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“Billions and Billions”

Floating at the edge of our solar system and facing the far reaches of open space, Dr. Allistair Richmond gazes out at the billions and billions of visible stars and planets…

The console *beeps* as the ship’s instruments have finished scanning the current quadrant, so the Doctor moves his spaceship less than 1/10000000 of a degree over to begin scanning the next quadrant, hoping for some sort of sign of the existence of intelligent alien life.

Despite the lack of evidence to support the claim, Dr. Richmond (and the fellow top scientists of the day) believe that intelligent life must exist out there— it’s simultaneously too mathematically improbable and mathematically depressing to believe otherwise.

But while the billions and billions of stars twinkle at him invitingly, the Doctor knows much of it is fool’s gold— many of these stars have faded away millions of years ago, and the immense vastness of the universe enables us to time travel each time we stare into space.

And that same vastness means we can only look at those faraway stars, as even the closest ones would take many lifetimes to reach. We’re anchored down by our technology, and our human bodies.

And perhaps any intelligent life out there is also suffering from the same limitations…  maybe they’re tucked away in their own corner of the universe, behind the billions and billions of stars we can actually see.  Maybe we’re all simply stuck where we are.

Everything is just too damn far away.  For now, at least.

So, as the ship’s console beeps again, all the Doctor can do is move his ship less than 1/10000000 of a degree over to scan even more billions and billions of stars, and continue to hope for a sign.

Originally Posted 3/1/2012

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“Billions and Billions”

Floating at the edge of our solar system and facing the far reaches of open space, Dr. Allistair Richmond gazes out at the billions and billions of visible stars and planets…

The console *beeps* as the ship’s instruments have finished scanning the current quadrant, so the Doctor moves his spaceship less than 1/10000000 of a degree over to begin scanning the next quadrant, hoping for some sort of sign of the existence of intelligent alien life.

Despite the lack of evidence to support the claim, Dr. Richmond (and the fellow top scientists of the day) believe that intelligent life must exist out there— it’s simultaneously too mathematically improbable and mathematically depressing to believe otherwise.

But while the billions and billions of stars twinkle at him invitingly, the Doctor knows much of it is fool’s gold— many of these stars have faded away millions of years ago, and the immense vastness of the universe enables us to time travel each time we stare into space.

And that same vastness means we can only look at those faraway stars, as even the closest ones would take many lifetimes to reach. We’re anchored down by our technology, and our human bodies.

And perhaps any intelligent life out there is also suffering from the same limitations…  maybe they’re tucked away in their own corner of the universe, behind the billions and billions of stars we can actually see.  Maybe we’re all simply stuck where we are.

Everything is just too damn far away.  For now, at least.

So, as the ship’s console beeps again, all the Doctor can do is move his ship less than 1/10000000 of a degree over to scan even more billions and billions of stars, and continue to hope for a sign.

Posted 3/1/2012

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“Upon the Ice Moon of Europa”

Charged with finding evidence of life on Jupiter’s moon Europa, C4-B0T the Explorer Droid digs through the rock hard layers of snow and ice, trying to reach the liquid ocean believed to exist closer to the living moon’s molten core…

Its’ circuits creak from the cold as the endless days of digging, analyzing, uploading, and digging some more begin to weigh on the Droid.  The mindless work hardly even utilizes 0.0000000000000000001% of C4-B0T’s processing power, giving it a nearly infinite amount of time to calculate its lonely existence.

As it moodily regrets ever being manufactured three billion times a second, its optic lense widens— there is movement down below.  The once totally opaque ice has slowly become clearer, and the dim outline of something seems to be coming closer…

C4-B0T digs wildly, reaching the final layer of ice just as the moon circles around onto the sun-side of Jupiter, casting light into the frigid ocean below for the first time in millions of years— and a single eyeball blinks back.

The rest of the creature fades into view, and C4-B0T analyzes the long purple hair swaying in the current as the sea creature’s webbed claw presses flat against the ice…

C4-B0T takes its’ own prehensile robo-claw, and presses it flat against the ice as well, to return the greetings.

And for several minutes, as a snowstorm builds, the two creatures stay still… just taking each other in.

C4-B0T can feel its’ auto-uploader kick in, and the Droid quickly cancels the transmission— this discovery, this experience isn’t meant for the humans back on the space station. 

This… this is just for C4-B0T.

Posted 2/25/2012

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