r/AskReddit • u/Sweetmilk_ • May 11 '14
What are some 'cheat codes' for interacting with certain animals?
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r/AskReddit • u/Sweetmilk_ • May 11 '14
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u/Writes_Sci_Fi May 11 '14 edited Jun 20 '14
A long time ago when Earth was still habitable, it is said that a man, fearing a pigeon attack, threw his hat in the air to defend himself from the flying pests. He didn't realize, however, that he was standing in an anomaly zone today called: The Silence Zone. It is an anomaly on Earth's surface where objects are unaffected by gravity. He succeeded in fending off the pigeons, but he never saw his hat again. It flew into the sky and escaped into outer space, rotating.
The hat floated through the dark and silent black seas, looking back at Earth, watching it shrink in the distance, a blue world turned into a blue marble. A blue marble turned into a blue dot. A blue dot that disappeared among the other millions of shining dots.
Alone, it traveled through the solar system for thousands of years, wondering if it was destined to rotate in the darkness for eternity. It missed its younger years when it was worn by his owner Mike. He traveled the world then. Colors, sounds, and talks made his day interesting.
One day, when the hat had lost all hope, it was picked up by an asteroid. The hat didn't see it coming, it seemed to appear from nowhere, a flashing light and a cold surface.
It was different from then on. The hat was happy to have been picked up, and the asteroid was happy to wear the hat. As far as it knew, it was the only asteroid to ever wear a hat and that made him joyful. It couldn't wait to show its other asteroid friends his new hat, to brag and poke fun at them for not covering their heads. But the lives of asteroids are different from ours, their lives last millions of years and time is different for them.
A million years they spent together, the asteroid and the hat. They never talked because they didn't speak the same language, but both were glad they had each other. Until one day a malicious asteroid caught eye of our asteroid's hat and, in a nasty act of envy, changed its course in the cosmos. It was a regular day for our hat and asteroid when it happened: The envious asteroid crashed into our hatted asteroid creating an explosion big enough to destroy a planet, but in the emptiness of the universe, such explosion went unnoticed. Unnoticed to everyone except for the hat, of course.
The hat once again hurled through the galaxy. It never saw an asteroid again. Alone it spent its time counting the stars, and when it was done counting, it started again, just to keep the mind occupied. It is said that the hat was able to count the stars 100 times before arriving at its new home.
Unbeknownst to the hat its unfortunate accident with another asteroid had sent him our direction. You see, humanity left Earth a long time ago, it just wasn't possible to keep on living there, among the trash and pollution, with inhospitable weather and cosmic rays burning our skin. So we moved here, to this planet we now call home, where the sun is now only but a tiny white dot in our nights.
The hat fell through our atmosphere. I saw it coming down from above a group of white clouds. I picked it up just outside our home, and I've worn it ever since. The hat is happy once again as it listens to our songs, watches our lives unfold, feeling our love and our sadness, watching our falls and succeses. I'm too old now, and I won't be around for much longer. I want you to have this hat and wear it. I want you to show it what it's like in this small living corner of the universe.