extraterrestrial

Speculation, theory, UFOs and Aliens. Are we alone in this universe or is there life outside Earth?

Space Days
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Alice is starting to believe she will need more convincing. She is hearing a scream inside her head now. It is as real to her as the empty space around her as she floats weightlessly in her pressurized suit next to her family's space shuttle known as the Solarskipper. The scream doesn't relay any words, it is just one long high pitched scream. It reminds her of the screaming banshee stories her mother would tell her when she was younger. Her mother would imitate the banshee by making long sad wailing sounds. But the sounds Alice is hearing are clearly much louder than anything her mother ever audited. She has been hearing the screams more often. She will have to go back and get her head checked by the Medically Obligated Device (MOD) again before eating dinner with her family today. Her mother is not too concerned with the screams. Since Alice is sixteen, her mom thinks she is just going through puberty in space. But her father expresses more concern. He initially thought it could be a brain tumor. Now he suspects it is schizophrenia, which is common in space traveling youths like herself, inflicting up to five percent of anyone growing up in space. It is a side effect of living in a space shuttle with a tenth of earth's gravitational pull for too long while physically developing. Despite getting a negative schizophrenia reading from her last trip to the MOD, her dad insisted Alice should spend at least an hour long session in the gravity pod for every earth cycle. For now she is too immersed in mapping the positions of new stars and solar systems on her phone to go back inside and get inspected by MOD again. Despite the annoyance it causes her, few things can distract her from her most important spacetime task of helping mankind discover what lies in the vast expanse of space.
By R.L.K. Crouse3 years ago in Futurism
Eve
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say, but the far reaches of the universe were ringing with the sounds of Wrens howls as the escape vessel from Explorer One was propelled into the dark, hollow, abyss that night.
By Rebecca Collins3 years ago in Futurism
Tight Fit - Chapter 1
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Ray Turner remembers this phrase over and over again, on loop, as he quickly gathers himself from bed to answer the Major Brigadier’s urgent 4AM distress call.
By J. E. Sullivan3 years ago in Futurism
Entropy's Last Dance
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Entropy dances outward, ever expanding. The grand illusion is order and form, when everything is actually descending into chaos. If they could hear, if their consciousness was really expanding, they would hear the screaming. For some of us, there is not an illusion at all. They do not hear the agony I experience as I shift from nothing into something, as form breathes out of me just to explode again into particles and light. The humans balk at something being both things simultaneously. They do not yet realize there are creatures that are not just in two places at once, but everywhere all at once, existing only to give them the illusion of order. Blinking our consciousness from place to place, we lend form and energy to their experiences at our expense.
By Lara3 years ago in Futurism
Space Oddity
No one can hear the screams in the vacuum of space, or so they say. And as I float there, screaming, I realized they were wrong.
By Kendra J. Anthony3 years ago in Futurism
CIRCLING CHAOS
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Althea had been told not to go off the ship, she had been warned. The consequences would be dire but she couldn’t stay away; the stairs called to her, beckoning her to have a look, that’s all—just one simple look.
By K.H. Obergfoll3 years ago in Futurism
Another Animal
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. A scream still travels from inside a ship and over radio waves, though. Beigna’s scream split through my snoopy cap and rattled my ear drums. The charred panel I was dislodging snapped off at my startled force and slammed into my helmet visor before tumbling along the edge of the ship until it disappeared into space.
By Heidi H. 3 years ago in Futurism
Star Seeds
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. That didn’t stop me from trying. I screamed like a piglet being taken from the teet. I screamed like a cyber metal singer at the height of their epic song. I screamed like a 12 year old at the beginning drop of a skycoaster. I screamed as I realized the seriousness of my situation.
By John Porter3 years ago in Futurism
Jove's Heart
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Aboard a nice, pressurized spacecraft like the Fulminus, however, anybody can.
By Chandra Friend3 years ago in Futurism
Space Pachy
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Outerspace Zone Y.45.Centon6 They might have gone through the vortex, but it seems more probable that Lexion lasered them.” Gjero was reviewing star maps on the other side of the vessel’s bridge.
By Andrea Corwin 3 years ago in Futurism
The Europa Colonists
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. The exterior cameras caught footage of the incident. It was somewhat horrific. There had been some damage with one of the circuits which ran the exit portal usually used for robots exiting to make external fixes on the space station. The door opener had been tripped and a person, a female person, had been essentially ejected from the space station. Usually, robots used this in order to access the outside of the space station but they were always tethered before they exited. The entire area around the ejection portal was sterile and clean. All the surfaces were white and dustless, the cleaning robots went through these hallways a lot, vacuming up any dust and few people came in to dirty the space. Also, they didn't need to breathe, so they didn't need spacesuit enabled with an air supply. The footage contained the moment right after the young woman had been ejected from the space station. She must have been trying to open the window covering further to take more photographs, but the wrong button had been pressed at the ejection location, so she was immediately dumped into the vacum of space just outside the space station. There was a tether for when robots or suited construction workers used the ejection spot to go out into the darkness of space and repair the outside of the space station, but she wasn't connected to this tether at all. Even if she had been tethered she would have most likely died anyways since being out in space unsuited still would have killed her in under a minute. She had been trying to do some photography and even though people were banned from this wing, and only robots were allowed to access and walk about the storage area, she had snuck in with her camera and had been shooting through the window of the portal. The side of Europa which was facing away from the sun often glowed in the dark, and the young woman had always tried to take photos of the unique aspects of Jupiter's most beautiful moon.
By Sabine Lucile Scott3 years ago in Futurism
Into Darkness
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. I can hear everything. A vibration of noises sings a disturbing melody all around me. I feel as though something terrible has happened, but my mind is entrapped in confusion.
By Ashley Shiflett3 years ago in Futurism