Complete the Story... *four shots later*
Not sure if your March was as bad as ours in the book department but here's a fun writing prompt for your pure enjoyment 🥸
The prompt: You’d think we would have progressed as a society after excommunicating Galileo for asserting the Earth is round, but you’d be wrong. I guess that’s the price of discovering something that contradicts everything we thought was certain. My team and I
You’d think we would have progressed as a society after excommunicating Galileo for asserting the Earth is round, but you’d be wrong, I guess that’s the price of discovering something that contradicts everything we thought was certain. My team and I… My team and I have discovered a planet with all the properties of Earth. All gases are a perfect composition. Nitrogen, 78%, oxygen 21%, argon .9%. We have been sitting on this information for weeks now. Layla our head astronomer and physics genius found it fifteen days ago and believes this planet is the future of human civilization. It is 500 lightyears ahead of us, thus, if it does have life, should be way more advanced than we are. We are afraid to communicate this to the U.S. government because, to put it bluntly, they turn everything good to shit. Getting to this planet is difficult, but not impossible. Arriving safely is a different matter. Picture a giant ship dropping out of the sky in Boise, Idaho. We’re not trying to get a whole crew killed, and start an intergalactic conflict, hence, not alerting the government of our find. I graduated from MIT with a degree in aerospace engineering. This is everything I’ve dreamed of since I was fourteen years old, laying on the roof of my childhood home with my first girlfriend Nina, gazing at the stars, dreaming of a new start. A new place free from politics, free from tyranny, free from all the people who lie about having our best interest at heart. Even at that age, it wasn’t hard to see through the veil. I dedicated my life to this moment. Layla believes we should bury this find, tell no one, and move on. I want to believe that we could explore this opportunity peacefully. Naive? Maybe. But, if you were me, how could you pass up this opportunity? Is this selfish? Maybe. Is that bad? I don’t have the answer. “Have you made a decision about telling General Mattis?” Layla asked. “Yes, I want to inform him of Planet SAAS914” I respond hesitantly, with a false sense of bravado. “Well, if you’re wrong, it’s just all of Earth that gets fucked, no big deal”, she retorts. “Yes Layla, I understand the gravity of the situation, but we can’t pass up on the funding to explore this planet”. “We can, and we should”, Layla fires back. “You really don’t want to know if there’s life there? Or if we could sustain life there?” “No because we're just going to fuck it up anyway. I found this planet on accident. I was looking for black holes. Let’s just make like we never found it, and move on.” “Layla, I can’t do that”. “Oh bullshit, you can’t do that. We’re the only two people that know. Let it go before you cash a check your ass can’t cash”, she lashes back. “Layla, I’m your boss, Jesus, have some decorum.” “Fuck decorum, you want to put us all at risk for some beautiful pipe dream of mutual interplanetary benefit, we both know that won’t happen.” As much as I want this, I know she's right. I need a whiskey… | You’d think we would have progressed as a society after excommunicating Galileo for asserting the Earth is round, but you’d be wrong. I guess that’s the price of discovering something that contradicts everything we thought was certain. My team and I have spent the last decade trying to convince the general population that time is in fact running in a circle. Fifteen years ago it was found that the history we spend so much time trying to learn from is actually the future we’re destined to relive. Roughly 5,000 years ago, we were reborn from the disaster that is our very near future. Turns out life is just one giant Phoneix. Humans only exist to continue to regenerate the Earth through the soil with our robust spirits. The cataclysmic climate change event will bring back the dinosaurs. We do not go to heaven or even hell, we get taken out by fucking dinosaurs. Today, I spend my time researching geological findings from all over the world. We pour over countless soil samples proving that humans are leaving a unique composition of elements causing a regenerative capability. What we are having trouble proving is whether or not we are the first team of this continuous cycle to make this discovery. Our latest core drilling machine, Cohella, has managed to drill over 50,000 ft into the Earth, allowing us to confirm our theory of humans regenerating the Earth and it running in a circular time structure. With each new regeneration, the cells and energies of humans have allowed Paedophryne Amauensis to evolve and mutate into the same creates that end of becoming histories dinosaurs. But like, how the fuck do we know if were the first? Are we in a race against time to stop the circular time structure and allow for a more linear outcome where generations of humans can continue to populate the Earth? Have previous humans been here before, making my team and I useless in our determination to save us from a repetitive fate? Are we even worth it? I don’t know, but I can’t bring myself to stop. We’ve been researching every sample and getting every grant possible to continue drilling these 50,000 ft holes into all different regions of the world, hoping to piece together the pieces of this complex puzzle. |
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So.... who wrote which? Should we combine them next week to create one epic "Complete the Story"?!?! Let us know!
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