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Heart Shaped Locket
I inherited nothing from all my family gone, but this beat up and half-broken heart shaped locket. Not surprising, because I hadn’t counted on anything from them. They cast me out when I was young, at 12 going on 13. Fortunate for me there were plenty of gigs for someone with such a small frame, working along the docks then. It was a gamble to keep my limbs and fingers, but I was quick enough to get through on a dime or two until a hover ship cast me aboard and I got out of this depraved pit, which no one fondly refers to as Megalopoly.
By Kelley Francis5 years ago in Futurism
Project Sol
I shuddered awake. Not from a dream, though I wish it were one. The air was chill against my skin even under all these quilts. It was like icicles forming in my lungs. Little shards speckling my dark curled eyelashes. Through the window only meager sunlight filtered in; weak as if straining to warm the earth. The twinkle of a once radiant smile, now blurred by frost. The glass...its like a slowly shattering prism. The crackle of my fireplace alerted me to the dwindling of the last embers of life sustaining flames.
By KingSanIII5 years ago in Futurism
Two of Hearts
It’s felt like generations, but I knew it had only been four years since comms were cut. Four years of chaos, confusion, and the downfall of our entire small world. I sighed as I gazed at my surroundings, the place I’d come to call home, or something of the sort. Exposed wires and pipes, their purposes long lost to me, snaked across the concrete walls, all eventually leading back to the bulkhead that served as my home’s entrance.
By Luke M. Curren5 years ago in Futurism
Contact
The orbital bombardment only took a single rotation. I watched as the surface of the planet below transitioned from a landscape of greens, browns, and blues, to a gray-brown smudge of destruction with patches of orange smeared intermittently where flames roared. Our fleet’s heavy artillery smashed their ground defenses in minutes. After that, the operation was practically a joke. I couldn’t help but feel pride in the pit of my stomach. Or perhaps that was the motion sickness.
By Jake Fogel5 years ago in Futurism
ORIGINS:
The world of Earth had been a forgotten tale for millennia amidst the Federation of Stars when the small crew of three crash landed on its now mostly rocky surface. In good graces, not one was hurt and the small ship was stable enough to be utilized as housing pending the rescue. The mayday signal had deployed on impact. Survival was the business at hand.
By Tyler Cade5 years ago in Futurism
Dangerous Betelgeuse: 1.5 billion times bigger than the sun, may explode at any time? The scientist gives the time
Orion may be the first constellation that many friends know, because its position in the winter night sky is much more obvious than that of the Big Dipper, and you can see its existence when you look up!
By Jomarah Henderson5 years ago in Futurism
What psychological training is needed to become an astronaut?
What qualities do astronauts need? Manned space flight requires astronauts to have good psychological qualities. Therefore, on the basis of careful selection, various psychological trainings must be implemented for astronauts to cultivate good professional personality and psychological qualities of astronauts, which lays a foundation for the smooth completion of space flight missions. Good psychological foundation.
By Gareth Petty 5 years ago in Futurism
Where does Jupiter's attraction come from?
Although humans have obtained partial data on Jupiter and the moons and ring systems that surround it, many unanswered questions remain. For example, in 2018 U.S. scientists claimed to have discovered 12 moons of Jupiter, bringing the total number of Jupiter's moons to 79, eclipsing the other planets in our solar system. Where does Jupiter's enormous attraction to moons come from?
By ThomasinaRichmondym5 years ago in Futurism
Space Graveyard on Earth
The news reported the successful launch of a human spacecraft, and all of humanity shared the joy. Rocket liftoff and booster stripping go hand in hand, but most people focus on the ascent and ignore the fall. Where do these boosters fall after they have burned up their fuel?
By Ansanto Thomas5 years ago in Futurism
Three life lessons I learned from Command Module Pilot Michael Collins
As the Columbia Command Module pilot, he kept watching over Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin while they explored the lunar surface that day, the day we all know fondly as “the first man to walk on the moon.”
By Reto Bachofner5 years ago in Futurism
