Posts Tagged ‘Space’
Jan
String Theory Adventures
by thegooddoctor in 100 Words
Captain Zerxes watched as three Galactic Frigates closed in on their position. With the hyperdrive destroyed, escape at light speed was impossible.
“Incoming!” shouted Commander Bishop. Three Deuterium Torpedoes had locked onto their position.
“Prepare for impact,” the captain ordered.
“We’ll be destroyed for sure.”
Zerxes could at least take solace in his first officer’s death. He was always stating the obvious. It was very annoying.
“Don’t forget,” the captain lectured. “We may have failed in this timeline, but upon entering the worm hole we created multiple realities. We will succeed in at least one of them. It’s simple mathematics.”
Genre: Science Fiction
Dec
They Won’t Make A Monkey Out Of Him
by thegooddoctor in 100 Words
Even in childhood, William George dreamed of traveling in space. Rather than play outside, he would read science magazines. Instead of trips to the zoo, he built telescopes.
During adolescence, there were few friends, and no girls. Though he disliked sports, he ran cross-country in order to meet the physical requirements. He received his doctorate in Mathematics before he had turned twenty-five.
NASA immediately accepted him into the astronaut program.
Thirty years later, he still has never been to the zoo. How could he go to the primate house knowing that chimpanzees have been to outer space, but not him?