMED, better think of something quick! The sun is going to explode! You have two days." Someone mentioned traveling back in time but this was surely a silly idea considering we had already used up all that oil. The organization discussed various solutions, the only worthwhile suggestion was offered by a simple intern –Sean Winthrop had a plan, a golden plan, a plan to save our asses...