Happy Birthday Buckyballs! Story Prompt

by Beth Barany

Science is beautiful.

“Interactive Google doodle marks 25 years since discovery of buckminsterfullerene C60, or the buckyball.”

Science is useful.

“The buckyball, being the roundest of round molecules, is also quite resistant to high speed collisions. In fact, the buckyball can withstand slamming into a stainless steel plate at 15,000 mph, merely bouncing back, unharmed. When compressed to 70 percent of its original size, the buckyball becomes more than twice as hard as its cousin, diamond.” The Buckyball – Rodrigo de Almeida Siqueira.

Science inspires creativity.

Buckyball Records produces indie jazz music with a twist.

When I see the geodesic dome designed by Buckminister Fuller in 1967 for the world’s fair in Montreal. I start daydreaming about the world inside the dome. What would it be like to live in such a space? What if the inhabitants could change the space with their thoughts? What if they didn’t know there was an outside world watching them? A story swirls in the back of my mind, and I wonder if…

Story Prompt

What story has science inspired in you lately? What story could buckyballs inspire in you today?

Post your first three sentence of your story below…