Prompt: In another part of the ship, Victoria was visiting Debi Aiello’s quarters. She had been summoned that night by a panting technician, begging her, ‘you are the only one who would understand,’ and so forth.
She arrived to a darkened cabin, and stark light stabbing down on white bedsheets. Debi Aiello was laid bare in her shorts and tank top, rolling around. The sight of the toughest tomboy she knew, so fragile, was disorienting.
“Uhh!” Debi heaved at sight of the captain’s wife. Then: “Thank God you’re here!”
“What’s the matter?” asked Victoria, rushing to her.
“They’re here!”
“Who’s here?”
“Demons of the universe! Trashers of all that is good and fair. I never made the connection before. Never understood. Burt!”
Victoria sat on the bedside table, placed her hands on Debi’s shoulders. Her spiked hair had come apart in the sweats, and looked more like a deck brush on the pillow by now.
“Come on Debi, make some sense.”
Prompt: The milky floor of every hangar in Roxanne is high-K dielectric. It’s thick, it’s white, and it can block trillions of Coulombs of static discharge, aka: potential explosions. Already the ion generators in Hangar Bay 2 were bathing charged particles over the outer surfaces of the docking craft. Spindly robot arms shoot ion baths into every corner of every mechanism.
Ampere measurements were made, a light plasma was wrought, and then the ground reference voltage of the docking ship’s structure was brought precisely in to match that of the hangar bay.
Prompt: Back at the hangar, the crew awaited for pressures to equalize. The ship was in the bay and fully armed, full of explosives. A loaded gun. The cargo in its holds was in all likelihood illegal, probably toxic. Encounters with strange planets often bring strange organisms that cause strange afflictions. Never a good thing.
Plus, every ship has been in space without dumping a single dram of their human waste or garbage, for weeks, months, or even longer. Sometimes a ship’s water has been recycled so many times that it has turned grey and smells of urine and cinder.
The dust that gathers around the outside surfaces of a long distance ship is another squirrely hazard. Abrupt contact with oxygen can cause fires. Abrupt contact with moisture can produce very rare olfactory flowers.
And then there’s the parasites. The chief reason that no one would dare litter in space is that it draws the ambulance chasers of the universe into play. From single-celled organisms, to mammoth vacuum dwelling insects, all the way up to marauding bands of pirates armed with cloning equipment, they threaten. And since the reality is that innocent folks regularly get shanghaied, common wisdom keeps outer space clean.
Prompt: The black void. A dangling ship, tip-toeing around commerce. Unrestrained landing lights, so harsh, so footlight, so carved out by shadows of floating bodies. Needling puppets skittering across the back wall of the control room, actors across a stage.
Settlers, merchants, pirates, lawyers – they all eat, they all crap. There will be mating, berthing, and dancing of fools. All things petty. All things writ large. All things sintering down to a cold and singular fact: two ships meet in the night.
Prompt: Violate a corporation, they persecute you like they’re above the law. They are! Your need to know who you work for. You need to know that what they are really doing with your contributions to society is not nearly as important as their “right” to make a profit off of you.
Prompt: Create a shrimp farm of many nets and boats in a canal on Mars with red skies, rippled water, bamboo structures, silk netting, wooden dikes and docks, huts, and sunset.
Prompt: Because giving money is regarded as an act of charity, it is not thought that there is anything wrong with not giving. The charitable man may be praised, but the man who is not charitable is not condemned. People do not feel in any way ashamed or guilty about spending money on new clothes or a new car instead of giving it to famine relief. (Indeed, the alternative does not occur to them.) This way of looking at the matter cannot be justified.
Prompt: The story that I am pitching is aimed at the mainstream audience. More precisely, it is aimed at the audience created by Covid and Occupy, a group not so certain about their government, or about the state of their health, both mental and physical. It is a new conversation, one that asks us to think about the ruling class, one that asks us to look inside ourselves and assess how well we are equipped to roll with these now global events of fear and empowerment.
Prompt: The story that I am pitching is aimed at the mainstream audience. More precisely, it is aimed at the audience created by Covid and Occupy, a group not so certain about their government, or about the state of their health, both mental and physical. It is a new conversation, one that asks us to think about the ruling class, one that asks us to look inside ourselves and assess how well we are equipped to roll with these now global events of fear and empowerment.
Prompt: If this is an explanation of our common distinction between duty and supererogation, however, it is not a justification of it. The moral point of view requires us to look beyond the interests of our own soci- ety. Previously, as I have already mentioned, this may hardly have been feasible, but it is quite feasible now. From the moral point of view, the prevention of the starvation of millions of people outside our society must be considered at least as pressing as the upholding of property norms within our society.
Prompt: If this is an explanation of our common distinction between duty and supererogation, however, it is not a justification of it. The moral point of view requires us to look beyond the interests of our own soci- ety. Previously, as I have already mentioned, this may hardly have been feasible, but it is quite feasible now. From the moral point of view, the prevention of the starvation of millions of people outside our society must be considered at least as pressing as the upholding of property norms within our society.
Prompt: If this is an explanation of our common distinction between duty and supererogation, however, it is not a justification of it. The moral point of view requires us to look beyond the interests of our own soci- ety. Previously, as I have already mentioned, this may hardly have been feasible, but it is quite feasible now. From the moral point of view, the prevention of the starvation of millions of people outside our society must be considered at least as pressing as the upholding of property norms within our society.
Prompt: If this is an explanation of our common distinction between duty and supererogation, however, it is not a justification of it. The moral point of view requires us to look beyond the interests of our own soci- ety. Previously, as I have already mentioned, this may hardly have been feasible, but it is quite feasible now. From the moral point of view, the prevention of the starvation of millions of people outside our society must be considered at least as pressing as the upholding of property norms within our society.
Prompt: If this is an explanation of our common distinction between duty and supererogation, however, it is not a justification of it. The moral point of view requires us to look beyond the interests of our own soci- ety. Previously, as I have already mentioned, this may hardly have been feasible, but it is quite feasible now. From the moral point of view, the prevention of the starvation of millions of people outside our society must be considered at least as pressing as the upholding of property norms within our society.
Prompt: If this is an explanation of our common distinction between duty and supererogation, however, it is not a justification of it. The moral point of view requires us to look beyond the interests of our own society. Previously, as I have already mentioned, this may hardly have been feasible, but it is quite feasible now. From the moral point of view, the prevention of the starvation of millions of people outside our society must be considered at least as pressing as the upholding of property norms within our society.
Prompt: If this is an explanation of our common distinction between duty and supererogation, however, it is not a justification of it. The moral point of view requires us to look beyond the interests of our own society. Previously, as I have already mentioned, this may hardly have been feasible, but it is quite feasible now. From the moral point of view, the prevention of the starvation of millions of people outside our society must be considered at least as pressing as the upholding of property norms within our society.
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Clarkman
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I saw three seals kiss once upon a time. East coast boy turned west. I have been creating visuals since high school. My Dad said, "Do art and you'll be poor." So I became an engineer and the rest, ...
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