“At first, it looked like an ordinary marble, but it was far from it. It’s what’s inside that will finally answer the long running question, ‘Are we alone in the universe?'”
“What do you plan on doing with it, professor?” Bolden, the administrator of NASA asked.
“Well, have you ever seen the movie, Jurassic Park?”
“You’ve lost your mind!”
“Think about it. We’ve been looking for life on Mars for decades. Now we finally have proof!” He holds the marble up to the light. Illuminated inside is a preserved, mosquito-like alien creature.
“And your idea is to clone them? We sent you up there for research, not to bring back an alien life form!”
Wilder, the astronaut who accompanied the professor on the research expedition, staggered backward, lowered himself into a chair. “So this is how the world ends.” He swallowed hard. “Not by fire, or water. Not by an alien invasion from the sky, but by one mad scientist’s cockamamie plan.”
world count: 148
—Nortina
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Lovely Curses 
I too like your use of cockamamie!
I think the astronaut has it right!
A wonderfully scary tale.
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Thanks 🙂
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The astronaut sounds like he understands the mistake about to be make. I wouldn’t want to see the thing cloned. Very creative story and well written. 🙂 — Suzanne
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The astronaut is probably the smartest of the group. Thanks for reading 🙂
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I could see one mad scientist causing the world a great deal of pain!
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It’s always the mad scientist, right?
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Great story! I love your imagination! I also love that word cockamamie, and I think you should use it more often.
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Lol. Thanks, and I’ll figure out a way to use cockamamie every single day if I have to! 😉
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That will be fun!
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What a scary thought! I love the word ‘cockamamie’. 🙂 Great story.
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Thanks, and it’s a pretty cool word, isn’t it? 🙂
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A mad scientist and the end of the world as we know it, great story.
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Who knew it would end like this? Thanks for reading! 🙂
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Ha, the next Jurassic movie – Jurassic Universe! Excellent idea, excellent story, well told!
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Jurassic Universe! I love it! 😀
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Very well written story… Coincides with the release of Jurassic World😀. I loved it😀
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Yep. It had me feeling the Jurassic fever! 😉
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I believe it too!
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It could happen!
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Sometimes, the explanation for an occurrence is the one which people are least likely to have predicted.
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Which is why it’s so terrifying!
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Very good….. I love mad scientists!!!!
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Changing the world, one mad scientist at a time! 😉
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Good one! Scary though.
DJ
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Terrifying! I hope this always remains just a story!
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Love it! Your statement “…mad scientist’s cockamamie plan” was perfect! Thank you Nortina for sticking with the MFtS challenge. Be well my friend… ^..^
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Thanks! I just love that word, “cockamamie.” I wish I used it more often. 😉
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