Zero: Hello, universe. This is Icarus ship 184-31A, resuming broadcast after some minor technical difficulties. Internal relative time is 21,946,623.685 Earth years post-launch.
Zero: The stellar fragment is shining, the weather is absolutely PERFECT, and life is continuing in its beautiful endless dance.
Zero: My name is Zero. It will be a pleasure to meet you.
Wonder how many it is since completing the initial colonization mission...
Wonder if anyone outside is listening...
If zero looped the ship around I wonder if any possible descendants of the original crew would even remember the ship was returning and not visiting for the first time...
Yeah, I'm blathering stream of consciousness stuff. :)
Those questions are all for future series to answer.
Incidentally, Phil Plait has theorized that given enough motivation, a species could completely colonize this galaxy in "a few million years" (page 210 of the print edition of Bad Astronomy, in discussing UFO sightings).
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Wonder how many it is since completing the initial colonization mission...
Wonder if anyone outside is listening...
If zero looped the ship around I wonder if any possible descendants of the original crew would even remember the ship was returning and not visiting for the first time...
Yeah, I'm blathering stream of consciousness stuff. :)
I like the ending.
Incidentally, Phil Plait has theorized that given enough motivation, a species could completely colonize this galaxy in "a few million years" (page 210 of the print edition of Bad Astronomy, in discussing UFO sightings).
I'm all alone, more or less...