Step Churning
L. Van Warren
FACT:
coumadin, known colloquially as "blood thinner" in the geriatric
community prevents strokes due to the formation of clots in the blood vessels
of the brain and heart. interestingly, it is also used as domestic rat poison
in a sinister cascade process wherein the original consuming rat develops
internal bleeding that does not stop. Fellow rats feeding on the carcass
of the now displaced rat suffer a similar fate due to the ingestion of their
compatriots.
FICTION:
Well since the invention of "in-the-track" position, velocity
and excursion sensors, auto racing speeds had been build up again. In the
unending quest for speed a phenomenon known as "Step churning"
began to occur. In completely automated races this it was not a problem.
The entire race trace, proceeding at lock stop at 280 miles an hour would
simply, like butter that hand been churned too long, turn into a mush of
flying debris, tires, kevlar, and engine parts. The real problems developed
when races that were half manned began to turn into body count wars, and
the tatoo-ed carny drivers were inevitably meat of the owner approved and
NHRA sanctioned sausage grinder ....