A Page From The Diary Of A Space Traveler

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It’s 7:40 am in planet A0749P of Andromeda galaxy and I just woke up from a long cryogenic sleep of 102 years. My AI cook had prepared my morning protein shake containing 47 space bugs which I’ve bought from the supermarket of A0749P because my fitness band have detected deposition of ethyl mercury in my left iris and these bugs have the magical power to eat up all depositions.

Then I looked at my monthly planner, Voila! I have to go back to earth this month, but before that, I have to refuel and service my space ship from nearby service station which is just 3 light-years away. On reaching there the service engineer informed me that it takes just a day to service and refuel my fusion type nuclear spacecraft. Just then a holographic advertisement popped up showing 238U (URANIUM-238) whole-body massage spa at natural satellite ‘YETI‘ just 2 astronomical units away. So I decided to go for it to pass my time.

After the servicing and the rejuvenating spa, I decided to take the intergalactic wormhole toll ticket for the solar system of milky way galaxy. So I paid 6 emerald bitcoins at the counter. Then, they pointed me to a bright blue entry portal, in a wink of time I reached Mars exit portal. Then a holographic notice popped up showing ’The earth action plan’ it reads… As there was heavy damage done to the Earth, many people were sent to other planets and distant galaxies for resources. But now due to extensive care, remaking of the ozone layer and by planting fast-growing genetically modified trees the Earth is revived to its old glory. Due to this according to the new solar system space travel laws, I was not supposed to drive faster than 51 kilometres per second.

I decided to watch a movie and put my spaceship in autopilot mode. I searched my genetic movie collection which was all old and boring, but still, I selected a decent one and uploaded it on the holographic screen. The title was ‘History from the beginning of everything‘, it showed the life of Lal Legweak who was the first homo sapien to step foot onto another galaxy. For rest of the boring part of the movie it showed the birth of the universe about 13 million years ago, one second after the big bang the 1st element hydrogen was formed, in about 3 min everything cooled a bit and atoms became stable. When H2 gas was put under great pressure stars and galaxies were formed and blah… blah…blah…

Overall I enjoyed the movie with a bowl of dopamine infused popcorn. Suddenly I experienced a vigorous jerk as my jerk detector informed me that my spaceship was hit by Halley’s comet just outside the Earth’s atmosphere. As the intensity of the jerk increased, I opened my eyes and saw my mom in a furious mood, ordering me to get up or else I would miss the school bus.