Stories tagged “asteroid”
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The Earth's Darkest Hour
“Kathy” A mutter “Kathy it’s urgent they need to speak to you for only a minute” a louder mutter “I’ll be there give me a second” Why has Carl woken me up at 2 in the morning, no one is ever up this early. Why did he have such urgency i...
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Creator's End
I am the creator of the universe. But now that I’ve finished, I’m all out of ideas. Which is why I’m writing this suicide note. How does God commit suicide? Well, omnipotence has a part to play. So does a very special package that I&#...
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Impact
We saw it coming for years, a long period piece of ort cloud debris the perigee whose orbit brought it almost perfectly to the orbit of Earth. But it was massive, well massive for a wandering planet, about twice the mass of Earth. As the calculations c...
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Why?!?!
Earth looked at the solar system and gasped, something was hurtling towards him. “Oh Noes!!” he yelled, “Why me?! Why me?!” On Earth, millions stared upon hearing the news. A Meteor the size of a small moon was hurtling towards ...
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To the Event Horizon
Fast were the reactions. Virtual particle/antiparticle pairs appeared, interacted with space-time, disappeared. Some annihilated one another, but others were torn apart as the black hole swallowed one, letting the other one loose unto the Universe. The...
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Hidden Arrival
Samuel had seen the asteroid come flying in overhead, heard the cattle lowing wildly as as it burned brightly through the night sky. He’d watched it seem to slow and drop into the desert scrub beyond. Saddling up his horse, he cantered out across...
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Prospector
When you run out of probes, the only thing left to do is to go look for yourself. Being a belter wasn’t like they made it look on the vid’s. Handsome men, with good teeth and full heads of hair bravely searching the asteroids for precious metals an...
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Jackpot?
Instantly his expression changed. His drive was a Pratt & Whitney Triton engine, known for its three-gear VASIMR design. This meant that his little ship generated thrust. Running on the lowest of the three gears, as he had, at 0.65 g of acceleratio...
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Icarus: Mission Day 1459, Part II
The slender six-hundred-meter long ship shuddered and protested as the heavier-set interloper approached and took the offensive. “How’d they come up to us so fast?” Herb asked, bracing himself. Klaxons raised hell about atmospheric co...