Science fiction. The floating pods

 

#Sciencefiction. The floating pods

Our planet was experiencing a new wave of change as it advanced into the new century. A new era, where we had to get used to the planet that had transformed completely. We were the same, all of us and each one of us, but in terms of our planet everything has changed. And that is the main dilemma that we are faced with at the moment. 

When our planet changed, had we evolved enough to cope with the changing planet we would have been able to lead happy and usual lives. But right now, the planet is not the same. And this is the cause of the main problem- We are still the same, un-evolved and unable to adapt. It is not that we are purist but we were unable to evolve because we were too complacent.

So what happened? What led to this change that is preventing us from coping with the completely changed ecosystem of our planet.

Well, it is a long story, and a sad one too!

Our planet lies in a galaxy named Marxismse, it is a huge and a grand galaxy. Huge does not need any explanation, but grand does. 

It is grand because there are 118 habitable planets in this galaxy and we live on one of these habitable planets. We somehow believed that life will always be as simple and uncomplicated as it used to be. But it was not meant to be so. 35 years ago things began to take a very unexpected turn. It was then we felt our planet had turned vindictive and diabolical. 

Marxismse galaxy has 3 main black holes placed at its farthest ends, and one at its midpoint. The habitable planets are distributed across the galaxy, and at a safe distance from these black holes. According to our old legends this galaxy was formed immediately after the universe was created. And it was considered to be the most stable galaxy because it had witnessed maximum turbulence since it was formed. Over time it stabilised, with a maximum number of stars and planets that had achieved perfect alignment and distance from one another. 

One of our legends had prophesied about a time when our galaxy would be lifted by the giant and tilted a bit. Just slightly! And when that happened the galaxy would experience incredible changes within the structure of forces influencing the inner stability of Marxismse.

All of us were aware of these legends; but with the passing of time they were considered nothing more than myths. As our civilisation advanced they were lost somewhere in the obscurity of the past, because in the present they now existed as stories in the comics read by children.

Because after achieving the highest level of advancement in all fields of #science, we were capable enough to travel easily to other habitable planets, and we believed we had attained the highest level of advancement a civilisation could think of. But we were about to be proven wrong, because the legend about the Giant tilting the galaxy slightly was about to come true. But we chose to live in the misbelief that was further confirmed by our excessive reliance on scientific advancement, whereby we  disqualified any such event or act that could tilt a galaxy as endless as ours.

And one day, when we woke up in the morning, we felt that the ground under our feet was softer. It felt like walking in a field with many layers of goose feathers. It felt that soft! At least we all felt so.

As individuals we thought this was something caused by our personal cognitive failures that were making us feel what we were experiencing. But as we walked into other rooms and met our other family members, they complained of something similar. We were still not sure whether it was just a cognitive disruption being experienced just by our families or there were others too who felt the same. We asked our neighbours and they complained of experiencing the same sensation. Finally we all realised it was a new phenomenon that everyone living on our planet was experiencing. 

And the national news channels confirmed this global phenomenon being caused by the shift in our planet’s gravity.

Our planet was in a solar system comprising 16 planets. Out of these 16 planets, one that was very close to us was smaller in size, and somehow it had been replaced by a huge planet, much bigger than our planet. its gravitational pull was attracting this planet towards it. Although now it had stabilised, we had to live with a new reality- Our planet's gravity pulled us down, and when the giant planet aligned itself above our planet, during this period our planet's gravity got weakened and everything and everyone of us experienced a slight upward pull. To such an extent that when we put our feet on the ground, it felt like we were walking on clouds.

Many of you might think it is a great thing because now there will be less friction. If you are thinking so, let me paint a few shades of the real picture for you.

All our buildings have collapsed now, our transportation networks are useless because the railway tracks have no screws and bolts to hold them intact, the fly-overs rose a bit and then fell over highways lying under them, the water levels rose too, causing tsunamis of enormous scale and most of cities are flooded, our satellites are not working, our intelligent networks supported by cables and wifi networks have become useless. And this should give you an idea about what sort of world we are living in now.

But it was our good fortune that our planet’s gravity and the giant planet's gravity was not so intense that they would counteract upon each other with infinite force. The flux in gravity was minimal. Had it been intense, the gravity of our planet would have pulled us down and the giant planet would have pulled us up, in the process we would have been reduced to elongated beings with no breadth, only height. And if the upward pull were extremely strong and the gravity of our planet too was not willing to release us, we would have got torn into pieces. In every likelihood two pieces. Where our planet would retain some of us and the gravity of the giant planet would claim the remaining half of us. However, thank the ancestors and the Gods, nothing of that sort happened.

Now we are dealing with a new crisis. Because all our science is based on gravity that used to exist. Based on the new reality, none of our scientific rules hold valid, our planet experiences this upward pull every year. We have been able to calculate exactly when that happens, and now we are caught in a new kind of perplexity. How should we develop our new world and can we develop a new world based on this new reality?

We feel we have been cast into a world where nothing is certain now. Nothing at all. We tried to ruminate on this new reality of gravity, and so far we have failed at arriving at a logically sound solution.

We cannot even grow vegetables and crops based on the old seasonal shifts. Because the majority of our crops ripen when the gravity of the giant planet pulls our planet upwards. 

In the current situation we feel like a fish swimming in a well, where there is murky water, and for the fish to survive, she must consume two tadpoles that are swimming in the same well. But, due to zero visibility the fish is moving recklessly in all directions, thus unable to catch any of these tadpoles- The tadpoles that will offer her immortality. And right now we are feeling like this fish caught in the well of muddy water.

According to our senior space analysts, all the habitable planets in the galaxy have now become inhabitable and they cannot support our species either.

We have been thinking about a way to resolve this situation somehow. But so far we have failed and we have failed utterly to come up with a strategy that would solve this ever growing predicament, which has been a part of our lives since this event first took place.

Our main problem being that the tsunamis will inundate and devastate our cities every year. If A building was 6 stories tall and it collapsed when the gravity of the giant planet acted on it, it would fall again if we re-construct it. Because next year the gravity of the giant planet will act on it again.

After analysing our surroundings we realised something that offered us some hope. The gravity did not rip apart or break round objects, it only lifted them up like a football and as the giant planet drifted away, it dropped them like a hen laying an egg. But in this case the eggs got smashed because they were laid by a hen that was furious and agitated. 

It lifted them like a football because it got distributed evenly over the round surface and hoisted them up as a whole. We realised it when we saw our transport pods had been lifted, and then as the gravity of the giant planet released them, they had got smashed, but the gravity of the giant planet had not ripped them apart.

So, we now live in small cities, in pools of water, where our houses are round pod like structures, and these pods travel from point A to point B in these small pools of water, our aquatic cities.

We have developed new crops that grow in three seasons, excluding the season when our planet experiences the shift in gravity.

We have no highways, no vehicles, for now our round pods serve every purpose. And we have developed these water-pool like cities far away from seas and large water bodies, so that we do not get flooded by the water released by tsunamis. Our cities also lie in regions with no mountain ranges nearby, because their peaks destabilise during the shift in gravity and ity would be logical to guess that after having experienced several pulls from the giant planet, they would finally collapse. We assume it will take them 100 cycles of gravitational shifts to collapse.

Our round pod like homes are made from a highly durable material that can sustain very high pressure and intense hits. In case there is a situation where a monstrous tsunami is formed and it floods our cities. They can sustain its force easily and never submerge. 

By now we know on which day and at what time the giant planet will cause the shift in gravity and begin pulling everything upwards. And a day before this shift in gravity begins influencing our planet, these pods become air tight and its high pressure resistant windows also get drawn out. And the artificial air supply also gets activated, which can support the members of these pods for 15 days. 

We have special farming experts who supply us with vegetables and cereals. These vegetables and other crops are grown in usual locations because we do not cultivate any crop when our planet experiences this shift in gravity.

We have drastically rethought the way we used to run businesses. We have introduced changes to generate revenue and economic vibrancy while considering the new reality of our planet. 

For example, we have business pods where we carry out tasks like:

• Manufacturing

• Engineering

• Food Processing

• Computer related advancements

• Pod based dish antenna that connect us with our satellites, that are moved to different locations a week before the shift in gravity hits our planet.

• Etc. etc. 

But, we had to reinvent a lot and invest heavily in a recycled and circular economy. Without it, it would have been impossible to survive in our completely changed world.

For example,  our computers do not have a limited life. They can be upgraded and their processors can be enhanced after every 5 years. While the core machine remains the same. Our furniture is designed to offer maximum utilities, not just one utility. A computer table can be turned into a beautiful dining table and when we have guests we can turn it into a bed as well. During winter, we trap the heat from dormant volcanoes by drilling massive bores in them; and by placing heat grids, we circulate this heat to different pods. But it is not done via pipes, because during the gravitational shift they will break apart. The heat is stored in round and insulated pods which receive it directly from the source. Then these pods are moved to cities where each pod feeds 20 homes; and before the onset of the increased gravitational upward pull, these pods are disconnected and the piping network that connects it to these homes is withdrawn automatically by each pod. It helps us avoid any risk. And before the gravitational event, the heat containing, highly insulated, and high pressure pods are decompressed and their heat is released back into the grid. Because if any of these pods is crushed, it can lead to a heat explosion, a sort of heat bomb, that can incinerate many pods, our homes!

So, we have had to innovate a lot in order to live in this changed world, the world that has been the home of our ancestors and we do not plan to leave it anytime soon. Although we are now planning to invest in an international space centre that will be 70 miles across and there we shall build the spaceships of the future. That will make us an intergalactic species. Because we want to tell the giant planet that we are the true giants, it can compress the gravity of our planet, but our will is not compressible. And we are sure, very soon we will find a new planet and a new home. In a galaxy that may be nothing like Marxismse. But it does not bother us. Because it is not a galaxy that is where we live, it is on the planets where we create our worlds and we prefer to live. And it will always be so. No species of thinking beings can live in space and spaceships forever, for thinking species to become the masters of the universe, settling down on a planet is the most essential aspect. And thank God we realised it via the giant planet that wanted to subdue us and drown our will. But we rose inspite of all torments and we established ourselves as the giants who do not rob others of their joys, because true giants spread and offer joys. And that is what our legend says. Marxismse means the propagator of joy and equality!

That was about me and my planet, where we now live in pods and you know why. Ah, you even know how!

I do not know how long it will remain to be so, I have no idea. But, yesterday I saw a dream, a dream where a giant held my hand and showed me a constellation, it looked like Marxismse. Looked like it! It looked like Marxismse. 

If you break its letters into numbers and then place them in sequence, you will derive a structure that looks like the constellation the giant showed me in the dream. And that is where our species will be going to find our new home, because now we know legends are not false. You should believe in them and then find all the logical possibilities embedded in them. 

If we would have heeded the old legend about the giant tilting our galaxy. We may have been able to work harder and with higher concentration; and left the galaxy before the fateful event. Nevertheless, it is never late as long as we are willing to begin again.

And the #sciencefiction novel, They Loved in 2075, is about this new beginning that your planet and your species will have to consider before 2075. It is a romance #scifi, but it deals with a subject that will help you prevent an apocalypse that every planet witnesses in its lifetime. And wisdom lies in trusting the legends and finding ways to escape this apocalypse. Your legends too talk about the end of the planet Earth, don't they! After having read my story do you still want to ignore them? 

The #sciencefiction novel, They Loved in 2075, will help you make your choice. A choice that will not force you to live in a pod someday!

Choose well. Now I must go, because the giant planet will exert its gravitational pull in 1 hour from now. And whenever that happens, we enter into a blackout phase. Where only our thoughts and our feelings are active, along with our prayers too. And it is not a good feeling, because when the universe collides against technology, the universe always wins. And this is why we are reverse engineering all our technologies so that we never get into a situation where we have to collide with the universe. Invest in something similar, and I hope you shall never experience a complete blackout of any sort. 

Over and out! Live well and see you after the blackout phase is over here! And to keep your minds immersed in scifi marvel, there might be many #scifibooks. But, They Loved in 2075, is different from all #scifibooks. Because it dares to be truthful and honest! Maybe you want to discover it, until we meet again after the blackout phase.