Astropup and the Teletransporter

Now there are those of you who have been following all my tales of space travel for many years.

And there may be some of you who are listening for the first time.

For you newbies, let me explain about who I am. My name is Astropub. And I am, as my name suggests,

a dog who is well travelled in space. And I might add, in time. During my long career, I have seen many planets and many strange creatures.

My companions on my travels are a parrot, who will be the first to explain that he is a genius and the brainiest bird in the cosmos, and a human called Marlowe, who, like the best humans, is loyal and faithful to his canine companion.

That being me.

So far, I have been telling the story of my life in what seems like the simplest

and most straightforward of manners. I began at the beginning when I was a wee pup, and then

I told you about a surprising adventure that happened to me, and then I told you about the even more surprising

adventure that happened to me after that. And then I continued to the next adventure, and

so on and so forth. There are many more years worth of space tales left for me to tell you,

all in the right order.

But today, I must tell my story differently.

First, I must fill you in about something that happened to me only recently, and then

I must go backwards in time to explain how this strange occurrence came to pass.

Backwards, I hear you ask. What kind of story starts at the end and then goes back?

Well listen and you shall find out. Just last week, I was visiting the Cosmic Academy in Cornwall, which is a pretty place on planet

Earth.

It's in the toe of the island of Britain.

I had been invited there by a man called Professor Perfect.

Who told me that he was working on a project that might interest me? by a man called Professor Perfect.

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