Mike Robe was trapped in his motorized carriage, stuck in a traffic jam in the ice tunnel. He sighed and leaned back in his seat, listening to the radio. To help calm himself, he tensed and then relaxed his flagella repeatedly. Reports of major and minor icequakes are still coming in from around the ice sheet. The icequake epicenter seems to be near the edge of the carbon dioxide south polar cap.
Scientists are unsure of what to make of the situation.
Mike rubbed his cytoplasm. He had had a bad day at work. He didn't need the apocalypse to happen today as well. Maybe there was something to those recent claims of the world ending, he thought. Probably just a coincidence, after all, it was well known that the ice plates shifted a lot.