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Wallace Englund, captain of the United Space Fleet vessel Caroline, stared out his private office window at the only view he\u2019d had for nearly four years---outer space, in all its dull glory---and wondered why he couldn\u2019t get a decent cheeseburger.\xa0Behind him were the last three attempts at a burger made by the ship\u2019s food replicator. The first looked okay until Wallace bit into it and discovered a soft, gelatinous interior that still tasted like a cheeseburger but whose texture made it impossible to ingest. The second was visibly worse: the left side of the burger looked like brown gravy, and not in a good way. | Copyright 2022 by Gene Doucette. Narrated by Paul Boehmer.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices