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I tilted my face up and gave the eye in the sky the finger. It didn\u2019t matter. They already knew where I was. \u201cLet\u2019s go in.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWait,\u201d said Gibson, both hands cradling a mug of Mormon <\/strong>tea\u2014a desert plant with tiny orange flowers that isn\u2019t tea at all and doesn\u2019t even taste like it. \u201cYou want to send my films to space? Like, to aliens? To another planet?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWell,\u201d said Eustace. \u201cTo orbit near<\/em> another planet. Nobody knows if there\u2019s any life there. But it\u2019s possible.\u201d<\/p>\n I said, \u201cThe eiroscope is going anyway, and we\u2019ve already bundled up as much archive as we can. If there is anybody out there, or if some future humans make it that far, the eiroscope can help them decode what we saved. It\u2019s like a \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cTime capsule,\u201d said Little Jo, rubbing the sweat off her neck while I made a point of not watching. \u00a0<\/p>\n Gibson\u2019s chair creaked as she resettled. The sun was sliding lower, light slanting dusty through the doorway, and finally, finally, a breath of breeze stirred the air in the nave. \u201cWon\u2019t it take centuries to get there? And if the\u2014the eiroscope goes, who will keep the sanctuary safe?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve forked,\u201d said the eiroscope. \u201cOne of me will stay\u2014well, many of me will stay\u2014and one of me will go. I\u2019ll be able to talk to myself for a long time, though there will be quite a lag between parts of my consciousness eventually. Light speed, after all. But I am big and patient and can wait.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBut we need to transmit now,\u201d said Little Jo. \u201cThe CubeSats are in position to hit a string of signals over the next two hours, and we want to get them out of orbit because space is mostly transparent, and somebody is going to notice them assembling and try to do something about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n #time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I tilted my face up and gave the eye in the sky the finger. It…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-13543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-time"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-1152119953.jpg",1200,600,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-1152119953-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-1152119953-300x150.jpg",300,150,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-1152119953-768x384.jpg",640,320,true],"large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-1152119953-1024x512.jpg",640,320,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-1152119953.jpg",1200,600,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-1152119953.jpg",1200,600,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-1152119953-1024x512.jpg",1024,512,true],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-1152119953-540x340.jpg",540,340,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?author=1"},"category_info":"Stories<\/a>","tag_info":"Stories","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}