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A scientist wakes up during a cryo sleep cycle on a solo mission to understand a mystery in deep space.
A scientist wakes up during a cryo sleep cycle on a solo mission to understand a mystery in deep space.
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Space spasas. It's always the same
dream. Oh, I didn't know at
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the time that I'd miss it.
I wanted meaning Now I have longing.
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My parents tried to talk me out
of this, my friends too. I
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wouldn't listen. I never did.
I was so distant. I thought I
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knew, I thought I wanted this. Now the finality of the decision is
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eating away of my subconscious So I
just dreamed the same dream on repeat.
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The farmhouse, first, my childhood, then the move to Mars. I
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was so excited, But as I
got older, I wanted more, and
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I realized to git more, I
had to go January twenty fourth, twenty
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one thirty two, cry of cycle
completely initiating. Please try to relax.
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Your body is adjusting to the chemcom
leaving your system. You may feel disoriented.
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Can you confirm that you hear me? The head fog is the worst.
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You feel scrambled. It's not like
the two three day long tests back
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on Mars or Earth. This was
four years of brio going almost the speed
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of light. It feels like shit. Oh, you've confirmed that you hear
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me? I hear you. What
day is it? The current date is
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January twenty fourth twenty one thirty two
time slip may apply due to relativity.
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Would you like me to explain?
Did we pass by any large planets or
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singularities? As far as my systems
can tell, we did not? Okay,
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Well, how is your system?
I am working at optimal speeds and
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accuracy. Oh that's reassuring. How
long do we get there? Kelly is
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a cutting edge AI software. Closest
thing you have to a friend up here.
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As long as she's working right,
I get to live. I have
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to admit every time you lay down
in the tube or cryo chamber, it
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can't help wondering if you're ever gonna
wake up. We are four years into
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the six year trip to proximate Centaur. This is one of three cryo reset
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points. Gotcha, remind me what
this resets for? Complete system checks,
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health and psychology check, and mission
course and recorrection check. You can't do
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that while I'm asleeping. No,
your body isn't in a natural state win
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in cryo. The cryo compound can
Come eighteen is designed to lower your body's
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color need as well as slow the
metabolic process. I can only imagine what's
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in that compound. Cryo compound can
Come eighteen is trademarked under the Elician Astro
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Solutions Company in twenty and eighteen.
Oh yeah, sound safe. Just as
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shown, the compound has tested at
eighty nine percent success rate. All right,
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well, where do we start?
The system will have to do a
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full stress test. Would you like
to initiate? Yeah, might as well.
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Uh, let's get started. Hey, could I get a coffee?
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First? Coffee is being dispensed.
Dispensed, you don't have a way to
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bring it to me, Kelly,
what's that all about? I thought we
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were on our big, fancy spaceship. My mechanized units are unable to be
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deployed until the third cryo checkpoint.
Yeah, yeah, I gotta conserve energy,
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right, energy consumption is not a
concern. The robotic arms and mechanized
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units are unable to be restowed once
deployed, making treble dangerous. It is
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safety part of POLES section seed line
thirty two h. Of course I must
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have missed that when I tried to
read that giant manual. Would you like
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me to read it to you?
That would be like putting me back into
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cryo. Thanks, but no,
thanks, Your beverage is deplored. You
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will find the heated canister and the
dispense reach you to You're right, can
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you walk? Yeah? I think
so, let's try. That's not bad,
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Kelly, did you make this to
yourself? I dispensed it from your
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food stores. You have two hundred
pounds of coffee grounds fresh from the hills
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of Columbia. The coffee grounds were
cloned in the southern quadrant of the motors
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City Nexus, so test tube beans
awesome. When we realized the Earth was
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dying, we had to start growing
more food on Mars. Mars not having
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an atmosphere doesn't do very well in
the way of pollination or bees, so
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almost every plant is a clone.
The animals all clones. We were been
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cloning our own viruses to fight each
other in a desperate attempt for immortality.
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So we used our sickness to damn
near kill Earth, and then we brought
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it to Mars. What could go
wrong? Right? All right, let's
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get this going full system scan,
solar telemetry and relaying messaging. Wait,
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is there any messages I should know
about? You have one voicemail? Shall
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I play it? Might as well? Hey, Steve, it's Leonard.
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How you're doing? All right?
Would love to talk to you about that
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idea I proposed, well, asks
me, when you can? That's really
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odd? Shall I archive this?
Sure? What the hell would you want
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to talk about? I'm already on
his mission. Can you check for a
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fragmentation? This can't be right checking. There is a fragmentation anomaly in the
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storage drives. Shall I repair?
Yeah, go ahead, and we don't
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need anything else messing up because of
it. Purging anomaly? Oh god,
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Oh my head, Ah god,
god, my head. Are you all
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right, Stephen? I think so. I have an intense headache. Oh
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god. I will pause the purge
and dispense medication. All right. Thank
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you must have been the coffee.
You find ways to amuse yourself out here.
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You have to the endless ocean of
stars, all staring back at you,
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seem indifferent, the realization that you
don't matter at all. It's a
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constant fixture in the backdrop of black
hopelessness. It must be what a drop
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of water feels like like in an
ocean. The size and scope of it
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defeats us. All right, how's
it looking? Status update? All systems
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are out of sync by one percent
as per dilation. That's acceptable, and
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we don't have any real gravity other
than our centerfuge out here to keep us
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in line. So it makes sense. How's the telemetry are we tracking?
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All right? Telemetry is often no
deviations from course and our cloud of God
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particles is still there, right,
not like it's gonna take off on us.
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The particle cloud is there and sensors
reported increase in size by one point
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two percent. That's interesting. Why
is that unknown? Not enough data to
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resolve? That's all right, Kelly. We have a bigger mystery here.
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What is this tube of goo?
Is this dinner? Meal? Two?
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Is turkey, green beans, carrots
and apple sauce? Uh, it's all
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in one tube? Am I missing
something here? The meal is condensed to
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say, stay Stephen, Oh,
you spoil me. I do not understand
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it. Said joke, Kelly,
Man, They've really screwed you over on
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humor. This is gonna be a
long drive if you can't laugh at any
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of my jokes. Apology, Stephen. I can search for a software to
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help me understand humor. There's an
idea. Let me know what you find.
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I will update you on the next
cryo reset. I will be applying
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corrections to the dilation to keep us
on course. Yeah, I guess I'll
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be back in the fish tank in
the next eight hours. Huh. The
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cryostation is nearly reseat that can come
is supplied to last another nine months.
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Okay, just don't hit anything,
Stephen. The telemetry won't allow me to
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make mistakes or allowed for accidental collisions. So you say, all right,
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well, I'm gonna go watch a
movie and send an email off. Then
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I'll start winding down for the tube. Which film should I load for you?
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I don't know. Surprise me.
I just want to watch something.
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Maybe I'll dream about it. It'll
be a nice change. I will load
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your collection. I spent that evening
watching films from the twentieth century classics.
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These folks are long gone, and
it's amazing how much they got right and
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how much they missed the mark.
We could travel great distances in space,
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but we didn't have any flying cars
at home. Mars didn't have alien ruins
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on it, or so they say. AI wasn't a deadly killing machine of
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the future. We relied on it. Some said it was our next step
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in evolution. I wonder if Charles
Darwin would have ever guessed that one.
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Are you comfortable, Stephen, Well, I'm as comfortable as I think I'm
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going to get. I will begin
the sedative. You will feel light hitted
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at first. Yeah, yeah,
I know. I feel like I'm following,
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etc. So forth, I'll be
all right, Kelly, sleep well,
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Stephen, I will see you in
nine months. I'll see you then,
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hopefully, and the sleep begins again. Down and down I go the
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spiral some call it. You fade
to black at first, and there's a
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slight feeling of panic, you feel
helpless, and then you don't feel anything.
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You can still hear for a little
while, but what's there to hear?
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The deafening sound of silence. We're
putting together a mission to explore the
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particle cloud. You're familiar with it, right, yeah. I've been obsessed
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with the topic since I saw the
first news Reford. Awesome, Hey man,
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we're obsessed too. We want to
send a guy to study it first
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hand. You're a physicist, right
yeah. I'm also a seventh rank pilot.
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I could have went further, but
I'm not interested in military flying to
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want to fight in space. I
don't blame you. This is going to
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be a long term mission though,
eight years. If nothing goes wrong,
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that's round trip. Yeah, I
figured it was. I'm okay with being
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alone. Yeah, but it's eight
years. That's a good stint. I
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mean you'll be asleep for most of
the part, but still. Yeah,
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how's that technology working? Last I
heard it was spotty. We have made
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incredible leaps in the field. We
can keep you under for a year at
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a time, but we don't.
We do about eight to nine month sleep
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cycles with full reset. So that's
the trick. Huh. Give the body
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a few days of awake and then
sleep it again to reduce the risk of
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long term damage to the brain and
body. I see that's pretty amazing.
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Yeah, I thought you'd liked that. So what do you think? Do
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you want to make another giant leap
for mankind? Yeah? Get it.
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I think the guy that walked on
the moon I thought it was funny.
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Ah, I must have missed him. I'll come back in nine months.
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Did I dream that voice build and
bi
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Space spasas. It's always the same
dream. Oh, I didn't know at
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the time that I'd miss it.
I wanted meaning Now I have longing.
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My parents tried to talk me out
of this, my friends too. I
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wouldn't listen. I never did.
I was so distant. I thought I
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knew, I thought I wanted this. Now the finality of the decision is
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eating away of my subconscious So I
just dreamed the same dream on repeat.
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The farmhouse, first, my childhood, then the move to Mars. I
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was so excited, But as I
got older, I wanted more, and
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I realized to git more, I
had to go January twenty fourth, twenty
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one thirty two, cry of cycle
completely initiating. Please try to relax.
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Your body is adjusting to the chemcom
leaving your system. You may feel disoriented.
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Can you confirm that you hear me? The head fog is the worst.
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You feel scrambled. It's not like
the two three day long tests back
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on Mars or Earth. This was
four years of brio going almost the speed
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of light. It feels like shit. Oh, you've confirmed that you hear
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me? I hear you. What
day is it? The current date is
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January twenty fourth twenty one thirty two
time slip may apply due to relativity.
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Would you like me to explain?
Did we pass by any large planets or
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singularities? As far as my systems
can tell, we did not? Okay,
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Well, how is your system?
I am working at optimal speeds and
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accuracy. Oh that's reassuring. How
long do we get there? Kelly is
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a cutting edge AI software. Closest
thing you have to a friend up here.
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As long as she's working right,
I get to live. I have
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to admit every time you lay down
in the tube or cryo chamber, it
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can't help wondering if you're ever gonna
wake up. We are four years into
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the six year trip to proximate Centaur. This is one of three cryo reset
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points. Gotcha, remind me what
this resets for? Complete system checks,
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health and psychology check, and mission
course and recorrection check. You can't do
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that while I'm asleeping. No,
your body isn't in a natural state win
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in cryo. The cryo compound can
Come eighteen is designed to lower your body's
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color need as well as slow the
metabolic process. I can only imagine what's
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in that compound. Cryo compound can
Come eighteen is trademarked under the Elician Astro
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Solutions Company in twenty and eighteen.
Oh yeah, sound safe. Just as
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shown, the compound has tested at
eighty nine percent success rate. All right,
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well, where do we start?
The system will have to do a
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full stress test. Would you like
to initiate? Yeah, might as well.
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Uh, let's get started. Hey, could I get a coffee?
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First? Coffee is being dispensed.
Dispensed, you don't have a way to
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bring it to me, Kelly,
what's that all about? I thought we
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were on our big, fancy spaceship. My mechanized units are unable to be
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deployed until the third cryo checkpoint.
Yeah, yeah, I gotta conserve energy,
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right, energy consumption is not a
concern. The robotic arms and mechanized
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units are unable to be restowed once
deployed, making treble dangerous. It is
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safety part of POLES section seed line
thirty two h. Of course I must
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have missed that when I tried to
read that giant manual. Would you like
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me to read it to you?
That would be like putting me back into
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cryo. Thanks, but no,
thanks, Your beverage is deplored. You
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will find the heated canister and the
dispense reach you to You're right, can
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you walk? Yeah? I think
so, let's try. That's not bad,
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Kelly, did you make this to
yourself? I dispensed it from your
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food stores. You have two hundred
pounds of coffee grounds fresh from the hills
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of Columbia. The coffee grounds were
cloned in the southern quadrant of the motors
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City Nexus, so test tube beans
awesome. When we realized the Earth was
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dying, we had to start growing
more food on Mars. Mars not having
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an atmosphere doesn't do very well in
the way of pollination or bees, so
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almost every plant is a clone.
The animals all clones. We were been
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cloning our own viruses to fight each
other in a desperate attempt for immortality.
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So we used our sickness to damn
near kill Earth, and then we brought
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it to Mars. What could go
wrong? Right? All right, let's
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get this going full system scan,
solar telemetry and relaying messaging. Wait,
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is there any messages I should know
about? You have one voicemail? Shall
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I play it? Might as well? Hey, Steve, it's Leonard.
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How you're doing? All right?
Would love to talk to you about that
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idea I proposed, well, asks
me, when you can? That's really
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odd? Shall I archive this?
Sure? What the hell would you want
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to talk about? I'm already on
his mission. Can you check for a
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fragmentation? This can't be right checking. There is a fragmentation anomaly in the
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storage drives. Shall I repair?
Yeah, go ahead, and we don't
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need anything else messing up because of
it. Purging anomaly? Oh god,
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Oh my head, Ah god,
god, my head. Are you all
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right, Stephen? I think so. I have an intense headache. Oh
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god. I will pause the purge
and dispense medication. All right. Thank
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you must have been the coffee.
You find ways to amuse yourself out here.
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You have to the endless ocean of
stars, all staring back at you,
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seem indifferent, the realization that you
don't matter at all. It's a
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constant fixture in the backdrop of black
hopelessness. It must be what a drop
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of water feels like like in an
ocean. The size and scope of it
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defeats us. All right, how's
it looking? Status update? All systems
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are out of sync by one percent
as per dilation. That's acceptable, and
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we don't have any real gravity other
than our centerfuge out here to keep us
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in line. So it makes sense. How's the telemetry are we tracking?
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All right? Telemetry is often no
deviations from course and our cloud of God
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particles is still there, right,
not like it's gonna take off on us.
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The particle cloud is there and sensors
reported increase in size by one point
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two percent. That's interesting. Why
is that unknown? Not enough data to
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resolve? That's all right, Kelly. We have a bigger mystery here.
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What is this tube of goo?
Is this dinner? Meal? Two?
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Is turkey, green beans, carrots
and apple sauce? Uh, it's all
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in one tube? Am I missing
something here? The meal is condensed to
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say, stay Stephen, Oh,
you spoil me. I do not understand
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it. Said joke, Kelly,
Man, They've really screwed you over on
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humor. This is gonna be a
long drive if you can't laugh at any
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of my jokes. Apology, Stephen. I can search for a software to
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help me understand humor. There's an
idea. Let me know what you find.
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I will update you on the next
cryo reset. I will be applying
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corrections to the dilation to keep us
on course. Yeah, I guess I'll
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be back in the fish tank in
the next eight hours. Huh. The
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cryostation is nearly reseat that can come
is supplied to last another nine months.
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Okay, just don't hit anything,
Stephen. The telemetry won't allow me to
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make mistakes or allowed for accidental collisions. So you say, all right,
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well, I'm gonna go watch a
movie and send an email off. Then
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I'll start winding down for the tube. Which film should I load for you?
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I don't know. Surprise me.
I just want to watch something.
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Maybe I'll dream about it. It'll
be a nice change. I will load
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your collection. I spent that evening
watching films from the twentieth century classics.
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These folks are long gone, and
it's amazing how much they got right and
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how much they missed the mark.
We could travel great distances in space,
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but we didn't have any flying cars
at home. Mars didn't have alien ruins
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on it, or so they say. AI wasn't a deadly killing machine of
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the future. We relied on it. Some said it was our next step
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in evolution. I wonder if Charles
Darwin would have ever guessed that one.
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Are you comfortable, Stephen, Well, I'm as comfortable as I think I'm
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going to get. I will begin
the sedative. You will feel light hitted
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at first. Yeah, yeah,
I know. I feel like I'm following,
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etc. So forth, I'll be
all right, Kelly, sleep well,
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Stephen, I will see you in
nine months. I'll see you then,
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hopefully, and the sleep begins again. Down and down I go the
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spiral some call it. You fade
to black at first, and there's a
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slight feeling of panic, you feel
helpless, and then you don't feel anything.
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You can still hear for a little
while, but what's there to hear?
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The deafening sound of silence. We're
putting together a mission to explore the
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particle cloud. You're familiar with it, right, yeah. I've been obsessed
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with the topic since I saw the
first news Reford. Awesome, Hey man,
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we're obsessed too. We want to
send a guy to study it first
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hand. You're a physicist, right
yeah. I'm also a seventh rank pilot.
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I could have went further, but
I'm not interested in military flying to
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want to fight in space. I
don't blame you. This is going to
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be a long term mission though,
eight years. If nothing goes wrong,
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that's round trip. Yeah, I
figured it was. I'm okay with being
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alone. Yeah, but it's eight
years. That's a good stint. I
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mean you'll be asleep for most of
the part, but still. Yeah,
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how's that technology working? Last I
heard it was spotty. We have made
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incredible leaps in the field. We
can keep you under for a year at
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a time, but we don't.
We do about eight to nine month sleep
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cycles with full reset. So that's
the trick. Huh. Give the body
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a few days of awake and then
sleep it again to reduce the risk of
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long term damage to the brain and
body. I see that's pretty amazing.
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Yeah, I thought you'd liked that. So what do you think? Do
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you want to make another giant leap
for mankind? Yeah? Get it.
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I think the guy that walked on
the moon I thought it was funny.
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Ah, I must have missed him. I'll come back in nine months.
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Did I dream that voice build and
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