Sci Fi
In My Solitude
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. They also say if you open your helmet when there is no atmosphere your eyes will pop out of your head and explode. Others tell me it would be like boiling from the inside out. According to the posters plastered on the edge of The Mew, we would be aware for a few seconds before you basically suffocate- the air in your lungs would be forced out of your body and you'd be gaping for air like a fish before perishing due to oxygen deprivation.
By A.R. Zeller4 years ago in Fiction
Slipknot
Chapter 1 Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. With my eyes closed, and my lungs empty. The thunderous racing of my heartbeat rang through my ears, deafening against the silence. I relaxed, letting the sharp nothingness of raw, empty space envelope my naked skin. Rapid decompression was always painful, but it was a pain with which I had become accustomed.
By Morgan J. Muir4 years ago in Fiction
The Keepers
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. But if you scream on Earth and there's no one around to hear it, what's the difference? Tomorrow is October 31st, 2051. Halloween. I've been searching around a large and foreign home, hoping to find some leftover stash of decorations. Those who left, couldn't take much with them so a lot of houses remained eerily full of the previous owner’s non-essentials. I remember a time when a town like this would be infested by jack-o-lanterns, styrofoam graves and rubber zombie arms. I can almost smell varying degrees of rotting pumpkin mixed with dead leaves which used to dominate on a street like this, this time of year. There haven't been pumpkins for at least a decade now. They'll try to grow them, up there. Or at least that's what I've heard. But I've accepted the fact that they are one of many things I will never see again.
By Harvey Elwood4 years ago in Fiction
Proof of extraterrestrial life
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. It's a moot point, really. If your head was in the open vacuum of space your breath would be pulled from your lungs far too quickly for you to even get a proper scream out. And as far as hearing a scream, the simultaneous combination of some tissues freezing while anything liquid started evaporating immediately would keep your brain way too occupied to hear anything.
By Mike Luque4 years ago in Fiction
Ambushed in the Void
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Right now I wish they could though. If this peg doesn’t slide into place I’m going to scream my helmet right off into the Void. My fingers cramp again and I almost lose my grip. It’s not hard to imagine the heckling I’m getting from ship-side. It’s been ten minutes since I turned my comms off and I can still hear their laughter inside my helmet. Bloody heathens, the lot of them. I’ve been out here for thirty minutes and that’s twenty-nine minutes longer than I wanted.
By Darelle Cowley4 years ago in Fiction
Escape from Liberty
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Layla laid her cloth out and pulled out her stones. So much had been going on, she needed some reassurance. She reached in and pulled out three stones laying them from right to left. Her mother taught her to interpret the stones, the right her current situation, the center a challenge, the left an action to address the challenge.
By Michele Jones4 years ago in Fiction
Lying in Wait [re-sub]
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Sound needs a medium on which to travel; perhaps this quirky little detail about space served a purpose. Human progress throughout history has often been met by those who chastise us for “playing god” for attempting to wield the laws of nature. In 1996 we received this “noble badge” when we began to dip our tones into cloning. In 2003 we decided the title suited us and upped the ante by attempting to bring the Pyrenean Ibex back from extinction by inserting its DNA into a surrogate mother. In 2021 in an attempt to rid the world of Malaria, we bioengineered mosquitoes at the celular level in order to make them incapable not only of contracting the disease but of passing it genetically to their offspring, essentially culling out the issue in a generation or two. As our scientific progress grew, so too did the chants and warning about “playing god” with nature. But it seems there was one boundary we were never meant to cross; a law of nature which assured the very safety of all life in the universe - and this law stated that sound cannot travel through the vacuum of space….
By Rene Gonzalez4 years ago in Fiction
End of the Beginning
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Yet, that is if you were a carbon based life-form. For those that would have to rely upon the vibrations of mass like particles that would act as a fluid such as a liquid or gas, space would be a deafening occurrence to them. No matter how beautiful the cosmos looked when it was full of nebulas within galaxies upon galactic filaments, sound was deafened within the void that was space.
By Thavien Yliaster4 years ago in Fiction
