Hello, my name is Jack

by on September 3, 2016 at 12:01 am
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I’ve said before I would never change the past if I could. The things I’ve done have turned me into the man I am today. But that’s not completely true. There is one thing I would do. One thing I would change. I never should have let them go. I would tell a younger me to stop being an idiot. I would tell him that they were worth following to the ends of the Earth and beyond. I could have saved myself a lot of pain and heartache if I’d learned earlier that paradise isn’t merely a place. The right people can make any place paradise. Julie and Alex were the right people.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on September 2, 2016 at 12:01 am
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Everybody knows that gravity does strange things to both normalspace and hyperspace. Intense gravity wells like those from stars are powerful. Black holes and star clusters are worse. They make it difficult to translate between dimensions. Or to study them. It was not until the New Voyager probes left the gravity well of our star behind and conducted their experiments on the very fabric of interstellar space that we began to understand how gravity interacted with the universe. And how twisting it could allow us to go far faster than previous fields of science said was possible.

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Hello, my name is Charles

by on September 1, 2016 at 12:01 am
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School history books teach that American States like Texas pulled the Mexican States out of a state of anarchy during the Second Great Depression. Real history is a bit more complicated than that. The drug cartels had taken over large swaths of Mexican territory in the north where they could easily smuggle drugs into America and guns out of America. But southern and central Mexico was an orderly and industrious nation ranked as a top ten economy on the world stage. It was a tale of two Mexicos, and the drug cartel Mexico is the one that most remember.

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Over Here!

by on August 31, 2016 at 12:01 am
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Me and my friends spent every day of summer going to the beach when we were young. Me, Julie, and Alex would meet friends at the promenade every morning. There wasn’t a day of summer that went by when we didn’t do something on or under the water. I loved growing up in northern Minnesota where there are more lakes than people. I miss all of that now. I miss living life without a care. I miss the neverending adventure of finding out what trouble we could get into. I miss shouting at friends to come over here. And I miss them…Over Here 500

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on August 30, 2016 at 12:01 am
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The New Voyager Program was built around swarms of thousands of tiny spacecraft with solar sails. Powerful orbital laser arrays accelerated them up to one quarter of the speed of light for the trip across the interstellar gulfs. They traveled in swarms and spent the decades of travel in constant communication with each other. They developed complex communities and specializations as they studied human history and considered the future. They performed experiments in the depths of interstellar space and beamed their discoveries back to Earth. It is a little known fact that their experiments outside humanity’s home system paved the way for the discovery of hyperspace.

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