Sci Fi
Trouble in Denmark
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. However, it would not have surprised me if the screams Jessica made from within the Hibernation chamber echoed throughout the rest of the ship and made their way outside. I sucked greedily at the drink tube that provided the mix of water, salt, sugar, protein powder, vitamins and caffeine – known as wake-up juice. The screams became louder as my pod door cracked opened and a blast of cold, stale air rushed in and made my body shiver. I had discovered that no matter what I wore in the sleep pod I always woke up cold. This time I had ditched the uncomfortable long johns and went with gym shorts and a tank top thinking the change would keep me from sweating as much. Nope, I was still soaking wet and the stale air from the ship made it worse. I squeezed my eyes shut to help clear the blurriness, took one last swig of wake-up juice and pushed at the pod. The top went out then up and like usual, I slid out and landed on my knees. The floor of the chamber was padded for just this occasion. As normal, I had lost all feeling in my legs. It was one of the various side effects of cryogenic sleep. The doctors didn’t know what caused it, but it happened to over thirty percent of those awakening, and the since the effect only lasted a few minutes with no long-term problems, they simply added padding to the floor. As I waited for the pins and needles to start, I looked around the chamber to see who else was up. This was it. After 200 years of space travel, we would be arriving at our destination.
By Steve E Donaldson2 years ago in Fiction
this is not a place of honour
*OUTGOING TRANSMISSION* Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. That is a given; nobody can hear anything in the vacuum of space. There is no medium for sound to travel through. Space is the ultimate silence; we knew this when we came here.
By Charlotte Spurge2 years ago in Fiction
Into the Void
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Now if it was just a single scream, it could just be brushed off as something your mind made up to justify a sound. Unfortunately, the evidence reveals a much more horrifying truth. Its been nearly a month since the audio recording of the last expedition into space was released. It went viral almost instantly, and, for obvious reasons, was taken down within a day.
By Kiyona Fahiri2 years ago in Fiction
The Distance
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. I’ve come to believe that there are many things we are told about the way the world works which do not always align with our experience. For most of my life I held this tenacious and, you could say, almost zealous worldview that the fundamental features of the cosmos we find ourselves in could be mapped, observed, calculated. Predicted.
By Gregory Mallett2 years ago in Fiction
Milky Way Out
“Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say.” Becca read these words aloud as she stood in front of the display, titled “Memorium of the Lost Travelers”, at her local museum. She never understood what it meant though. In the virtual world, ships and satellites would make loud booms and clangs when they exploded — or at least experienced sort of damage. But in all her 15 years in the colony, the elders never explained to her it was fake. That those were merely added for effect.
By Aaron Campbell2 years ago in Fiction
Rope
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. We scream anyway. Whenever some half-drunk fool decides they want to take a chance on the Weekly Pot, we march him (almost always a him) up to the airlock like a big boozy parade. We all cheer while they suit up and enter the airlock. Once the door closes, we start to scream. It is the only way we can be heard from the sealed room while they tie themselves off with an old rope or cable. Once he is tied off, we start to scream a count-down waiting for the outer hull to open. When it opens, the chamber evacuates atmosphere and the idiot gets sucked out along with it shooting into dark space until they hit the end of the rope.
By John Buscher2 years ago in Fiction
Ad Infinitum
“Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say.” Gee said as he leaned over the opaque pod that held Captain Octavius. He caressed the pod with the palms of his hands, it was smooth like glass and cold. His hands were cold too so there was never any condensation. He thought about this, about his cold hands, about the unyielding disinterest in the captain’s face and he screamed “Yahhhhh!”.
By J. R. Kenna2 years ago in Fiction