Sci Fi
The Planet Epenthet
by: Dennis R. Humphreys Twenty-four days after their stop over at the planet Risus for supplies they ran into trouble. The two astronauts where on an exploratory mission for their mining company in this quadrant of the galaxy. They were looking for precious metals and a mineral called diopolite, which was rare but non-expendable energy source various worlds were using. They tested planets, planetoids, moons and asteroids in their efforts. They'd do chromograph testing first. If it looked good, they would send robots to the surface to do the drilling ansd tests.
By Dennis Humphreys4 years ago in Fiction
Scion
38 carefully wrapped the two shorn branches together with a clear sheet, her fingers deftly weaving around them with practiced precision. The trick was to bind them tight enough that the two stalks wouldn’t become dislodged, even if the ship’s artificial gravity had one of its occasional hiccups. She took a step back to admire her work. The roots of certain plants handled the rigors of interstellar travel better than others, and 38 had found that by grafting two different species together she could ensure the survival of some of the more fragile specimens in her care.
By Austin Evans4 years ago in Fiction
The worlds of the K819 Star System.
This is a story about the planets of an imagined star system, supposedly a few dozen light years from Earth. I am an artist and work in a variety of media and this include digital artwork. I have been experimenting with a piece of computer software called Terragen which can be used to create realistic landscape scenes. The application uses procedural mathematics - such as Perlin fractals - rather than manual sculpting. The advantage of this method is that landscape features of all scales can be rendered, from pebbles and vegetation, to entire planets. Using this software, I have created images of a series of planets with varying and interesting environmental conditions depending on their distance from the imagined star K819.
By Vince Woodward4 years ago in Fiction
Clear sky blue
In I told takanami will follow him to the decision of the institute of lightning, "he said," before you make a final decision, I should clarify something: I know you're thinking right now is ball lightning, although our starting point is different, I am also bullish on this project, but you want to know, at first, I can't get in with a lot of power to get you on the project. Do you know why Chang Bin failed? He's stuck in theory! But I can't blame him. It's just a matter of circumstances. This two years my impression to you is to ignore the experiment, wrong, you do doctoral program I didn't consider experiment, because the investment of this experiment is too high, according to our existing conditions, fundamental do bad, not accurate and even not true pull theory, the result of the remarks made me rediscover the takanami this man, so active like him on the academic thought, It is rare to be so realistic in society, which is probably the characteristic of people coming out of MIT. In fact, I think as he does, I understand that building basic experimental facilities is essential to ball lightning research, because the mark of success in ball lightning research is to create it artificially. These facilities should include, first of all, large lightning simulators, as well as sophisticated magnetic field generators and more sophisticated sensor detection systems, which are bound to have a mind-boggling budget. I'm not a nerd. I know that in order to achieve my dreams, I have to start from reality.
By Delia Robin4 years ago in Fiction
Novosibirsk, Russian Federation
I started counting angels on the tip of a pin again, but this time Lin Yun joined me in counting. In the process of establishing mathematical models, I found that Lin Yun's mathematical ability is not as good as mine, but she has a wide range of knowledge and has quite deep atments in many sciences, which is required by her major. She is very good at computer. Mathematical models are programmed by her hands. Her program has the visual result output, if the model mathematically is successful, the screen will appear a three-dimensional ball lightning, its internal fine structure lies, it disappeared when the energy release process in slow motion performance is clear, in a picture can also be observed in a three-dimensional coordinate system its trajectory. This was far more than a matter of intuition and aesthetics, compared with the dry tables and curves my previous programs produced: the data used to come out and require time-consuming and tedious procedures to know if the model was successful, but now the computer does all that automatically. This software has revolutionized our theoretical understanding of ball lightning.
By Bachelet Kearns4 years ago in Fiction
One of the Lin Yun
I went to zhongtianmen by bus. I wanted to take the cableway to the top of the mountain, but when I saw the long queue, I went up on foot. This is the mountain fog is very thick, on both sides of the jungle are a dim black shadow, extending up a short distance to disappear in the white fog. Up close, stone carvings from past eras appear and disappear.
By Lambert Joey4 years ago in Fiction
A. A. G. M. Ch. 2
March 15th, 2012 The commotion came from the bathroom, but the world is a sloshy semi-lucid mess. Noises slur out of my mouth, as my body jolts upright. Functioning drunk is my forte, but the tiny, nearly unrecognizable voice in the back of my mind–which is my sober voice–is desperately telling me not to go into the bathroom.
By Melissa Shekinah4 years ago in Fiction
The Music of Time. First Place in Time Traveler Challenge. Finalist in 2023 Vocal Writing Awards - Science Fiction. Top Story - March 2023.
The peculiar little man scurried back and forth, as he hooked various colored electrodes onto the clear cap upon Aegon's bald head. Chronos, as he was simply known, was awkwardly close to Aegon, his thin mustache almost kissed his forehead.
By Jordan Flynn4 years ago in Fiction
A gift from god
Kuwait was almost a dead city. Apart from soldiers in gas masks patrolling the streets, the occasional blue-clad paramedic passing by in an ambulance was barely visible. Huangfulin drove as fast as he could to the Prime Minister's residence. Inside the palace it was the same scene, with soldiers and blue-clad personnel busy, not a single member of the prime minister's family or even his servants in sight. Suddenly Fahmy came out of the room, much thinner and tired. Huanglin was delighted and threw himself at him.
By Francis Zola4 years ago in Fiction
Quack doctors
Huangvrin arrived in Kuwait 25 days ago, staying at the luxurious five-star Shiladun hotel and renting a powerful Ferrari. Finding that his credit card had been maxed out when he went through the loan formalities, he decided to try to earn the trip first.
By Robbie Napier4 years ago in Fiction
