They're talking about detaching our ring if things keep getting worse, to try to keep our biomes uncontaminated.
I hope it doesn't come to that, but we have to do what we can to preserve the remaining biomes in the face of our rapidly dwindling odds.
I've been working on a whole system of backup automation to hopefully keep everything running as long as possible when-I mean if-we're all wiped out.
Our ship holds the last archival specimens of life from Earth, and there's an extinction-level event in progress.
I got nauseous just now while I was running microbial gas exchange models, because any stupid mistake I make could suffocate all the remaining Terran lifeforms in the universe.
If I forget to carry a number someplace, it could mean that no flower will ever push up through the soil and bloom again.
I have to get this right.