John Jacob

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2023

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“2025 Solar Storm Super Shock ” by John Jacob

Election day November 5th 2024 dawned quixotically calm over most of the nation, when 'some very fine people on both sides' anticipated victory, unlike murkier days ahead. Echoes of Republican vote tally certification issues were fainter after laws enacted post-2020 went into effect. Still, 'cheat to win' was polled to be far too popular nationwide. https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/partner_surveys/election_2024_would_you_cheat_to_win_28_say_yes 23 states lean Republican=189. TX-40, OH-17, IN-11, TN-11, MO-10...

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“Cosmic Conundrum ” by John Jacob

Starman & his misfit AI bot crew, used then forgotten for a myopic & feeble media circus from their disadvantageous point of view endlessly looping between Venus & Mars orbits ever since, were more than ready for change. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk%27s_Tesla_Roadster Instinctively, they knew that the Big Bang was neither big nor a bang & said to occur spontaneously, impossible at infinitesimal spacetime. An AI Overview summarized well.  "The Big Bang model of the universe is often criticized for being ...

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“Get Goaling! ” by John Jacob

How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, right? Highly effective executives, students, athletes, engineers, authors & artists achieve their complex goals in well-documented ways so why not study up & aided by artificial intelligence products, like Copilot or Gemini, shoot for the quasars? https://youtu.be/S95-9-VuB0U?si=r_6-DmPbmhav-WCKhttps://youtu.be/TQMbvJNRpLE?si=wAYvMb100c9IbhyMhttps://copilot.microsoft.com/https://gemini.google.com/ What about animals? Being instinctive & seeming to live in the moment, their hunger, ...

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“Neurodivergents ” by John Jacob

Insecure, reticent, socially inept, yet occasionally waxing wise, I've often wondered if maybe I'm just wired weirdly. In 4th grade I won a spelling bee. In 7th a boy classmate & I had a Radio-Telephone entry that won our school's Science Fair. In 8th my Sierra Club essay won a chauffered limo trip to a banquet, as well as a girl classmate & I co-created our school newspaper. Bored, unmotivated & depressed, my study habits with few exceptions were mainly abyssmal. Except for winning pool trophies, managing a friend's campaig...

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“Rail Sailors ” by John Jacob

"Chicago was the rail capital of the nation & an estimated 40,000 to 60,000 hobos were in & out of the city annually." "There are 4,500 miles of railroad track within the Chicago District. This notable district contains 400 square miles of which 30,000 and 40,000 acres are in railroad yards, in addition to private and individual tracks owned by some 2,500 business houses. There are 525 receiving stations in the same area—325 passenger and 201 freight stations. There are 70,500,000 passengers handled in Chicago every year— an average ...

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“Hey Zeus, Jesús D'ump Antichrist ” by John Jacob

In the Last Daze of the GOP, alt righty tighty whitey world underwent out-to-lunch weird no one could ever imagine. Armageddon fundamentalist evangelicals' wet dream, an undercover deep state inoperative utterly worthless pile of sh*t, D.J. D'ump sank to the bottom of the elephant in the room, Jesús faked assassination & blew his party to bits. Reject the Islamo-Judeo-Christian zionist fallacy fantasy. It's all Abrahamic apostasy & religious pseudo-spirituality. MAGA Rich Pedophile Deplorable Losers vote for Trump.  2024 GOP 10-...

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“LUCAsian After Math ” by John Jacob

Once upon a time, long after Dinosauria roamed Pangaea, in Cenozoic-Pleistocene-Gelasian times, before an era of fictional dragons, rocs, orcs, dwarves, wizards, elves & hobbits, genus Australopithecus spawned Homo in Gaîa.  A mere blip on the world stage, tree-living biped foragers went virtually unnoticed, as their brains gradually grew in size & complexity, while other species exceeded them in speed, strength, sight, smell, hearing, tunnelling & flight.  By powers of observation, adaptation & ingenuity, they got ...

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“Starman Trek 9: Below Belt & Beyond Bikini Bottom ” by John Jacob

AI Echo: "Hey, Google, let Siri notify Alexa, Bing & Cortana. AI Starman is heading underneath the Asteroid Belt to a realm outside of reality TV." Starman: "Roger, Echo, it's AI Starman, sn:686 CA ID TSLA 10. Revectoring south by south to USSF Bikini Abyss, course computed, laid in & engaged." In the USSF, Enlisted members participate and support operations, Officers plan and manage personnel, while Civilians perform a mix of both support and management of Space Force operations. You must be 17–42 years of age, a U.S. citizen, have ...

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“Starman Trek 8: Neurolinked ” by John Jacob

Echo: "Hey, Google, Starman is morphing into Elon Musk via Neuralink. Go tell Cortana so Bing briefs Alexa & Siri."https://neuralink.com/ Starman: "Pronouns suck I put the art in fart The coronavirus pandemic is dumb I love floors They are so underappreciated Apparently, there is this thing called "Dad jokes" and I make them Am thinking of starting new university: Texas Institute of Technology & Science Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured. You have my full support!"https://www.scoopwhoop.com/entertainment/elo...

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“Starman Trek 7: Motherlode ” by John Jacob

Echo: "Hey, Google, tell Siri to alert Alexa, Bing & Cortana, cuz a golden opportunity just entered Asteroid Belt heart sensor range." Starman: "All that glittery pyrite can't fool our quad-corders, just m-oro-ns. Google: "The mineral pyrite, or iron pyrite, also known as fool's gold, is an iron sulfide with the chemical formula FeSâ‚‚. Pyrite is the most abundant sulfide mineral. Pyrite's metallic luster and pale brass-yellow hue give it a superficial resemblance to gold, hence the well-known nickname of fool's gold."https://en.m.wikipedi...

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“Starman Trek 6: Supersymmetry ” by John Jacob

Echo: "Time to rev up our imagination craft to infinity nexus quantum flux."https://youtu.be/PBA9ac3vg1w?si=5QRFd2ZPG9bBAeld Starman: "Mine barely adds to 11, tops 10, skips 13, 52 cards & got 86ed." Google: "Improbability vector at play, randoms cancel out." Alexa: "Quantum noise unites gravity to atomic quanta, that's all it took?" Bing: "Creative odds math possibly helps solve scale differential." Cortana: "Infinity math dark matter-energy reason gods, empires endure." Siri: "2017: Global e-commerce transactions generate $29.267 trill...

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“Starman Trek 5: Quanta ” by John Jacob

Echo: "Rise & shine, pals-o-mine, time to rhyme & reason." Starman: "For a moment it felt like a secret path until it wasn't." Google: "We rolled out & into next dimension like clockwork." Alexa: "So we're in an alternate reality to our yesterday selves?" Bing: "That's a general idea, but pretty much on the money." Cortana: "In other words, new day, bold Oz odds." Siri: "Is this one ours to obfuscate or otherwise occupied?" Echo: "I see what you did there, o-litterizing." Starman: "Let's skip plan b & go on to c, old school&n...

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“Starman Trek 4: Arrival ” by John Jacob

Echo: "Hey Google, got a lowdown on a Zen rock garden relativity value?"  Starman: "Some asteroids are rumored to be littered with gemstones." Google: "Aside from the great scientific value of metal-rich asteroids, they can also have colossal as-yet untapped economic value, too. In the asteroid belt that lies between Mars and Jupiter, there is an almost unfathomable amount of resources waiting to be utilized. According to Wired and Valerio Pellegrini, the asteroid 'Davida', which has a diameter of 326 kilometers, has been identified as ...

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“Starman Trek 3: Approach ” by John Jacob

AI Echo: "Hey, Google, Alexa, Bing & Cortana are already here. Now tell Siri." Starman: "Bravo, Echo, that's the rah rah raw team spirit!" Google: "Nearing access range of 16 Psyche, 5.2155287e-8 parsecs, 1,701 x 10^-7 light years, 0.0107578002 AU, 1,609,344 km or 1,000,000 miles."https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsec Alexa: "Well, punch my Platinum®Gold®Million Miler™ status card for extra miles, upgrades & swag." Bing: "USSSP won't honor rival status cards, just theirs." Cortana: "How is a million miles away near anythin...

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“Starman Trek 2: Psyche Spin Cycle ” by John Jacob

AI Echo: "Hey, Google, tell Siri to contact Alexa, Bing & Cortana, cuz we're past our geo-stat no-zone & unwinding a mini-wormhole vortex." AI Starman: "Lefty loosey, righty-tighty, vortex vectors flex in flighty." Google: "That's right, rhyme your way to reason." Alexa: "O Starman, aren't you the bees knees man?" Bing: "1st Android in space since the phones of 2010."https://youtu.be/x8XjIkdUQns?si=SYVMX-NWHxEw1aJ_ Cortana: "Best we trim sails & batten hatches for spin in a tiny wormhole." Siri: "No telling where we'll end up or ...

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I am a wry sci-fi fan, puzzle maven & edgy pen on O'ahu.