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Space: The Final Frontier. Exploring space developments and theorizing about how humans fit into the universe.
Meeting on Planet Sonder
Nitre received his new lead list, powered up the work provided Erotic Dungeon 2000 and began his crusade. Sure he inherited the oldest version, but that did not reflect any sales status.
Owen BlakePublished 3 years ago in FuturismThe Delivery
Sa’li had been alone for two weeks now. The near barren rock where she was stranded had almost no traffic. And what there was, she couldn’t afford a charter, even if she was near port. The moon was smaller than her homeworld back starward. The gravity still made her uneasy. She tripped over a crack in the carved stone of the ground and lofted into a nearby wall before stumbling to her feet. The air glistened with the silicate dust she had kicked up. An incomprehensibly geometric flow of stars illuminated by the long evening sun stormed from where her hand landed on the wall.
Space Wolves
Riley found the body heading home from the desalination plant. Denim-clad legs jutted into the path from behind the crumbling block of the twenty-first century building the plant workers used as a makeshift bar. The harsh rays of daylight ensured no one was around but her. Most people on Earth didn’t have her tolerance for solar radiation. Riley, however, had spent the first eight years of her life in space—born during her dad’s ten-year rotation on a space station. There hadn’t been any ozone to shield her from radiation exposure there.
Lorena AlinePublished 3 years ago in Futurism
New Horizons
I. The first sign of intelligent life has an afro. Her clothing is made from water, rock and sand. I landed the ICP. Stella, my orange ragdoll, meowed. We stared at her and she at us. Within and without time.
Marquis D. GibsonPublished 3 years ago in Futurism
When Glenn became first American to orbit the Earth
A week ago today it was the 59th anniversary of John Glenn becoming the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times during a five-hour mission, almost a year after Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin had become the first man in space and the first to orbit the earth.
Steve HarrisonPublished 3 years ago in FuturismThe Long Passage
As far as prisons go, it isn’t a bad one. But that’s the thing, prisons have a way of glorifying the mundane. The greatest smoke you’ll ever have won’t be of the finest tobacco, blended and rolled to perfection. No, it’ll be the one desperation calls for. She’ll have you on your knees, cut off from tasting her sweet lips. Then, and only then, when you’d do anything for even a smell of her skin, she’ll allow you to have your way with her. It’s short-lived, however. The moment is over as soon as it starts, leaving the empty, lonely gap between where you are and where you want to be, wider.
Johnnie WalkerPublished 3 years ago in FuturismA Fall Through the Atmosphere
News filtered through around 3 a.m. on the Mess Hall radio in garbled fragments, though between thick static and the lashing of the rain on deck above, much had been lost. The few words clear enough to discern pointed towards some disaster overhead.
Samuel J AllenPublished 3 years ago in FuturismPerseverance and Ingenuity
This has been a historical landmark for human beings and a breath of fresh air in the midst of a global pandemic. Hope is still alive!
SynneR De'Viant KhrystianPublished 3 years ago in Futurism
Why Is the Night Sky Dark? The Profound Solution to Olbers’ Paradox
Although it’s now attributed to Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers, a 19th century German astronomer and physician, this paradox has perplexed people for centuries. Numerous well-known people have tried to unravel it, including Kepler, Lord Kelvin, and even Edgar Allan Poe, but it wasn’t until the advent of modern cosmology that we figured it out.
The Happy NeuronPublished 3 years ago in FuturismWill NASA Find Remains of Ancient Life on Mars
As a child, I loved waking up early on Saturday morning, watching Looney Tunes Cartoons. Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, and others made Saturday mornings entertaining in my home. Looney Tunes introduced me to the character, Marvin the Martian. Dressed in a Roman soldier’s uniform and basketball shoes, Marvin played the role of villain on several cartoon episodes. I remembered wondering if life forms existed on Mars…maybe not miniature Marvin’s wearing knock-off Chuck Taylor’s…but life in general. Microscopic, giants, antennae sporting little green men…it really did not matter to me. I wanted to know if life existed on Mars. In the coming weeks and months, that mystery might finally be solved.
Rocketing Towards the Dreaded Kessler Syndrome
On 15 October 2020, scientists watched in fear as a 16-foot long inoperative Russian navigation satellite and part of a 25-foot long Chinese rocket whizzed passed each other at 33,000 miles an hour, more than 600 miles above the southern Atlantic Ocean. Had they collided, the debris cloud would’ve been large enough to put every other spacecraft and satellite in low Earth orbit at risk.
The Happy NeuronPublished 3 years ago in Futurism
Neighborhood Watch
I’ve lived in this neighborhood from the beginning, when there was nothing but an open lot filled with debris. It was so lonely.
Scott D. WilliamsPublished 3 years ago in Futurism
