This brave mellonologist (seeker of hidden artifacts of the future) was the man responsible for the discovery of the Blatz civilisation, scheduled to occur 20,000 years from now. These artifacts were somehow sent back through a wormhole to a time that wasn’t ready for those things that were yet to exist….  He had a titanium alloy pith helmet that he had to wear to avoid the string vibrations coming from the home-built future scanner that he used to search this and all parallel universes. He did a lot of his work late at night, mostly to avoid the scowls of his family members who had never quite forgiven him for the one downside of the Blatz episode. Who would think that one simple wrong setting of one little dial would make half the house, most of the appliances, and the family dog disappear into an anomaly of general relativity? His reply to his wife that at least they still had both the kids did not mollify her. A hobby is a hobby, after all. And there were moments of real excitement, indeed. Like the discovery that, 20,000 years in the future, people (genetically modified, of course) were absolutely entranced by ancient Perry Como recordings from the 1950’s. When he first heard the strains of “Hot diggity, dog ziggity, boom what you do to me…” coming 20 millenia back through the ether, he was simultaneously overcome by wonder, nausea and a wish that he owned the copyrights. And there was that chunk of mystery metal that appeared in his inbox. A specific gravity of 97, a hardness of 11 (enough to scratch diamonds!) and a glimmering light blue color still amazed him every time he saw it. So what if touching it made his hair fall out….?

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