Two Sentence Horror

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Two Sentence Horrors.

The title should be the first sentence, while the body should be the second.

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Playing it safe, the scientist decided to set the time machine to go back just five minutes into the past for his first test. (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 month ago by Morph9@lemmy.zip to c/twosentencehorror@sh.itjust.works

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Seconds later, his dead corpse floated through space, reflecting in his lifeless wide open eyes the blue planet slowly approaching.

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[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

One final twist on the displacement, the milky way is also being moving away from its origin location of the big bang.

[–] underscore_@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago

And in a gargantuan coincidence of improbability all these displacement vectors just so happened to cancel out perfectly the time the time machine was activated. Leading to the catastrophe that was the second activation…

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

the origin location of the big bang

And that location is... ? :)

[–] moopet@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

gestures vaguelly

[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Minor correction: changed 'the origin location' to 'its origin location'

Wherever the blue shift stops when measuring cosmic background radiation I suppose.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I still take issue with the wording "the milky way is also being moving away from its origin location of the big bang". The milky way isn't moving away from its origin location, everything else is.

[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

And from every other point of reference, the milky way galaxy is moving away from it.

And then also, everything within the milky way is moving away from itself.