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Daily writing prompt

What was the last thing you searched for online? Why were you looking for it?

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And the recycling of last year‘s prompts continues…

But I’m trying. I’m trying to find different ways to infuse some news life into these old prompts. Instead of simply embedding my response from last year into a new post, this time I decided to write something completely new. So allow me further review, here is the last thing that I searched for on the Internet.

It was announced recently that two American Astronauts who are currently on in the International Space Station won’t be returning to Earth until 2025. This new led to the someone to create this meme:

This meme is a call back to a similar meme that was posted just before for William Shatner traveled into space on a Space X flight.

Of course, both of these memes were references to the 1968 movie Planet of the Apes. 55-YEAR-OLD SPOILER: in the movie, Charlton Heston stars as George Taylor, an astronaut who has crashed on a planet where apes have become the dominant species and humans are enslaved. Think it has Ben Hur, but without a successful slave revolt. At the end of the movie, Taylor manages to escape his ape captors. He is walking along a deserted beach. It is in the last 30 seconds of the movie that he sees the Statue of Liberty buried waist- deep in sand. At this moment, he realizes that he actually landed on earth in the future. Somewhere in the future, apes became the dominant species on earth; to overthrow and enslave humanity. Just the kind of plot twist we would expect from twilight zone creator, Rod Serling.

This image was my last Internet search. One of my Facebook friends from high school had posted the meme referencing the astronaut on the space station. I had made her a mark to him something along the lines of “this also gives us time to bare the Statue of Liberty on a beach somewhere.” I had figured they were probably people out there who hadn’t seen the original movie, so I better include this visual so that my reference would make sense.

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