/u/DoesntUnderstands's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] NASA launches their Faster Than Light spacecraft and makes a round trip to the moon. Upon reentering earth's orbit, they ask Houston for the time. Houston replies "Quit messing around with the coms, theres still an hour until launch".
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[WP] You've been convicted and sentenced to death. For entertainment of the masses. You have been teleported to a random catastrophe in the past to die. Unbeknownst to your judge, you are a history buff.
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[WP] You wake up to a video of a person informing you that underwent surgery to get amnesia. They urge you start anew and to never look into why you got the surgery. You go walking outside to get some air, but everywhere you go, people are giving you dirty looks and whispering behind your back.
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[WP] Its the year 2300 and all human genes have been classified and understood except for one repeating pattern that can be found in every chromosome. A cryptographer comes forward and deciphers that it is not a gene, but the message "god wuz here lol".
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[WP] You've been blind since birth. While basking in the park, enjoying the breeze, and listening to the birds. Your eyes start itching so you rub them aggressively. You blink and look around to see a bunch of ushers fanning the air, making cooing noises, and holding a heat lamp above you.
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[WP] It is 2050 and people are now born in debt. All cost of living, education, and upkeep is shifted from the parents onto the child starting with the hospital bill for their birth.
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[WP] Its 2050 and live animal testing has been phased out due to a super computer that can simulate an entire person by inputting their DNA into a 3D embryo named "Adam" and fast forwarding the simulation. To judge if this technology is humane, Adam is now going to testify to the supreme court.
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[WP] You are a scientist and today you have been tasked with interviewing a special individual. This person woke up with the ability to see as small as an individual electron and farther than the edge of the known universe. Your job is to make sense of what he describes seeing.
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[WP] As a joke, you tell your friend a nonsensical sentence. Instead of looking confused, he instantly snaps to attention and says "в ожидании приказа командир!".
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[WP] Education is now written directly into the brain. However, caution is needed as whatever is written will be considered by the person to be irrefutable fact. This is why its both hilarious and horrifying after its discovered that a typo got through the screening process.
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