News From The Future

Note: The following story is written in a science fiction style. It is not true. It is simply entertainment. I've often wondered what the future held and how we would be viewed by others a thousand years from now. This is my take on it.I hope you enjoy it.




Archaeologists Uncover Ancient City
Earth Times, A Subsidiary of Jupiter Inc.
April 21, 3006

Archaeologists today announced the discovery of an ancient city in the Northern American Continent. Artifacts and documents were uncovered in a dig near an ancient city named after a saint called Louis.

Head archaeologist Stuborg Damimrich said this about the find.

"People living in that time had different lives from what we have today. We have discovered metal moving structures containing tanks of a highly explosive substance we believe they called 'Exxonoline'. These vehicles moved about at a fair rate of speed. Why they were traveling about in such a dangerous manner is unclear. But they didn't seem to fear death, because sometimes they would maneuver these vehicles into each other at a good rate of speed, with death being a certainty. We still don't understand why."

He went on to talk about their living arrangements. "They lived in these box shaped structures with a terrible design, unlike our structures today. These structures, with their flat sided perimeter, would instantly be destroyed by rotorwinds (what they called 'tornados' or hurricanes'). Furthermore, these structures had deadly substances piped into them, like explosive gas and electricity. The individual units all had a sort of incineration device in the underground portion. We believe they were trying to destroy this deadly substance by making each family responsible for destroying a portion of this flammable and explosive material they called 'Columbiagas'. We appreciate that they rid the world of this scourge, but fail to understand why it had to be done in the living quarters and not outside. Also they would generate large amounts of heat which would make for uncomfortable surroundings at home. If they had needed to heat the home unit, we don't understand why they didn't use nuclear reaction. Of course their reactors were tremendously large. Not like the one on your keychain. They also filled every room in the structure with a wiring system containing electricity, a deadly substance which we no longer use today. But they had built it into every room in the unit, making for deadly conditions at home."

"Rival factions also would attack and kill each other for no known reason. There were many factions scattered around the globe trying desperatly to eliminate the other. Many different countries inhabited this planet, unlike the United States of Earth we have today." he said.

He summarizes, "We think the only possible explanation for what they did would be that they were using these objects for energy. Keep in mind that they had no idea of the unlimited supply of power at their feet. We have only recently discovered this energy source by accident. And death did not seem to be something they feared. They welcomed it. Perhaps they knew something we don't."


Update or Disclaimer: This story was written by me as fiction and posted tongue firmly in cheek. It is, of course, not true.