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Life and Production: S1 E4: Limits and Infinitesimals
As Assured When Preston and Symphony had arrived at the Lesane Estate, they charged toward the space where the laboratory and the home met. Trevor Lesane greeted them by swooping to their level and giving them a bear hug.
Skyler SaundersPublished 6 years ago in FuturismStormtroopers Want to Party Too
I, IC214, write this piece to everyone who just needs to get away from their job. Whether you are a smuggler, cashier, government official, Jedi, pod racer, or in my case a storm trooper, take a break!
Lorenzo CharlesPublished 6 years ago in FuturismLife and Production: S1 E3: Heat and Pressure
The Capacity to Explore In the laboratory, Trevor Lesane came up with something new. He had explored the various combinations of what particular drug would fit into his vision. He unpackaged the heroin and cocaine and sifted through each with his instruments. Without a license, without goggles or gloves, Lesane Laboratories stood as the safest, most cost efficient, cleanest space for work. Heat and pressure, he presumed, would lead to the formation of a pill which would fend off any urges to shoot heroin or snort or smoke cocaine. Found at the peak of the Great Transition (GT), which freed up producers and consumers to engage in the drug business without any legal backlash or taxes, the laboratory generated tens of billions of dollars in revenue and made Lesane a billionaire. Also, lacking a degree, he discovered all of his knowledge on the natural world by actually taking part in it. From plants to animals, Lesane cultivated a wealth of know-how over his career. He utilized this understanding in order to convert the phantasmic into reality.
Skyler SaundersPublished 6 years ago in FuturismAre Extra Terrestrials Emotionally Indifferent?
One of the most difficult things EA have to overcome in understanding ESH is the possibility that they are not like us at all. They may appear to look like us if they are in a humanoid body but that is where the similarity stops.
Richard Van SteenbergPublished 6 years ago in FuturismOutrun Stories #48
“Take my word for it. The moment they make it through that door, we are toast,” Connor said, leaning back against wall, sucking on a cigarette, his Uzi by his side and hair slicked back as always.
Outrun StoriesPublished 6 years ago in FuturismLife and Production: S1 E2: The Time Step Blues
The Palatial Estate Preston Lesane pressed his royal blue pants and ironed his black shirt. He fixed his striped tie in the mirror. His sister Symphony dressed herself in her grey and burgundy skirt and white blouse. The middle schooler, Preston, helped his little sister gather her materials and assignments once they were both dressed. Whitney Middle School and Ashley Elementary Learning Center, Preston and Symphony’s schools respectively, offered them a private education all funded by donations and advertising. Saffron Lesane, twenty eight and standing at five feet seven inches, ushered her brood to their respective places of thinking and instruction, emphasis being placed on the former and followed by the latter. Most of her skin was the color of the the opulent spice for which she was named. She had white splotches on her skin due to vitiligo. Her face seemed to be cut from marble to form some bygone goddess. She called up to the pair as they scurried about collecting a pencil here, a smartphone there.
Skyler SaundersPublished 6 years ago in FuturismBrutalist Stories #48
There’s a giant in the room, and he’s staring at me. Huge sunken eyes, wide with fear that twitch and pulse in the dark. I stare back at him and whisper, “I will make chaos for you.”
Brutalist StoriesPublished 6 years ago in FuturismLife and Production: S1 E1: Pilot
In the Rear Sirens blared from the rear of a delivery truck. The flashing red and white and blue lights captured the attention of Vick Knight and compelled him to pull over to the side of the road. "Right turn. Shoulder," Knight commanded the self-driven vehicle. Out from his cruiser, a Maryland state trooper walked up to the passenger side door where Montel "Monty" Barber sat. “Window, down,” said Knight.
Skyler SaundersPublished 6 years ago in FuturismAlex Travers and the Stone of the Gods (Part One)
Join the daring archaeologist extraordinaire Alex Travers, as he unearths the legend behind a mysterious artifact and uncovers the plot of a hidden secret society in this 1940s adventure...
A.J. RobinsonPublished 6 years ago in FuturismMy Original Story
I am putting up my first chapter of my own story on here. If people enjoy it enough, then I might add more of it or try to get it published all together. Enjoy!
Review of 'ARQ'
Hey, I recently watched ARQ—more than a year after it was first released on Netflix—a time-loop Groundhog Day meets I don't know, Terminator movie, about a couple in a facility near the end of the world in some desperate battle, obliged to relive a few hours over and over again, because every time they're killed by masked then unmasked intruders, they wake up in the same bed, together, with memories (usually) of what happened to them in the earlier loops. This is because the guy is the programmer of a machine that can (presumably) run forever because it keeps regenerating its energy, by thrusting itself and those in its vicinity a little bit back into the past.
Paul LevinsonPublished 6 years ago in FuturismCelestial Astronomy - Volcano
After just completing the Mercurian phase in Celestial Astronomy's depiction of planetary evolution, one would logically conclude the next phase would be the Venutian phase. While that would be correct, we need to digress here for a moment to examine one of the more important pieces of planetary activity in order to get a better understanding of planetary evolution.One of the reasons planetary evolution is so difficult to discern is that you really need to combine the fields of astronomy and geology. Although legacy astronomy may enable you to chart the positions of the planets, in order to understand how they evolve and why they are at the positions they are at, as well as what they are doing at those positions during their lifetime, really requires an understanding of geology and wormation.Part of the goal is to try to recognize if there is a repeatable definable pattern that is taking place that will enable us to see planetary evolution through celestial astronomy as a structured process, not a random occurrence. In order to do this, we need to take a non-traditional viewpoint of how planets evolve so as not to arrive at the same conclusions legacy Astronomy has arrived at. A perfect example of this non-traditional approach is analyzing the word volcano. VOLCANO is a porpheme for VOLume CANOn. Volume as in a measure of space an object is taking up. Canon, not to be confused with cannon, a rule of conduct or official action similar to canon law. What this basically means is when you see volcanoes forming on a planet you can infer that the planet's volume is going to increase due to the behavior of the volcanoes.Whereas most people would probably be familiar with the term canon as in canon law in the church, the term canon when applied to planetary evolution is more like a law of physics. Though the concept of it being recognized behavior is similar to canon law in the church where their laws prescribe desired behavior. This desired behavior can be recognized when it is not being followed as well as when it is. Canon law pertaining to planetary evolution is recognized behavior of the planet's increase in volume because it can be seen over the lifetimes of planets. Unfortunately, up to this point, no one has drawn the correlation between the volcanoes and the increase in planetary volume. The key is that volcanic activity, when viewed from the big picture, is instrumental in planetary evolution. If the core of the planet is analogous to the root of a tree, the volcanoes might analogous to the leaves. Immediately, you might say but the leaves receive the light from the sun and the volcanoes don't. The key is that the cyclical nature of plate tectonics sending the crust of the Earth into the core where it is is superheated and the heavy elements are maintained and the lighter ones sent out through volcanoes is not only allowing the volume of the earth to increase it is making the core more receptive to the star's energy.So whereas there is no direct physical connection from light energy to a leaf, there is an indirect connection where volcanoes are instrumental in the cyclical process which enables the planetary core to receive more energy. Remember if the root is analogous to the core, the root is not visible so the analogy can only take you so far.So the main idea to get across is that when volcanoes start to appear on a planet, you can tell the planet is going to start to increase in volume. This is creating a repeatable definable pattern that will help to explain planetary evolution as a process that has structure and is not simply random.The volcanoes will perform slightly different functions as the planets grow. Once the planets have achieved their basic size, they are going to play a role in shaping the crust to define the terrain. As the planet's age, the volcanoes will play a role in helping the planet rarify its core to prepare for the journey to depart the star system and function as a comet again in the same or another star system. In the next article, we'll look at the Venutian phase.
Richard Van SteenbergPublished 6 years ago in Futurism