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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 Scott4 years ago in Futurism
Science fiction literature: a forward-looking reflection of the characteristics of The Times
In 2016, a total of 179 full-length science fiction, novellas and related books were published on the Chinese mainland, with diverse themes, stories, languages and technological Settings.
By Porta Moon4 years ago in Futurism
A Whole New Breed
by: Dennis R. Humphreys Some people are more sensitive to certain stimuli than others. What effects one fails to affect another. Some people get severe cases of poison ivy while others show no signs of it. If a population has never been exposed to a particular stimulus before, who knows what the result might be?
By Dennis Humphreys4 years ago in Futurism
Life on Venus
Venusians have perfect bodies: a broad or broad forehead, blue eyes, a straight nose, blond hair, and surprising intelligence. They measure more or less between 1.30 to 1.40 meters in height, there are no higher or lower; there are no paunches or disfigured people, everyone has angelic figures: perfection in men and women, because it is a planet, and its humanity, ascendant, superior. There you don't see monsters like you see here. They wear a wide belt full of red, blue and yellow buttons around it, which are flashing on and off like a beacon. When they see themselves in danger, they press a mother button, which can be symbolized as the buckle we have on our belts; just press it and a circle of fire forms, capable of disintegrating a bullet and everything it catches around it.
By Georgenes Medeiros4 years ago in Futurism
What is the speed of light and will humans ever be able to achieve it?
Speed has changed the life of human beings and speed is changing. After getting off the bullock cart and horse, the person rode on a cycle. Then started traveling on a bike and now on a plane. Earlier it used to take 2 days to travel 100 km, now we can reach 100 km in 2 hours.
By Bhagirath Vala4 years ago in Futurism
Titaness
‘She’s out there again,’ Maria said. Julien sat at the table behind her as she looked out of the large, semi-circular window that occupied one side of the room. Their apartment sat atop a towering, cylindrical block that droned quietly each day as it worked hard to mimic Earth’s gravity within. It sat near the centre of activity on Saturn’s satellite, Titan, and Maria was not able to shake the feeling of being always on display.
By Billy Forshaw4 years ago in Futurism
