extraterrestrial

Speculation, theory, UFOs and Aliens. Are we alone in this universe or is there life outside Earth?

Look to the Stars
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. But if you could, what would it sound like? A blood-curdling yell? An anguished wail? The plaintive cry of a creature in pain, lost and alone?
By Julia Durnin4 years ago in Futurism
Life in the Stars
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Once upon a time, nobody knew this. Space was unexplored and unknown. Now, we have populated the stars. Humanity has expanded long beyond Earth. Mars, the Moon... and a colony in space. Miners, living on converted ships mining minerals on asteroids for the rest of humanity to exploit.
By Emilie Turner4 years ago in Futurism
The Futurians
The Futurians By Jennifer Devlin Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. She, however, could still hear her own screams echoing in her head, as she woke with a start, her throat raw and throbbing.
By Jennifer Devlin4 years ago in Futurism
Silent Screams or Ghastly Dreams in the Vacuum of Space:
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of Space, or so they say. Now I’m learning what they don’t say – that even in the middle of this muting vacuum, you can still see a scream. Particularly a scream of mortal terror. And even if you can’t hear a scream out here, if you know the silent shouter well enough you might even be able to feel their scream. If you are, your own sense of empathetic fright may convulse the knot in your stomach; more sharply by virtue of the fact that you cannot hear the scream that you are witnessing. You can see your comrade, your helmet-less friend hurtling past fiery suns and the ghosts of stars, releasing his last burst of oxygen in an eerily quiet scream. Painful though Donovan’s death clearly was, and robbed though it was of the glory of recognition that accrues to most final orations, one thing can be said for the way Donovan O’Malley left our galaxy. O’Malley did not go gently into that good night.
By Simon Fields 4 years ago in Futurism
Global Climactic Optimum
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Gazing into the endless darkness, Aster thought it ironic that her eyes glossed over spacing out, yet her mind kept wandering into a dream-like state. Not entirely knowing how to calm her nerves, her fingers traced one another from the palm of her hand to the tips of her fingers as if she were scheming ominously. Aster gyrated from the diminutive rectangular window and analyzed the sterile, all-pervading white walls that seemed loud in such an agonizing silence. She knew that any minute that silence would turn into a dry mechanical voice on a recorded loudspeaker initiating how to begin her day.
By Tesha Rose4 years ago in Futurism
Message in a Bottle
Chapter 1 Message in a Bottle Nobody can hear you scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. That’s what everyone thought. For years. But that was before, something my mother used to tell me, before we realized we weren’t alone. And you need to understand that. We are not alone.
By Mathsitect4 years ago in Futurism
D[R]YAD: An Odyssey
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. One of our eyespots watches the passage of time in the slapdash simulacrum of binary sunlight shifting over ill-suited living quarters; the other gazes listlessly at the miasma of light on the vidscreen, the speeding sundry stars streaked into opalescent fire. We may not be able to hear the sound waves of an exhalation as it escapes from the body and thins into void; but we see the twisting of the flesh and contorting of the form; we feel the panic of the creature as it faces annihilation; and, among those who share the art of Inspeak, we absorb the final thoughts of the dying.
By MA Snell4 years ago in Futurism
Ultraviolet
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. That doesn’t mean I didn’t try. If you had told me two weeks ago that I would be in space or even that aliens existed, I would have laughed. I have always been interested in alien movies or video games, but never in a million years did I think I would personally experience it.
By Autumn Easley4 years ago in Futurism
New Worlds
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. The quantum mechanics seem to evade the highest and best minds. But, We, are Here to impart that the structures of life Here, can be altered with the correct application. There are knobs, dials and switches.
By angel favorite4 years ago in Futurism
Space Days
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Alice is starting to believe she will need more convincing. She is hearing a scream inside her head now. It is as real to her as the empty space around her as she floats weightlessly in her pressurized suit next to her family's space shuttle known as the Solarskipper. The scream doesn't relay any words, it is just one long high pitched scream. It reminds her of the screaming banshee stories her mother would tell her when she was younger. Her mother would imitate the banshee by making long sad wailing sounds. But the sounds Alice is hearing are clearly much louder than anything her mother ever audited. She has been hearing the screams more often. She will have to go back and get her head checked by the Medically Obligated Device (MOD) again before eating dinner with her family today. Her mother is not too concerned with the screams. Since Alice is sixteen, her mom thinks she is just going through puberty in space. But her father expresses more concern. He initially thought it could be a brain tumor. Now he suspects it is schizophrenia, which is common in space traveling youths like herself, inflicting up to five percent of anyone growing up in space. It is a side effect of living in a space shuttle with a tenth of earth's gravitational pull for too long while physically developing. Despite getting a negative schizophrenia reading from her last trip to the MOD, her dad insisted Alice should spend at least an hour long session in the gravity pod for every earth cycle. For now she is too immersed in mapping the positions of new stars and solar systems on her phone to go back inside and get inspected by MOD again. Despite the annoyance it causes her, few things can distract her from her most important spacetime task of helping mankind discover what lies in the vast expanse of space.
By R.L.K. Crouse4 years ago in Futurism
Eve
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say, but the far reaches of the universe were ringing with the sounds of Wrens howls as the escape vessel from Explorer One was propelled into the dark, hollow, abyss that night.
By Rebecca Collins4 years ago in Futurism
Tight Fit - Chapter 1
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Ray Turner remembers this phrase over and over again, on loop, as he quickly gathers himself from bed to answer the Major Brigadier’s urgent 4AM distress call.
By J. E. Sullivan4 years ago in Futurism