I suppose stories have already been written about war-game players who didn't know they were controlling real weapons which were killing real people... but it seems closer to reality than it did before.

#storyIdea #writing #scifi

Is this the first great victory crowdsourced People's Media in the #Mastodon era? #journalism #storyidea

#storyIdea

https://naamahdarling.tumblr.com/post/711724226656206848

quote: For example, in their modeling work, researchers launched a test particle from the moon's northern pole to an orbit close to L1. They found that the particle, launched at 1.7 miles per second (2.8 km per second), spent a total of five days in front of the sun before being dispersed.

The team concluded that launching moon dust at about 1.9 to 3 miles per second (3 to 5 km per second) toward L1 would be the most promising strategy, shading Earth for the equivalent of up to a week every year. For such an effort, they estimated an energy equivalent of about 2,500 Saturn V rocket launches would be needed.

"It is amazing to contemplate how moon dust — which took over four billion years to generate — might help slow the rise in Earth's temperature, a problem that took us less than 300 years to produce…

#scifi #writing #storyIdea https://www.space.com/moon-dust-shield-earth-fight-climate-change

mis-heard "green thumbs" as "green bones".

use that as you will #storyIdea #writers #writing

I was idly scrolling through my screencaps, and found this little plot bunny. Will gladly help with background info/research if anyone picks it up.

(I never saved the rest of the text, but I suspect it's dried apricots I'm thinking of.)

#PlotBunny #StoryIdea #viking #VikingAge

If you need ideas for a comic or a novel/short story I just tripped over Bummer and Lazarus - famous stray dogs of 19thC San Francisco

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bummer_and_Lazarus

#PlotBunny #StoryIdea

Free #storyIdea for #localNews folks on here:
Localize the #Ohio vinyl chloride #rail spill by looking at the #railroads running through your community. Take a high-frame-rate camera down to the tracks and record a couple passing freight trains. Look at the #hazmat placards.

What's rolling through your community?

free #storyIdea:

A spaceship with hibernated crew on a course to far–away stars. One of the crew members awakes to find out that while they were asleep humanity came up with a much better means of transportation and now ships like theirs act as museums or theme parks with hibernated crews being display pieces.

They are a magic adept who has taken the form of a cat to hide from a dangerous cabal who want them for dark designs. All they want is a quiet life. They did not expect to fall in love in such a precarious physical form. They cannot revert to human form without endangering her. For now, they are trapped in cat form – which makes magic a bit tricky.

#WritingPrompt #StoryIdea #ProbablyAComedy

https://muse.authorbuzz.co.uk/prompts/him-and-her/the-cat-and-the-writer/

A sci-fi horror story about how an unforeseen event causes an indefinite cancellation of all flight traffic for the foreseeable future.

The main story is about how everyone tries to make it back home, but another surprise happens in the process.

#SciFi #Horror #StoryIdea

#sf #fantasy #riddle #storyIdea

Suppose you had a time machine, but you could only use it once and it could only transport a non-sentient object about the size of a breadbox. Would you use it? If so, what would you send, and to when and where would you send it? Why?

I would read a 2000 word profile on whoever is making these adorable signs and taping them on trash cans in Cleveland Park and Forest Hills. Who will write it? #clevelandPark #Foresthills #journalism #storyIdea

r/todayilearned - TIL that Steve McQueen had a habit of demanding free items, in bulk, from studios, when doing movies. These items went to Boys Republic reformatory school, where McQueen had been. https://buff.ly/3z10VYb #amwriting #storyidea

Name for his ex-wife.
Any ideas.

#storyidea

“...leading some scientists to warn that the next Miyake event could cripple the world’s electrical grid...” Um, anyone else watching the Peripheral?

https://buff.ly/3NXYLPy #amwriting #storyidea

r/todayilearned - TIL Australia’s Aboriginal inhabitants, once thought isolated from the rest of the world for 45,000 years, have genetic markers showing mass migration from India 4,000 years ago. https://buff.ly/3CZpVQN #amwriting #storyidea

r/todayilearned - TIL that in the 1960s, the US roasted a 1440-acre swath of Wisconsin forest with ~10,000 curies of radiation for 6 months in order to determine how it affected the area. https://buff.ly/3VTPvj2 #amwriting #storyidea

What name should have the bad brother?

#storyidea

Dedication to science!

r/todayilearned - TIL that the geologist Michel Siffre spent 2 months underground without time cues to study how his body clock adapted. https://buff.ly/3TMtnpr #amwriting #storyidea