WritingPrompts

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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
[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
[WP] People have always built chimneys in their homes. They only added fireplaces later, after Santa... changed.	21
[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
[WP] The zombie apocalypse occurred a week ago. This morning, you and your whole group of survivors were bitten and are now doomed. Unwilling to just give up, you start making preparations to be the best zombies you can possibly be.	8
[WP] It turns out that every nation on the planet is telling the truth when it denies hacking the others. You've just found proof that a malevolent AI is behind all of it, and is playing whole countries against each other while manipulating their people and hiding its own existence.	8
[WP] You buy your pet rat a toy piano, hoping to teach him to press buttons for treats. To your surprise, he immediately begins tapping out "SOS" in Morse code.	8
[WP] Aliens descend in Earth and start rounding up redditors seemingly at random. Then, someone discovers the string of "vote up if..." posts. It seems Intergalactic Law is vigorously enforced.	5
[WP] Write parody lyrics for the song "Stacey's Mom", titled "OP's Mom", without using any direct synonyms for the word "large".	4
[WP] Anonymous and the infamous hacker known as 4chan teamed up last night and made every email and electronic document ever written both public and searchable. This morning, the world is... different.	4

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