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Fri 04/05/24 05:42 PM
Going to give a warning to anyone wanting to travel to any parks as I am currently in Hot Springs Arkansas National Park right now and they are so over crowded that they are shutting down roads and advising locals to stock up on food and automobile gas.
Over 250,000 people are expected to descend onto this small park this weekend so sleeping in cars on side of the road/parking lot is most likely outcome of traveling to a park on the eclipse path and food places locally being overbooked and traffic jams/no parking spots available.


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Fri 03/22/24 11:07 PM
Nichijou (My ordinary Life)

Very cute, sometimes funny/cringy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWH5gm2C1eA&ab_channel=CringeCentral

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Sun 10/01/23 06:44 PM

Like most fast food places it seems like some location are either better or worse than others.


I went to check out my local DQ location reviews on google and was suprised by the results that were posted so I went online and did a Google search and found that the unreal complaints were true.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPrmBP24bgA
Not for the squeamish.

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Sat 09/30/23 08:40 PM
I used to go to DQ but they now freeze all the soft serve in the morning (maybe just my location ?), so if you get a sundae they pull one out of the freezer frozen solid and put a topping on it and hand it to you, not sure how you can mess up soft serve ice cream so badly but they managed it.

On a somewhat different note the last time I went to DQ (It was really just for the chicken strip basket) I got a pineapple sundae and instead of being served a cup of soft serve ice cream I got a cup of frozen ICE cream and they just put regular chunks of pineapple on it and not crushed pineapple in syrup and just a few of those tiny dried pineapple chunks that are put on really cheap frozen pizzas,
it tasted like disappointment.


Also a note about DQ's ice cream, it only has 5% butter fat instead of a 20 to 25% so it has a harsh, non smooth, icey, non creamy texture.

Does DQ even understand that their whole gimmick is soft serve vanilla ice cream ?

Just wanted to vent >.<

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Mon 08/21/23 02:04 PM
I am asked to the point of absurdity "where do I live" , that I'm now wondering if others on some mobile connections (cell phones) can't see profile information especially when messaging someone as it has a small info bar on the side that displays your location/age.


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Thu 12/08/22 04:16 PM



Found on Google:
The total City Population for Beryl is about 35,082


Not sure what site you went to for those numbers but they can't be correct https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas#Cities_and_towns

Not sure I have ever had anyone from my own larger populated city ever message me.






Hum try using something besides WikiPedia which is not up todate most the time..

She is right~~

http://www.uszipcodelist.com/city/Beryl-AR.html

Just saying when you fall for the ones that are much younger, you tend to run into more scammers.. And when they don't even live in your area.

The old saying when it looks too good to be true then why go after it... cause most likely it is too good to be true..

It is pretty simple to find out if someone actually lives within the town they say.. Do some search and ask them about different places in the area to see if they even know the area they say they live in.. If not then block, report and move on...


Never heard of this city (Beryl) before and your numbers are now half of what she posted so most likely they are not "right".
As someone who lives in Arkansas it is very suspect that I would never have heard of this city

https://www.arkansas-demographics.com/cities_by_population

https://worldpopulationreview.com/states/cities/arkansas

https://www.mapsof.net/faulkner-county/cities

https://www.biggestuscities.com/ar

Seems like a scammer group is targeting this site .





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Thu 12/08/22 06:20 AM

Found on Google:
The total City Population for Beryl is about 35,082


Not sure what site you went to for those numbers but they can't be correct https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas#Cities_and_towns

Not sure I have ever had anyone from my own larger populated city ever message me.




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Wed 12/07/22 04:29 AM
I have been getting dozens of messages for the last couple of months from ladies from the ages of 28 to 32 who are quite attractive from a place called Beryl,Arkansas who have almost nothing on their profiles except a pic.(I normally block their profiles)
Since I live in Arkansas and have never hear of this city before it must be a really small town so it seems very shady.

Either someone is running a scam operation using this site or the algorythym at this site has been compromised .

Is Beryl,Arkansas a defacto place at this site if you don't want your location revealed?
Has anyone else had this issue?

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Thu 10/22/20 01:24 PM
I was told that since I hadn't voted in the past two elections I couldn't vote in this election and as an added penalty I had re-register to vote even though I am already registered to vote here (Garland county, Arkansas) for the next election.

I can't believe we as Americans don't have a constitutional right to vote and I live in such a backwater place that would even have such a law >.>

Just wanted to vent.

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Sun 11/27/16 10:46 AM

This is a true story,
I guess I need to tell this story about the murders as I am not sure there is any left who knows about it besides me and I am certainly not as young as I used to be and I am not growing any younger.

I had first heard about Dark Corners when I was about 9 years old,
I was at my grandfathers farm that lies near Mount Ida in Arkansas, we had been bailing hay since sun up that Sunday morning and had decided to take a break to eat lunch when I saw my great uncle Clayton driving up the dirt road that leads to my grand fathers farm,
My uncle Clayton had a small flat bottom boat behind his old Chevy pick up so I figured he had been out at the lake again fishing , he was retired and was around 78 or 79 at the time , he got a support check from the military every month as a little after WWI Clayton had been kicked in the face by a US army mule and had lost his left eye and had his face somewhat disfigured by the large scar running across the left side of his face.
He pulled up and told my Grandfather Earnest that he had been out on the lake fishing and had caught a large catch of White Bass out by dark corners and had decided to drop by to get some water as it was Sunday morning and all of the small stores were closed between his house and the lake.
After he got out and got him some water out of the well by the barn his wife Mildred had come over to talk my Grandmother Catherine who had just gotten through making the baloney sandwiches and was handing them out ,
as my grandmother handed me the sandwich I asked her where Dark corners was and she told me that it was out on lake Crystal , I asked her why it was called Dark Corners but she told me that her grandma had told her that she wasn't supposed to talk about it but she did tell me it had to do with 'the war of northern aggression'.
This got me very curious as a nine year old boy as I knew Claytons grandfather had fought in the civil war for the confederacy and I was wanting to know if there had been a big battle up by Crystal Lake so I decided that I would mosey on over to where my grandfather and Clayton where talking and sat down beside them on the old stone steps that where all that was left of the old house that had been there so many decades ago.
They were talking about what most older people talk about in Arkansas in those days weather, politics, church socialism and so on, I waited for the right moment when there was a break in the conversation and asked Clayton "you say you got them Bass over by Dark Corners"?,
to which he replied "yea me and Mildred come across a shoal where we had some luck", I then asked him about his lure trying to ease into the subject of dark corners but it was difficult to steer the conversation to that subject as they started talking about other good spots around the lake to fish at so I opted for the direct approach and simply ask about Dark Corners hoping that I wouldn't be simply told "oh that grown up stuff Kid'o" , so I asked Clayton in my most casual voice I could muster "Why do y'all call that spot Dark corners?"
He told me "Ah that was long time back and it had to do with that bitter war that was fought awhile back",
My curiosity got the best of me and I just had to ask "Was there a big battle up there on the lake or somethin?", he laughed at that and said "Nah had to do wit dem soldiers commin' back home and some things needin' to be sorted out ".
I have to say that I was pretty disappointed to find out there wasn't a battle fought up there but I guess I was still a little curious about the name since it sounded so mysterious so I egged him on a little and got the whole tale.
As best I can remember it this is the story he told me of Dark Corners.

At the start of the civil war the state of Arkansas under then Govener Henry M. Rector had put out a call to arms to all able men of Arkansas to defend their home and family from the unionist forces and join a county regiment or if they didn't want to volunteer they were just conscripted into the army under the new The secession convention conscription law and When the time of war came to Arkansas and the recruiter came to Hot Springs County get those who had volunteerly joined and those who did not volunteerly join.
So Brothers, fathers , sons and husbands joined up to fight weither they wanted too or not and mothers kissed their sons goodbye and fathers hugged there wives most likely for the last time and joined up into lines and marched for Pulaski county to join up with the battalion that was forming there under General Solon F Bolard .
A regiment from each county was mobilized under Gen. Bolard and marched off to Fort Smith Arkansas to seize the Union stronghold there only to discover the military post had been abandoned by Federal Troops the day before.

However there were some who did oppose the war in Arkansas and refused to join the confederate army as they were abolitionists (normally called 'copperheads' ) and fought a Guerrilla style war behind enemy lines as they were against slavery,
Only one Militia Regiment, the 45th Arkansas Militia Regiment of Searcy County, was mobilized for service during the war.
In the fall of 1861, Governor Rector called up the 45th Arkansas Militia Regiment to deal with a potential threat to the Confederate government from the anti-war/anti-slavery "Copperhead/peace societies". The militiamen arrested suspects in the Ozark Mountains of northwest Arkansas, and many of them were forced to enlist in Marmaduke's 18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment.
The four brothers that this story is about are not of this militant sort.....

The Brothers lived by a city called Mount Ida about twenty miles from Crystal Springs River and about 100 miles from Little Rock the capitol of Arkansas , as my great uncle Clayton would say "they lived so far back in the boonies you had to pump in the sunlight from somewhere else just to find the outhouse in the back yard".
They were of the poorest kind as none of the members of the family had any real jobs and mostly supported themselves from selling coon hides and varmint pelts.
They were the type to keep to keep to themselves but they did on the rare occasion make the 30 mile trip to the city of Hot Springs to sell their pelts and buy provisions(mostly supplies to make whiskey)
Even though they lived as about as far out of they way as you could get and none of them could read or write it did reach back to them of the upcoming visit of the 45th Regiment which was coming to the Ozarks(now called the Ouchita Mt range) to round up the miscontents who hadn't already enlisted by choice or by force .
When they found out about Colonel Samuel Leslie and the 45th Regiment showing up on the outskirt of Hot Springs County they sent the brothers off to hide out up by Crystal Springs River , an area in what is now known as Crystal Springs National Park.

Nobody really at that time took to much notice of this action of the brothers refusing to serve their state in a time of war as most people in that era and time usually just kept to themselves and for the most part people around here just thought of them as yellow and that the south would easily beat the north but as the war drew on and more and more people were told of their kinfolk dying or being sent to hospitals with the most grievous wounds from which very few recovered, people here abouts started turning heavily against them so it came about that folks took to giving them glares and stares of the harshest types when on the odd occasion they were seen.

Now the war was as good as lost by 1863 as Union troops had already captured and were occupying the Capital of Arkansas Little Rock and when people lose a fight for whatever reason they look for scapegoats and they found an easy mark in the four brothers and their immediate family who they felt hadn't done their part in the fight and had cowardly hidden away while others fought and died so it came about that the family was shunned by what little remained of the population here in Hot Springs and Mount Ida and most folks wouldn't even speak to them, much less sell them any of the increasingly sparse provisions when they needed supplies.

Well, as I said before people around here in those days mostly kept to themselves and being the outcasts of the community wasn't that much of a concern for the brothers but in the winter of '64 the boys had their mom come down with Scarlet Fever and she passed away a few weeks later so the boys after years of being treated like pariahs and having their mother become sick and no one willing to sell them the medicine they needed blamed the local people for the death of their mom and pretty much any and every piece of bad luck they ever had and started becoming drunkards and getting very belligerent and violent towards anyone they felt had slighted them in any way, shape or form.

Now the four brothers would have never been too much for the local community or law enforcement to handle in normal circumstances but any and all state and government men were already engaged up in North-East Arkansas fighting with local rebel Indian tribes, copperhead militia groups and unionist saboteurs and as all the men had gone off to fight in the war the boys pretty much became the local despots of Hot Springs county.

When the war had first started the boys themselves were of age between 15 and 20 years old but by the spring of '65 they were all easily grown men and it came about that local live stock started dis-appearing and the boys had become the regular bullying types,
by now the four brothers had takin' to horse theft, lootin' ,ransackin' and having 'indiscretions with the wemon folk'(what they called Rape in those days ) and and pretty much burnt down half the buildings up in Hot Springs city which was the biggest city in Hot Springs County.

The south finally surrendered several weeks later and the men folk came home by the end of may of '65, when the men found out about the brothers actions and what they were up to while they were away, they weren't in any kind of forgiven mood toward these yellow bellied boys who had refused to fight and had then taken advantage of the situation while they were gone so they organized a posse to hunt them down.
When word got back to the boys that the returning soldiers had come home were organizing a posse to come out to Mount Ida they decided to hide out at their previous spot out at Crystal Springs till things died down.
It took the soldiers a week or two to track the boys down but they were eventually found out and cornered in a deep gulch area on the outskirts of river where it was met by the Ouchita River.
When the soldiers returned from their outing they told their wives that, "those boys wouldn't be botherin' no one else and not to speak about it to no one" as the south was occupied by Union forces and martial law was in effect so the wives of the men started calling it 'the dark corner incident' and the location where those boys met their end became known as 'Dark Corners'.

I don't know if those boys where ambushed and shot or were just simply lynched and hung from a tree but it is known that they were buried at that location in a shallow grave.
I have never been able to find out the exact location of the site as in 1931 that whole area was flooded when Carpenter Dam was built , creating Lake Hamilton which as most people around here know is the largest lake in Arkansas.

My parents always go camp out at Crystal Springs Lake every year and even though my nieces and nephews spend most of their time swimming and boogie boarding out on the lake I don't go swimming out there no more as I know them boys are still out there buried under all that muck and water.
A few years back a scuba diver died out by where Dark Corners is supposed to be .
They say he must have gotten tangled in some underwater brush or fresh water seaweed and got held under till the air in his tanks ran out and he drown but I can't help but wonder if that was what really happened.

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Mon 05/21/12 03:49 AM
Edited by chinablue30 on Mon 05/21/12 03:55 AM
Post some pics of what you think of as the cutest.




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This last pic is very cute if you have ever watched Naruto (Hinata and Naruto)

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Sun 05/20/12 01:46 PM
I don't want to make a bunch of posts so I will just post the ones I want share in this one post.





I actually deal with this one below at my job all day long,so frustrating >.<


I normally detest profanity but I will make an exception for these two cartoon panes.



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Sat 05/19/12 12:20 AM

Radiohead ~ House of Cards

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nTFjVm9sTQ


If I had to pick a Radiohead song for this list it would be this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urL0-K7ZsD4

For all time (to me at least).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxwZi27sLKM

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Sun 01/02/11 02:30 AM


Janice shivered slightly and turned the thermometer up 2 degrees, she could hear the wind howling outside and see the snow falling fast, a few months ago she would have just put on a coat to save money but everything in her life had changed after she had her baby Kathrine,
she walked into to the small room where her baby was sleeping, she didn't have to worry about her noisy footsteps on the old wooden floor waking her child up as her baby was both blind and deaf.
She looked down into the crib at her only child, the small baby barely a month old was sleeping soundly, she turned and walked to the closet to get another blanket for her.

She was not rich by any means and could barely afford the rent on her small apartment and being a single mom her child would never have the type of things in life she should,
she wanted more than anything else in life for her child to have the things in life that she never had when she was young but her job at the factory was just barely enough to let her make ends meet and the cost of having a baby sitter when she was at work was almost too much for her.
She reached up to the top of the closet to get the small blue fleece blanket , it felt soft and comforting, she turned to look at the crib that she had been given to her by her neighbor after Katherine had been born and worried about what she would do ever do if the plant closed down, business had been slow lately and they had been reduced to less than 40 people after after the lay offs a month ago.
She could feel the warm tears flowing down her face as she wondered what she had ever done in her life for her baby to be punished in such a harsh and cruel way, how could any merciful god do this to an innocent child.
She lowered her head and closed her eyes and prayed that her child would be healed and spoke out loud "Please lord, I would do anything for her to be healed."

"ANYTHING?"

Janice looked up in shock and disbelief to see a demon standing over the crib, he was over 7 seven feet tall and had red scaled skin with yellow serpentine eyes, his long tail swayed back and forth as he leered at her.

Her eyes widened and her heart slammed in her chest as she stared at the thing standing over the crib, unable to even think of what to say or do.

The demon was unclothed and easily visible as a male "I will heal your child if you agree to 3 terms" the demon said with a malicious smile.

Slowly , she came to her senses as the fear ebbed from her and she realized that the demon was real and that her baby actually had a chance to be healed , she looked from the demon to her baby and back again and asked meekly ,"What do you want?".

"The first term is, that you will become my bedroom servant every night, you will adhere to my every wanting desire without refusal",
a broad smile crawled over his face as he saw the disgust in her eyes at what he wanted,
as he looked Janice up and down he told her the second term.
"the second term is, that you will bear me a child every year for the rest of your life".
Janice could only stare at the demon in horror at he wanted.
"The third term of the agreement you will not be told of until you agree to the three terms, it may be anything that I desire , weather I demand that you will never be able to see your child again or that I demand your life in exchange for the baby to be healed."

As emotions flooded through her, she stared down at her feet and then to her baby and realized that this was her babies only chance and whispered the words "I agree".

The demon waved his hand over the crib and said "SO LET THE BARGAIN BE SEALED"

Janice looked from at the demon and in a shakey voice asked, "What is the third term?".

The demon looked her in the eyes and said " The third term of the agreement, is that you are absolved of the first two terms" and as he said it the horns disappeared from his head and the red skin started pealing off revealing the smooth flawless skin beneath as his white feathery wings spread out behind him.

He then spoke to Janice with a soft caring voice " Janice your love and prayers for your child have been heard " and with soft flash of light the angel vanished .

The baby woken by the flash of light opened her eyes and for the first time saw her mom.


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Thu 12/23/10 02:23 AM
This really is not a short story but a re-accuring dream that I have often , I'm not sure what it means though.

I am back in the dessert in Nevada ,it's the after-noon of a hot day and I'm riding my bicycle down the rail road tracks as I take the same little short cut home from school everyday.

The rails are always bumpy and it's tough going but the sand is too soft on the ground and will only mire my wheels down into the fine silt.

The wind is starting to pick up and I pedal a little faster as I don't want to get caught out in the open, I have to pull my shirt up over my nose and mouth to keep out the sand.

The wind picks up more and the rail road tracks are starting to get buried and I'm having a hard time seeing in front of me.

I can see the faint outline of a house off to the left of me and I drop my bike and slowly make my way towards it.

I make my way to the door and knock but there is no answer …. I knock louder but still no answer , so I beat hard on the door as the wind is blowing hard and blinding me to the point where I cant see.

In desperation I try opening the door and it swings open for me, I quickly shut the door, as I am thirsty from the dusty wind and can only think of water at this point to quench my dry throat.

I walk from room to room in the old house till I find the kitchen in the back and drink straight from the faucet out of my cupped hands and splash some water on my face.

I then noticed how old the house really looks…..it is very spartan with no pictures or sundries anywhere, only the furniture still remains and all the furniture is covered up with white cloth that has aged a light yellowish color.

I start to pull off one of the white sheets to see what kind of chair is underneath the sheet and I hear a knock at the back door.

It is only a few feet from me and start to walk towards it but the closer I get, the more slowly I walk, as I start to have a overwelming sense of deja-vu and feel a ripple of fear run through me for some reason.

The knocking is louder this time,

I am not sure why but I am terrorfied to open the door but some force compels me to do so and I see myself reaching for the door knob and slowly turning it.

The door slowly opens and standing there in the doorway is large wolf standing upright like a human with his arms hanging down by his sides, for some reason we are exactly the same height and I look into his ice blue eyes, they seem so human and then I notice how skinny he is , almost bone thin, nothing but sinew and hair.

He says nothing to me , he only stands there staring at me.

(It is at this point that I always wake up)

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Tue 12/14/10 12:31 PM
The little destroyer had been trying to flank one of the enemy’s smaller ships when the captain saw the battleship STARBURST caught in a cross fire between two of the enemy’s capital ships and taking heavy damage, the captain knew if the flagship of their force was destroyed all hope was lost.
The destroyer would not last long against either one of the enemy’s capital ships , the only chance that the little destroyer had of inflicting any substantial damage on the lager capital ships was to ram one of the enemy’s ships.
With a grim determination she made her decision and ordered the AURORA to ramming speed but the AURORA hadn’t even gotten to within 2 miles of the enemy ships ,when the two ships seeing what she was doing targeted her with full broad sides and slammed her out of her original trajectory .

The destroyer fell out of her original path as explosions ripped through her 3 mile length , venting her precious atmosphere from dozens of holes.
Its weapons silenced and engines blown the AURORA was in its death throws,
The captain of the AURORA steadied herself by grabbing the end of the communication relay board and then glanced up to see the main screen flicker for a moment then fade out .

Warnings and alarms rang through the ship from all directions , she had already given the order to abandon ship when the main reactors blew killing everyone in the engine rooms and taking out half of the medical wing.

The little destroyer was not made for front line battle, she was a scout ship and had only returned to port to refuel before scouting the next quadrant but when the order came to launch-out as the enemy fleet had been detected the little destroyer took her place beside the heavy destroyer NEBULAS FIRE , dwarfed by the bigger ship the AURORA was only one tenth her length or girth .

The battle had come swift and furious , the outcome was almost set in stone from the beginning as the fleet that they were to face had already dismantled their main fleet that was sent out to stop them weeks earlier.
After that central command had been reeling from defeat after defeat and everyone knew that it was only a matter of time before they showed up at their home planet.

There was no doubt in anyone’s mind that no mercy would be forth-coming form these aliens, they had already wiped out all of their outposts with the only survivors being the ones who were able to flee before they showed up.
The little blue planet that they called home was on the verge of annihilation and they were the only ones left to stand against them , all they had were a dozen capital ships that had returned from previous battles and still needing further repairs and twice that many escort ships but any ships that could be had were sent as everyone knew this was their last stand .

Another explosion wracked the ship and the captain was thrown violently to the left , she had tried to break her fall by reaching out with her left hand to grab the railing but the force was too much and she could feel the weight of her body slam into her arm , crushing her wrist.
She fell to the floor and gasped for breath as she had the wind knocked out of her and the air was getting thin , she wanted to stay down but the weight of her rank on her shoulders wouldn’t allow it and she pulled herself up with her good arm and cradling her crushed wrist , made her way to the defence pane screen, it was glowing a soft red light with a bright blue outline for their ships and a dull yellow for the enemies ships.
She could barely stand to look at it as she could see a lot of yellow and very little blue .
She was having to gasp for air now as the air was getting too thin to breath, she turned to look at the star chart pane and lightly touched it to turn it to the chart of their home solar system and touched the right hand side of the screen to zoom in on the little blue sphere that was their home “only a weeks flight to get there” ,the thought ran through her head over and over and she wondered how many would escape before the enemy fleet showed up to turn their home into a burnt out cinder, she couldn’t even imagine a safe haven that they could flee too.
She felt a shudder run through the ship as another internal explosion buffeted the ship and felt herself go weightless as the life support went out.

Her last thoughts were of her daughters who were still in school.

April 7 3010 – aboard the U.S.S.A. intrepid ,
Lt. Lenix Healy looked at the battered alien ship, it seemed like a dark black leviathan, he had been sent with a group of scientist 4 years ago to inspect the ship, It had made even him sit up when he saw the images handed to him by the general in his briefing.
It had taken them 3 and half years to get here , It was a long time to be gone , his kids would be out of high school and most likely starting their own families by the time he got back but as he had known before they left if he hadn’t gone he would have regretted it the rest of his life.
A long range probe had discovered the ship 9 years ago and it had taken another 5 years to build a long range ship capable of reaching the place, half way to the Andromada galaxy.
He had been told that he and his crew were to make first contact with the people on the vessel but there was no ‘first contact’ or any of that Hollywood ‘we come in peace’ nonsense, all they had found was a dead ship that was pockmarked with huge gaping holes and a large portion ripped away at the lower rear of the ship.
He gazed at the enormous star etched into the side of the ship and wondered for the hundredth time what it stood for, it was barely recognizable as a star as it only had a faint outline left .
The only real data that they had on the ship after they showed up was that the age of the ship was 1.8 billion years old.
He had them check the readings from the instruments three times and then ordered them to do a full diagnostic check on the equipment before he sent the message back to earth on how old the ship really was.
The only clear understanding of the people who had manned the ship was that their technology was beyond their own.
They had gained access to the ship through the gaping holes that could have only been explosions but not much was left inside the ship even though there was no atmosphere or heat but after such a long time anything organic had long since turned to dust, only metal now remained and what looked like computer banks and storage holds had degraded and crumbled to sift in the bins, only the strange semi transparent ’panes’ as they had come to call them still existed but even those fell apart at even the slightest pressure.

They had spent 3 grueling months cutting open bolt hatches and surveying empty rooms and searching every nook and crevice that they came across for some answers to who these beings were that had existed on this ship, even some small plaque or art work that could have survived would have been a godsend,
but all that had changed last week as they had accidentally stumbled into the ships command center.
They were as always eager to get a peak in a new room but this one was different as it was ten times as large as any other room and was filled with the ‘panes’ they had seen earlier.
They had all slowly and quietly slipped through the door way without making a sound as they all knew that this room was different than the others that they had seen.
One of the group had gotten very close to the railing and stopped to grasp at something .
“What is it Sargent?” Healy asked,
“I’m not sure sir ,it looks to be a symbol of some sort” she said
The Lt. walked over and looked at the strange little item, it was 4 bars over a semi-circle, and wondered if this had been someones rank.
“SIR” one of the men shouted.
He looked up and saw one of the panes slowly turning a dull red it was hard to see but there were symbols and lines all over it.
Everyone had stopped and watched it without saying anything till the Lt. shouted ’start mapping it’ and a mad dash of rushing out equipment and high-tech cameras had ensued.
He had spent 2 hours studying that map , he didn’t know what triggered it to come on , whiether it was a motion sensing battery that hadn’t been exhausted or it was just leaching energy from their Tesla batt-packs in their equipment, all he knew was that for 2 hours it had remained barely lit and then slowly faded out.
He had spent the last week reviewing and deciphering what it said and there was not a doubt in his mind what it said or what that particular ‘pane’ was…..
It was a navigational pane that logged the ships movements and where it had been .
After reading and deciphering what it said, at first it had caused him to wonder if he had read his notes right but after studying them over and over he was convinced.
The ship had come from their solar system 1.8 billion years ago from the third planet from the sun but according to the navigational logs that planet had no moon.

*EPILOG*
I had written this story after watching a program on the history channel on how a runaway moon/planet the size of Pluto had given the earth a glancing blow and created our moon, the program said that the earth was completely destroyed and became a molten ball again.
I couldn’t help but wonder if life had existed before the impact and if it did, how far did it advance?

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Tue 12/14/10 12:14 PM
I just realized that this site has a forums section :P