99 word prompt : sea mist
January 31, 2019, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story about sea mist. How does it create an environment for a story? It can set the stage or take the stage. Go where the prompt leads.
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“Once, this entire area was under water,” my geology instructor said.
I looked at the sun bleached sands and asked, “How did a place this dry end up underwater?”
“Eighty million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, this was swampland.”
“My mental movie of dinosaurs frolicking in sea mist is ruined,” I sighed. “Why did the climate change?”
“Humans will never do as much damage to the Earth as the volcanic eruptions and asteroid impact that killed off the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.”
He laughed at my reply, “And I thought the Pacific garbage patch was bad!”
That is true, but this reality is true too!
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We puny humans haven’t the destructive power of one supervolcano. We may succeed in killing ourselves off, but Earth will survive to create a different type of fauna.
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Probably. But we are doing our best to compete with the asteroids and the volcano!
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Sort of like a bumblebee trying to outrun a jet. 🙂
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😉👍
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Angelina and Edward walked hand in hand down the beach. Their feet gently sinking into the still damp sand as a soft mist enveloped them. They could hear a pod of whales singing just off shore. The day was still young, the sun had yet to burn off the swirling miasma of water laced air.
“Is it true? Have the scientists proven it beyond any doubt?”
“Yes, my love they have.”
“Edward, how can we tell people the truth? They will avoid the beach, our economy will collapse!”
“It’s the mist Angelina, they need to know: It’s whale farts!”
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Bwahahahaha…. Do you remember the “theory” in the 1970’s that dinos died off from the methane created by their farts? 😀
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Yes! Oh, I had forgotten that! And there is something now about cows and methane gas . . .
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I am constantly amazed at the way science will state a theory as “fact” and belittle anyone who doesn’t believe it — but when that “fact” is shown to be bogus, the theory is ignored and no one apologizes to the ones who never believed it.
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Perhaps the Pacific garbage patch will eventually become a new continent–Perhaps “Plastopia”.
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Love it!
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You know, I never really thought of the reverse hubris in thinking ourselves as destructive as asteroids and supervolcanos! Yes, we may remove ourselves from the food chain, but nature will recreate. Which is one of the wonders we should revere and why we should take care not to pollute something so amazing.
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