The Day After the Day the Earth Stood Still

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The Day After the Day the Earth Stood Still

What follows is an alternate history scenario I developed a decade ago. It is, of course, based on the classic 1951 Robert Wise film The Day the Earth Stood Still.

At about 1450 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) on April 19, 1951, a spaceship entered Earth's atmosphere over the North Pacific Ocean. The saucer-shaped craft slowed to 6400 kilometers per hour at a cruise altitude of 61,000 meters. It passed over the battlefields of Korea, where American radar operators became the first humans to detect its arrival, then turned toward Hong Kong, where the British obtained the first accurate estimate of its speed. Traveling westward, it passed in rapid succession over southern China, the Himalayas, northern India, Persia, southern Russia, central and western Europe, and the North Atlantic, then slowed as it approached the east coast of North America.

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