The TWO-SENTENCE STORY Thread

[RJDiogenes]

They've got my vote.

[Bill]

After making another fruit loop pie, my cat put on her squarepants and painted all the rooms in my apartment yellow. This is just another normal day in the life of the cat in the squarepants making her fruit loop pies.

[RJDiogenes]

Very surreal and nicely symmetrical.

[scottydog]

After making another fruit loop pie, my cat put on her squarepants and painted all the rooms in my apartment yellow. This is just another normal day in the life of the cat in the squarepants making her fruit loop pies.

I'm wondering what drugs you were on when you composed this highly surreal story

[Bill]

And then I saw God and God made me the universe, but my head / mind exploded into infinite suns and galaxies going everywhere. This looked so good, that I ate them for dinner too.

[RJDiogenes]

A two-sentence creation and apocalypse myth.

[scottydog]

Based on one of Gary's funny pictures in the funny picture thread:

Waking us in the night, our daughter told us how old she'd be on her next birthday by holding up four fingers. We've been up all night trying to get her to tell us where she got them.

[RJDiogenes]

Even more efficient!

[RJDiogenes]

"Leader, Agent Gesni has reported that planet 51-rth is indeed a water world, however the average salinity of its oceans is 3.5 percent, making life impossible. The council recommends that this planet be removed from the exploration candidate database."

[scottydog]

"Leader, Agent Gesni has reported that planet 51-rth is indeed a water world, however the average salinity of its oceans is 3.5 percent, making life impossible. The council recommends that this planet be removed from the exploration candidate database."

Very nice. This raises the question of whether other Earth-like planets have similar salinity issues with their oceans. What's to stop an Earth-like planet from having fresh water oceans?

[RJDiogenes]

Land, basically. Salt and other precipitates come from erosion and is delivered by rivers and streams and such. I really never thought about it before, but I suppose a world that is entirely ocean would probably have a much different chemical make up, but I have no idea if it would exactly be fresh water. In any case, not much of a chance of a technological civilization arising there. Perhaps a world with minimal land mass. I once envisioned a swiftly rotating planet with only a thin belt of land around the equator.

[scottydog]

Land, basically. Salt and other precipitates come from erosion and is delivered by rivers and streams and such.

But land surrounds rivers and streams and they're not salty So I did the Google thing and here's (sort of) an explanation.

[Lupine]

^And saline content is not unique to Earth.

Life on Earth may still be impossible though.

[RJDiogenes]

But land surrounds rivers and streams and they're not salty So I did the Google thing and here's (sort of) an explanation.

Yeah, rivers are constantly being fed and refreshed by rain, snow melt, and spring water, so they stay fairly fresh, as do lakes. Although this is not necessarily true of all lakes and springs. But the article does mention that primeval seas were probably only slightly salty, which supports the idea that the ocean of a water planet may have a very different chemical makeup-- which would mean that it would have a very different freezing point. The consequences of that bear further thought.

^And saline content is not unique to Earth.

That's interesting. I wonder what the mechanism there is. It may be evidence of a huge number of thermal vents.

Life on Earth may still be impossible though.

[scottydog]

But the article does mention that primeval seas were probably only slightly salty, which supports the idea that the ocean of a water planet may have a very different chemical makeup

I dream of a world with sugary water. If we grew pure cane sugar along the banks of every river, could we achieve that goal?

Life on Earth may still be impossible though.