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Sci-Fi Story Series Part 8 : Adventures of Sifar - Tide

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There was, is and always will be, battle between quest for knowledge and quest for power. Greed and fear are two most dominating emotions of humans. Most of our decisions are result of, one of the emotion taking over the other. There are people who wants the collective knowledge of humanity to be used for the betterment of the society, accelerating the growth further and then there are those who want to control it all. With advancement of humans' understanding of the world they live in, each passing century has seen tremendous acceleration in technological breakthroughs than the previous one. Past centuries revolve around man basic needs, survival while in current one till year 2077, mankind has moved from basic to luxury to 3D printing of physical objects from devices, to organs. This gave rise to new kind of challenge, money, precious metals etc. are no longer a problem or have any value. They are easily available with modern alchemy and physical mutonics. New kind of e...

Sci-Fi Story Series Part 7 : Adventures of Sifar - Failure

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Mahasangh Headquarters After hours of anticipation, the communication lines are up but due to astronomical distance between earth and Sifar, increasing with each passing moment, the signals are not instantaneous like other man-made satellites orbiting earth. Even light takes 1.3 seconds from moon and 8.3 minutes from sun to reach earth. Kuber now seeing his screen in disbelief. He got the news of solar flare and specifically ordered the headquarter to either hold the ground or let Hind make his own decision. Kuber was quite sure that Hind will either abort the mission or hold the ground. But what he is seeing now is incomprehensible. For some reason, Sifar is moving to new path altogether, which was never tried on simulations by Hive Mind or even discussed. "What is he doing?", thought Kuber. “This is not going according to plan. Maya won't be pleased.". Just as he thought, Kuber's communicator ring. "Speak of the devil." murmur...

Sci-Fi Story Series Part 6 : Adventures of Sifar - Trouble

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Sifar floating in void of space in some sense, waiting for Wow signal to be detected by its sensors. The team is working overtime to not to miss this event. The whole mission depends on this. From space, it would be much easier to pinpoint the location of signal which will be the destination of Sifar. Hind started to get anxious, what if there will be no signal, what if he will be commanded to abort the mission. The silence on the sensors are deafening. Suddenly red light with alarm startled everyone. "Get me to control center." Hind said hurriedly. "Sifar to commanded we are holding the position. What is the status?" "Sifar, this is commanded center. we have acknowledged enormous solar mass ejection coming your way. This may disrupt the communication and may damage the ship. We are looking for options. Please stand by." co-incidentally year 2077 is the year of starting of new solar cycle of 11.6 years based on the counting of...

Sci-Fi Story Series Part 5 : Adventures of Sifar - The Past

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Kuber was recently made director of the operations to handle the space travel program specially of the Sifar. He got a call from an unknown number to reach home as soon as possible, or his family's life will be in jeopardy. Kuber without thinking ran from the office to parking area, took his car out. It is raining cats and dogs. "This is not happening to me.", all emotions started pouring out at once. On reaching home, he can sense the presence of the unwanted. He flung the door open and can see the bunch of professional looking goons dressed up like S.W.A.T. They bypass security parameter of the premise, without raising suspicion and carrying assault rifles. But in this most dangerous situation, what he saw on the front was most out of the place; a woman dressed up in business suit standing with a sly smile. In the back, he sees his wife and child in next room trying to hide. "What is the meaning of this? What do you want?" Kuber tried to f...

Sci-Fi Story Series Part 4 : Adventures of Sifar - Background

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Strange place, universe is. It has space for both science, and stupidity of human philosophically. It is difficult to imagine how the laws of math come together, to create physical particles, which in turn reacts and have chemistry between themselves, thus, creating complex compounds, which coordinate together and genesis happened. In the process of evolution, single cells came together to create complex structures, till mankind evolved into being. Man intelligence, wisdom, curiosity all tangible and intangible qualities are result of these fundamental laws. It looks like mankind being part of these laws is, universe's way of understanding itself. After 2017 discovery of gravitational waves, man tried to first understand and harness this phenomenon. Gravity permeates through time, dimensions and objects. It is gravity which keeps us glued to earth and at the same time make one teaspoon of neutron star material weighs more than a ton. ---  2027 A.D. As it is said, sp...

Sci-Fi Story Series Part 3 : Adventures of Sifar - The Ascend

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Getting out of earth’s gravity is not easy. It requires lots of fuel, luck and precise calculations and of course money. Hind comes on board of Sifar. There was lots of hustling and bustling going on, after all it is the launch night. Groups of Ground crew checking for every possible calculation, gauges, equipment. From outward to inner workings of Sifar. Hive Mind Running every possible scenario on simulation with flight data and analyzing it so fast that humans cannot comprehend. Finding the optimum path, inclination, timing etc. for lift off. --- 10:49 PM Locker Room Astronauts were getting ready to take positions for lift off and multiple Gs’ or G-Forces or gravitational forces they must face. "These new suits are really incredible!" Jai said while putting it on. "How so?" said Nia "They gave us an added advantage to negate G forces which we will feel during our acceleration & deceleration." Smith pitched in, "The Cryothurste...