Well, that was certainly an idea. "I'll have to ask my friend," he said with a frown. "He's... we're, rather... actually from a good distance in the future, apparently. It doesn't make much of a difference in my case, because of the difference in planets and all, but he's from Earth, so it's possible he might have heard something about it."

If there was any connection between their worlds at all. Weren't their people apparently from all different variations of Earth? Would an incident like this span all of them?