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Published: 2006-08-29 21:44:04 +0000 UTC; Views: 197; Favourites: 0; Downloads: 1
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We’re in the future and our long promised flying cars are finally here. All around us are sky scrapers, cars, and flying pedestrians. We zoom into one of these buildings and inside we see a group of scientists looking at a large screen. They look worried and begin to frantically scatter. On the screen is a repeating simulation of a our sun going supernova. The image is then overridden by a presidential address to all of the citizens of Earth. We zoom into the screen, wait a couple seconds, turn around and see the inside of an apartment room. The family inside is desperately packing their things. A seemingly expensive piece of art is destroyed in the process. It goes unnoticed. We follow as they enter the hallway, which is wider than most we see today, yet is full none-the-less. We fade out, wait a few seconds, fade back in and see a nearly empty parking garage. Moving toward one of the remaining vehicles, it’s the same family as before. We follow it out and join the masses heading toward a star port. Arriving, we see hundreds upon thousands of vehicles parked on the ground and in the air, as well as half a dozen large ships lifting off above.Entering one such ship it’s obvious that it, under normal circumstances, would be incredibly comfortable. A luxury ship filled to the brim, well over its designed capacity. Looking out the window as the ship nears the darkening sky, we see what are now ghost towns. The only people remaining below are in huge crowds around star ports, watching as everyone else leaves without them, knowing their end is near. As we leave the atmosphere we see that the, now colonized, moon has also finished evacuating its people. With the leader of Earth at the front, the ships leave this solar system in search of a new place to call home.
As they are just making their way out into the depths of space, their predictions come to fruition. Buckling under the power of it’s own gravity, the sun rapidly implodes, followed by an equally devastating explosion outward into the solar system. The sun has gone nova. All planetary bodies are reduced to rubble and gas, destroying any life they once contained. Almost as if trying to clean up its mess, the sun finally gives in to the pull of the gravity well at its core. A swirling vortex of light and matter is devoured by the black hole leaving nothing in its wake. We enter the hole and pass from this universe into another, watching as nature balances destruction with creation.