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Today it struck me, something so horrible, so stereotypical. As far as I am aware there are no books with dragons starring in them that are set in the present day (I apologise if this is wrong).
I lay in my bunk for exactly four hours. Supposedly the minimum amount of sleep required to function. I lay awake the entire time, listening to the buzz of mining lasers.
He desperately needed water. For days now, he had been trapped here. Stuck inside this mechanical tomb. All power to the machine had been drained whilst in mid-flight.
I gaze up at the crimson-coloured lights above me. Smells of rust and oil waft through my mind as I turn in the tepid, ventilated air, arching my back to massage the part that hit the floor.
If I ever find the chance someday. I'll escape this world for good. Abandon it for skyward sights. I wish someday I could. I'd clamber up a ribbon of moonlight. As far as I could go.
Flying and soaring so high, but all a hoax, a lie, I stare up at the beautiful moon, and I know that I'll be there soon, A dream not real, something surreal, Control. Money. Power.
I want to astro travel. See whats out so far. I want to leave these hassles. And shoot about with stars. I long for a life so simple. A place where I can rest. A place where love can kindle.
Eleven suns rotate, they spin. As three million days and nights begin. Nine distant worlds unlike our own. This place I feel must be my home. Because I don't fit down here on earth.
It took many days to watch the star die, it's hydrogen envelope stripped off as her orbit decayed into the relentless pull of the black hole.
I snapped my gaze back to where he was pointing, and my eyes widened in horror. Just above the clouds’ surface there was a huge whirling hole in the air.
The time leading up to launch went so quickly, it felt like mere microns before we were in the air.
The starship Magellan was an oasis of existence in an ocean of nothingness. It screamed its loneliness through the inky blackness of space, crying out to the cold, distant stars.
'AAAAGHJESUSFUCKHELPHELPHELPHELP!!!' Exclaimed Johnny, blood gushing through his heart at the speed of blood, eyes streaming, and nose running like all manner of clappers.
There once was a planet, So big, round and shiny And compared to it, All of it's people were tiny A funny little race, All hairy and small Descended from apes, And not from there at all Their...
This is the third post I have on time travel theories, please check my other posts for more info and to help you understand this one. Let's begin...
I'm going to take some time to talk about Time Travel, how it could be achieved, and how in the future we as a population could think of travelling through time as nothing more than a bus journey in...
Disassemble the fleet You find it hard to believe In a place you can't see Waiting for you and me Disassemble the fleet In new worlds we greet Where love guides us in Our glorious...
What if.. A film was made where the world was going to end (nothing new right?) but everyone knew it.. So the president of America gathered 100 people.
Lilac lights shoot down on me, as I wander through the immense hall, legs and arms swinging in the spambreeze.
We say the genetic difference between a human and a chimp is about 2%.
Magestic night sky, Those twinkles tell your tales. Of what you've seen. Where you've been. And how good doesn't always prevale. If only I could read your language. Or lay among your stars.
"When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity.
A small song I composed one extremely wet afternoon. It's pretty awful. And In 6/8 timing. Watch the skies. Pieces are Watch the skies.
When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity.