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[WP] Humans are the only known species to have left so much junk in orbit that space travel to or from their planet is virtually impossible. You are the leader of an invasion force that just learned this the hard way, and now you are attempting to explain this to your superiors.

199 upvotes • r/WritingPrompts

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The message

101 upvotes • r/shortscarystories

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They are a plague

71 upvotes • r/shortscarystories

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Here Kitty Kitty Kitty

56 upvotes • r/shortscarystories

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[WP] Humanity has just decoded a SETI signal that unambiguously proves that extraterrestrial life exists... and that we do NOT want it to find us. You have just been put in charge of a worldwide project to recover the Voyager probes before something else does.

48 upvotes • r/WritingPrompts

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How deep is the sand on a typical sandy beach? If you dug straight down, what would you find underneath it?

37 upvotes • r/askscience

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Does drilling into deep Antarctic lakes (or any isolated environment) present an elevated risk of reintroducing a disease to existing environments? Do the people doing this work need to take precautions beyond what is usually required with sampling any other environment?

23 upvotes • r/askscience

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[WP] People have always built chimneys in their homes. They only added fireplaces later, after Santa... changed.

21 upvotes • r/WritingPrompts

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We vaccinate millions of dogs and cats for rabies at a relatively low cost. Why don't we routinely vaccinate people for rabies too?

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[WP] A brutal new reality show has become popular: twelve contestants are dropped from an airplane with a computer controlled parachute and a weapon. The last one with a pulse has their chute open automatically. You've just signed up as a contestant.

18 upvotes • r/WritingPrompts

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Title	Upvotes	Subreddit	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
[WP] Humans are the only known species to have left so much junk in orbit that space travel to or from their planet is virtually impossible. You are the leader of an invasion force that just learned this the hard way, and now you are attempting to explain this to your superiors.	199	WritingPrompts
The message	101	shortscarystories
They are a plague	71	shortscarystories
Here Kitty Kitty Kitty	56	shortscarystories
[WP] Humanity has just decoded a SETI signal that unambiguously proves that extraterrestrial life exists... and that we do NOT want it to find us. You have just been put in charge of a worldwide project to recover the Voyager probes before something else does.	48	WritingPrompts
How deep is the sand on a typical sandy beach? If you dug straight down, what would you find underneath it?	37	askscience
Does drilling into deep Antarctic lakes (or any isolated environment) present an elevated risk of reintroducing a disease to existing environments? Do the people doing this work need to take precautions beyond what is usually required with sampling any other environment?	23	askscience
[WP] People have always built chimneys in their homes. They only added fireplaces later, after Santa... changed.	21	WritingPrompts
We vaccinate millions of dogs and cats for rabies at a relatively low cost. Why don't we routinely vaccinate people for rabies too?	20	askscience
[WP] A brutal new reality show has become popular: twelve contestants are dropped from an airplane with a computer controlled parachute and a weapon. The last one with a pulse has their chute open automatically. You've just signed up as a contestant.	18	WritingPrompts