/u/Old-Mathematician392's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Citizens of the same tidally locked planet create a tunnel to communicate. There is only freezing darkness on one side and burning constant sunlight on the other. A tunnel zone is designed and dug, in cold constant twilight, the only place on the exoplanet both citizens may meet and survive.
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[EU] Every solstice, the world celebrates Fred Flinstone's first use of the 'start button' on his new flying car. The great gahzoo installed it in pre-historic times. So the story goes, ... Barney modified their 'car' to break up rock material which led to discovering elements to store energy.
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[WP] A wood box located in a dusty warehouse holds the Ark of the Covenant. Inside the face melting box, is a stone tablet. It isn't written by the hand of God, handed down to Moses. No. The tablet is a map to a diamond shaped key with laser etched GPS coordinates. When, or what ... remains unknown
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[WP] After it was discovered aliens are only cats living out their second, third ...and so on ... through ninth life ... we began taking the family feline a lot more seriously. Learning your cat is more likely than you were to make it to outer space ... just had that effect.
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[EU] The great gazoo came to earth because he needed a vacation. He stayed, however, because Fred Flinstone and Barney Rubble were his best friends. But when his wife arrived uninvited at one of the Loyal Order of the Waterbuffalo meetings, the great gazoo knew he was in big, BIG trouble.
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[EU] The Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes inducted Barney and Fred's friend, the great gazoo. He could do so many wonderful things and had amazing toys. The President of the Loyal Order only inducted the great gazoo because he ha one toy gun to make anything shrink and another to make something grow.
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[WP] After it was discovered the 'tic-tac' space vehicle that kept embarrassing the military was synthetic we knew we must capture, contain and recreate it. We created a commission to share information and look for patterns of its appearance. Then, frankly, one day, we just got lucky ...
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[WP] It was theorized, the closest planet only 2 years away had heavy elements that could be easily reforged into the lighter and stronger elements. An expedition probe retrieved the elements, but they had unexpected properties. They could store unimaginable amounts of pure energy ... and data.
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[WP] Last year in 2322 A.D., our sun's gravity launched our Moon's moon, Kamo’oalewa, into an abnormal orbit. Kamo’oalewa slowly slipped away from us. It joined Saturn's moon's, Tethys, Titan, Dione and Rhea. It could have been coincidence, but it was the remotest of the remote orbits it could take.
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[WP] For decades, 2008 conjured up images of the financial crisis. Yet now, 100 years later, in 2108, everyone remembers 2008 for the first episode of "Deal or No Deal's" briefcase 16. It was opened beautifully, on the first day after the 2008 Beijing Olympics ended. A remastered release revealed -
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