I’m taking another holiday break this week, and I will likely not post anything until the new year.
But before I sign off on 2024 (which if we’re being honest, was a pretty sucky year), let me leave you with this fact.
The Voyager spacecrafts are the only man-made objects that have left our solar system. They are hurtling through the interstellar void, destination unknown.
It’s possible that billions of years from now, after travelling an unfathomable distance, one of the Voyagers may finally encounter an advanced alien civilization. These beings, impossible to imagine, haul in this relic of humanity, which has long ago gone extinct. They marvel at this last remanent of homo sapiens.
The Voyager spacecraft will be the only proof that humans were ever here.
Or something unforeseen happens way out there, and Voyager plummets into a distant sun, obliterating any proof that people ever existed.
Happy holidays!
