Ticking Time Bomb | #PlanetOrPlastic
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Earth.
The planet Earth and its existence is far beyond out contextual knowledge.
Yet it is the only planet that can support life, others are light years away from us
Dinosaurs lived here for the past billions of centuries, and now it's our turn . . .
But little did we know, just breathing into this planet is the cause of the destruction of our own kind.
Because 'we' are a ticking time bomb.
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(Entry for @sciencefiction contest) It has been 20,500 years since we left. It was coming. So we prepared. The space cruiser departed Earth in search of a new hope, a new planet. Of course we failed. Countless worlds were surveyed, but not one could hold human life. So, now we are back. We are home. But this is not the planet we left.
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