Exerpt from Project Deep Space The Planet 'G' Adventure A science fiction Story by H. Preston
					Approximately 650 years ago, in a hospital on a far away planet, the last members of the medical staff realized that they had about three months to live.  In four months the 850 patients who lay comotose in the wards would revive and find that there was no professional staff to complete their treatment.  The staff knew what was coming and had spent the last year preparing for this time. They were as ready as they could get -- they had neither the time nor the energy to do anything else.  All of the surgery had been completed and the last of the required medication had been administered.  All the patients had to do now was survive -- if they didn't, this was the end of the human race.  .
		"We will all be dead four months from now when they revive and they will have to take care of themselves, said Dr. Armexi, the chief surgeon, they are the best of the survivors.  They have outlived 80 billion people.  Now these 850 survivors are responsible for the continuation of human existence on this planet -- the last hope for survival of humanity.   This was more than 800 years before the new space ship Mirage left the planet Earth and landed a group of scientists on this deadly planet.  The landing party found a thriving planet with a population of more than 22 million people -- but something was wrong -- they all looked like some famous Earth people who had lived some 350 years ago. After the landing party had been on the planet for more than a month, they were contacted by one of the planet's residents who looked exactly like George Washington -- The first president of the United States.  George Washington explained that the planet's atmoshere was contaminated and they must leave at once or be prepared to die a lingering and painful death.  Hearing of the danger of remaining on the planet, the crew of the landing craft prepared for immediate departure, only to discover that the contaminated air had already rendered their landing craft inoperative.  They were stranded on the planet -- and doomed to a slow and painful death.  A short time after they discovered they could not depart, George Washington paid them another visit and explained that his people had survived by converting themselves to a different form that was immune to the contaminated air.  He offered to perform the coversion on the members of the landing party, explaininmg that it would take several years and they would be very different from their present form. The members of the landing party, which included the commander of the Mirage, which had continued on its journey back to Earth without them, all agreed to accept the conversion, which made tham immune to the contaminated air, because they no longer had to breathe.  The conversion  also made them incapable of audible speech and increased their body weight by a factor of three -- their average body weight was nearly 600 pounds for men and 400 for women!  Some other more striking differences also resulted from the conversion.