Explorer Note Santiago 3

by Santiago

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The scale of this thing, I dunno...

I keep getting caught in spirals, trying to picture all the variables for when I start making decisions around here.

How do you even start a list of essential items you need to make a backup of nature?

What do you pack to relocate to another planet?

I mean, we barely got far enough out into the dark to bring back evidence of alien life to argue about: a few amino acids, traces of something like chlorophyll...

Nothing like definitive proof we're not the only show in town.

If we'd found that proof, I wouldn't have to feel like it's on me to save the only things that ever looked up and thought about all those lights in the sky.

Heh, guess our transhumanist friends would argue differently.

Sorry...never been superstitious, or religious-whatever the term should be.

I'd, uh, better search the right term before uploading this.