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Space: The Final Frontier. Exploring space developments and theorizing about how humans fit into the universe.

Look to the Stars
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. But if you could, what would it sound like? A blood-curdling yell? An anguished wail? The plaintive cry of a creature in pain, lost and alone?
By Julia Durnin4 years ago in Futurism
Attempting the Impossible.
“Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say.” ‘Don’t say that!’ ‘Pfft- Sorry, ahaha, couldn’t help myself.’ Captain Nathan Atherton scoffs at his scientific counterpart’s expense.
By Felix Nolan4 years ago in Futurism
Global Climactic Optimum
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Gazing into the endless darkness, Aster thought it ironic that her eyes glossed over spacing out, yet her mind kept wandering into a dream-like state. Not entirely knowing how to calm her nerves, her fingers traced one another from the palm of her hand to the tips of her fingers as if she were scheming ominously. Aster gyrated from the diminutive rectangular window and analyzed the sterile, all-pervading white walls that seemed loud in such an agonizing silence. She knew that any minute that silence would turn into a dry mechanical voice on a recorded loudspeaker initiating how to begin her day.
By Tesha Rose4 years ago in Futurism
Finally
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Precisely why Jack thought that space could be her perfect new home. The majority of her relationships have all been ruined by her psychic abilities, or, as she prefers to call them, her "tormentors" anyways.
By Katie Devaney 4 years ago in Futurism
The Starlet
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. If a bear shits in the woods and nobody sees it, did it really happen? If a woman wails in space and nobody’s around to hear it, did she really lose the love of her life?
By Jenna Sedi4 years ago in Futurism
D[R]YAD: An Odyssey
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. One of our eyespots watches the passage of time in the slapdash simulacrum of binary sunlight shifting over ill-suited living quarters; the other gazes listlessly at the miasma of light on the vidscreen, the speeding sundry stars streaked into opalescent fire. We may not be able to hear the sound waves of an exhalation as it escapes from the body and thins into void; but we see the twisting of the flesh and contorting of the form; we feel the panic of the creature as it faces annihilation; and, among those who share the art of Inspeak, we absorb the final thoughts of the dying.
By MA Snell4 years ago in Futurism
Ultraviolet
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. That doesn’t mean I didn’t try. If you had told me two weeks ago that I would be in space or even that aliens existed, I would have laughed. I have always been interested in alien movies or video games, but never in a million years did I think I would personally experience it.
By Autumn Easley4 years ago in Futurism
The Word of an Artificial God
Chapter 1 Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. But, for the first time in his life, Ponticus felt no fear. Despite his status as a stowaway on a military cruiser hurtling towards its destination amongst the great unknown of the cosmos, he was at peace. He knew that under the unprecedented guidance of Maiiyah, all of life’s prodigious mysteries would unravel for him, and armed with that knowledge he need not fear the vacuum of space, or whatever awaits him at his destination.
By NJ Reid4 years ago in Futurism
3081: Hyperlane Blues
In space, nobody can hear you scream. This, of course, only applies if space is still a vacuum. Sometimes it’s not. Sometimes it’s a jelly. A sticky, ship-trapping jelly.
By A.N.G. Reynolds4 years ago in Futurism
Serenity's Quest
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Except for the Lumarians, of course. The remaining members of their race, few as they were, had been in a high state of distress, after hearing the screams of terror and despair for days.
By JL Daly4 years ago in Futurism
The Second Space Race
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. In fact, they’re banking on it. It was around the turn of the millennium that the second space race started. The ultra-wealthy – the moguls, the royals, the oligarchs – mainly men, competing against each other about whose rocket ship is bigger – and stronger, and faster, and better, and carbon-neutral, of course. They had already conquered the seas with their superyachts, the skies with their private jets, and society with their economic and political clout and corruption. Space was next.
By Frances L. Broadway4 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 Lara4 years ago in Futurism