WritingPrompts

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[WP] Scientists living aboard a slow generation ship have cracked the secret of FTL travel and transmitted it back to Earth, but don't have the resources on board to construct it themselves	440
[WP] In the asteroid belt, water, oxygen and fresh imported food are far more valuable than exotic minerals. The protagonist has just traded several hundred kilograms of recently mined palladium for a wedge of authentic Italian parmesan cheese.	373
[WP] Typical travel time to the moon colony is about 24 hours each way, but all you can afford is a ticket on a space line that evolved from the 2020s-era ultra discount, no frills, budget airlines with extra fees for everything.	71
[WP] The 900 year old time capsule turned out to be full of an assortment of well preserved obsolete data storage devices. Time to call the sysadmin-archaeologists.	60
[WP] The generation ship on humanity's first trip to a nearby star has built in hardened video and audio recording systems. After about 400 years, the data transmitted back to Earth is starting to look really odd.	57
[WP] Science fiction authors predicted it, but after many generations of humans raised in zero or low gravity and unable to handle heavier G loads than the lunar colonies became widespread throughout the solar system, the sociological effects were not quite what we thought they might be.	18
[WP] Groundhogs can predict the weather. Other animals have become known for their ability to predict a wide variety of other future events.	3
[WP] The Mars colony of several thousand people is still heavily dependent on Earth for regular cargo shipments and supplies of almost everything. There is also an extremely lucrative opportunity for high profit contraband , for the canny smugglers willing to take some risks.	3
[WP] As the captain of a strategic nuclear missile submarine loitering at 50 meter depth in the North Pacific ocean, this is not what you were expecting from the well planned and very festive Christmas party	1

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