Saturday, August 24, 2013

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  1. November 7 1984
    Charles Whitley scanned the surrounding ocean with the sonar for signs of any enemy attack subs that could be tracking them. He had been on shift for thirteen hours when he noticed something very strange, it seemed there was a blind spot on the sonar in front of them. The scan just seemed to miss the spot, however as soon as the anomaly appeared, it also disappeared. Charles rubbed his eyes, "Good thing my shift is almost over, I'm starting to see things."

    40 minutes later.
    "What happened?" wondered Captain Douglass Turner. One moment Lieutenant Whitley was informing him of something odd he observed on the sonar scanner and the next they were floating away from the deck up towards the ceiling. Soon after the gravity went away the bridge was in chaos, people were panicking and confused, they had never been trained for something as strange as this.
    After a few minutes of shouting the captain managed to regain control of the bridge. The next logical step was to use the ships periscope to what had happened in the water around them. What the captain saw startled him. He saw stars and the darkness of space. He backed away from his view of the void outside the vassal and shuddered.

    October 12 1986
    Commander Eric Reed of Naval Command had been assigned to head up the search for the missing Ohio class submarine over a year and a half ago and had found no trace of the missing vassal. When the order finally came to halt the search. It was rare for the Navy to lose a ship and the first time they had ever lost one with a nuclear payload. But over the years Eric had come to terms with the fact that the sea sometimes liked to remind him that it still was full of mysteries.

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    1. there were some younger people that went into outer space. Also they were circling the planets 27 years ago in a galaxy far, far away. they traveled in a huge space ship to explore all of the planets.

      Rachel Esely

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  2. Aliens are real. The space ship i seen was like a egg and had pointed edges. there was also krstal ice alces, half pink and half black. There was a light that shine over all three of my friends and Me. i am not sure if 3 seconds of my life was gone. all i know is this picture isn't tweek by hollywood to freak people out. For i have three other witness saw this spaceship with me, thats not from earth. So if you planned to ever take a trip out to space, beware of other living things.

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  3. Space is unknown because we havent explored it.
    One day I was studying the clouds and I saw something very big in the sky. It was some kind of ship, that no one had seen before. I work for ASAN which is a company that would launch the first ship known as the Landolt. The Landolt would explore the great unknown, space. This excited me because my life is preparing and designing things that would give us answers to the great unknown,space.
    This told me that there was other life out there and that maybe
    we could learn from one another.

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  5. So you want to know how long I’ve been orbiting this planet and what I am doing here. Believe me, I wish I could tell you all the messy details. Let me begin by introducing myself. I’m known in the US Navy as SBN New Orleans. My friends call me Big Easy. I’m a nuclear attack submarine. My home port, prior to this goofy deployment, was Norfolk Naval Station in Virginia. I was commissioned in 1998 and have served with the United States Navy since then. My mission is to patrol the world’s oceans, staying submerged at various locations in all the world’s oceans to ensure the safety of our nation’s sea-going vessels.

    That’s enough of the “official stuff. Now I need to get to your questions. Unfortunately, as I said above, many of the details of my journey to outer space orbit are really foggy. I’ll tell you what I know-that’s the best I can do. It all started when some of my “boomer” sub buddies and I decided to go out to Poncho Pete’s for a few beers and a plate of his world-famous blazing hot chili burritos. When we ordere, we told the waitress that we didn’t want any of their “sissy” burritos—we wanted the “high test” hot stuff. Our steaming plates arrived in a few minutes. I noticed a sly smile as the waitress served our dinners. As we dug in, it took only a few bites to realize that Poncho and his staff had gone to the bottom of the chili sack to find the real “fire bombs”. Those little bundles of spice were now on our plate, looking to do some serious damage.

    Now things get real hazy. I remember scooping the last bit of burrito into my nuclear reactor and swearing to myself that I would never do that again. All at once I felt tremendous pressure from stem to stern. Then everything went blank. The next thing I knew, I woke up in this strange new outer space environment. So, what happened? The only thing I can speculate is that the hot peppers mixed with my nuclear reactor core and we had one heck of an explosion. Wow, what a trip!!

    It took a few minutes for my crew and me to determine that our lives had taken a big left turn. We had to figure out where we were and what our futures looked like. One of my crew remembered that NORAD tracked all space objects including, hopefully, us. We decided to give them a call. We were in luck. NORAD had been tracking us with their space surveillance network and they had calculated our orbital parameters. That is the good news. The bad news is that we are now in an earth orbit at an altitude of 100 miles. At this height, we will be in orbit for at least a year. Our orbit takes us around the earth 16 times a day. That means we have 16 sunrises and sunsets every 24 hours and pass over every ocean on earth every day. That's quite a change from our sea voyages were we saw the sun once every few weeks and it took us weeks to get to all our oceans. As Dorothy said to Toto in the Wizard of Oz, “We definitely are not in Kansas anymore.

    So once we found where we were and how long we’ll be here we began to plot our future. I’ll make our long, heated discussions short because, frankly, I’ve taken enough of your time. We made two decisions. First, we will consider the next year an extended vacation. The earth is a beautiful sphere with exquisite blue oceans, land masses of limitless colors and huge areas of white clouds. Our new neighbors are few and far between and never make a sound. This is a truly beautiful environment; therefore, we are going to spend the next 365 days just enjoying the magnificent views. Our second decision—upon our return to earth, Poncho Pete’s is officially off limits. From now on we will be ordering his “sissy” burritos from the take out menu.

    Dick Mosbach

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  6. A long time ago there was an attack on earth. The humans tried their best to fight off the invasion but they knew earth would die. Most survivors got on a ship that looks like a submarine and flew into space. 5 years later. "Sir, There been strange reading from earth." said Soldier. Commander Coleman walks to the screen. "Where is this reading coming from?" asked Commander Coleman. "New York, Sir." said the Soldier. Commander Coleman stood quiet for a moment and then said "hmm, get a squad together. We're going to check it out." Commander Coleman look back at the screen. "Yes Sir!" said the Soldier. The Soldier runs out the room. Commander Coleman walks to the pilot of the ship and say "Land the ship and if anything goes wrong, I want you to leave us and get the people to safety." The ship set its course to earth on what use to be New York. 30 minutes later. The Squad walks into the tower. "Any signs of live?" asked Commander Coleman. "No Sir." replied Sgt Bradford. The Squad continues down the hall. "Sir!" Signs of movement!" yelled Pvt Hampton. "Take cover!" order Commander Coleman. A huge creature came bursting out the ground. "WHAT IS THAT!?" yelled Pvt Hampton. "I don't know but it doesn’t look happy." replied Sgt Warren. The creature has four huge arms, has four long Tentacles coming out its back. "Take it down!" ordered Commander Coleman. The squad starts shooting at it. More started to appear and all came in different forms. Commander Coleman calls up to the ship "Find me the control room" order Commander Coleman. "Found it already, sending the coordinates now" said the Soldier. "Let’s get to the control room, team!" said Commander Coleman. The team ran to the control room. "Sgt Warren, bomb this tower." ordered Commander Coleman. "Can't Sir, These controls are in a different language. Can't understand" said Sgt Warren. The Creatures start bursting into the room. "Control, get us out of here." Said Coleman. "Yes Sir." replied Control. They continue to fight off these creatures. Soon a hole was blasted through the side of the tower. "COME ON!" yelled A Soldier. The Squad start running too this helicopter. They jump in. " GO GO GO!" yelled Commander Coleman. The creatures jumped onto the helicopter. "They’re taking us down!" yelled The Pilot. Commander Coleman looks around and see his squad hanging on and trying to stay alive. "Whatever you do don't turn around." said Commander Coleman. "What! Sir, don't do this, we need you!" said Pvt Hampton. "Goodbye Soldier" said Commander Coleman. He tackles the creature out the helicopter and the pilot flew away. There was a boom. The tower exploded. 30 minutes later. The Squad exit the helicopter and walks on to the ship. They went to the Control Room. "What's all the red dots?" Asked Sgt Bradford. "More Towers" replied A Soldier. "There are Hundreds" said Sgt Warren. "The war is just beginning" replied The Soldier.
    By Tay Coleman

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