Showing posts with label science fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science fiction. Show all posts

Monday, June 14, 2021

Reaction Shots: Cardboard Rocketship Recycling


The remains of a cardboard coloring rocketship from our Kids' department, right before we recycled it.

(Outer space was 2019's Summer Reading theme.)

I, of course, added post-its, meme-ing the remains.

Game over, MAN! Game over!

You maniac! You blew it up!

(On a more positive note, the baby survived.)

Hey, what do you know... it disintegrated.

You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought!

MOSTLY harmless.

Yes, we're gonna have to go to LUDICROUS speed.

Houston, we have a problem.

Look, sir. Droids.

...like tears in the rain.

Yeah, the same thing happened to my $2.99 mail-order submarine. 
First he's gonna sh*t, then he's gonna kill us!
She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid. I've added some special modifications myself. 


Monday, August 17, 2020

Story prompt: Science fiction sleeper ships

So... Science fiction has that idea of sleeper ships, like in Wrath of Khan...
Sublight speed is too slow to travel between stars, stars are too distant, so you place everyone in deep sleep hibernation, and wake them up in a few hundred years.

Some possibilities occurred to me...

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  • Torsten Adair Aliens find a sleeper ship, use the human cargo as a deep freeze of food.
  • Torsten Adair Ship arrives, passengers discover that humanity was eliminated by galactic government due to sociopathy. Minds are wiped, passengers exiled to quarantine planet for study, possible correction.
  • Torsten Adair Con job. Passengers were sold a dream. A hundred years later, ship returns to Earth, passengers discover utopia that was promised.
  • Torsten Adair Con job: passengers were sold a dream. Ships dispatched with bare bones tech, no specific destination. Multiple plot possibilities.
  • [REDACTED] "It's a cookbook!!"
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  • Torsten Adair Old plot: Guy wakes up early on purpose, wakes up moll. Moll doublecrosses, kills guy, wakes up real lover.
  • Torsten Adair "storage locker". Ship found as salvage, aliens bid on contents, then monetize cargo.