nightbat wrote

Darla wrote:

I am aging.

Sadness can age a person.
Now that the Perseus data is nearly processed, I guess the shock is catching
up to us.
We are All aging here right now.

Uhm.
We lost one of our members in Perseus.
You had not met this one yet, Sil.
Silouen.

Sil was one of the finest engineers and pilots we had.
Rare among us.
Vision and coordination as good as any of your pilots.
Sil was out scouting the hole that had disrupted the nebula we were
studying.
The hole changed direction unexpectedly, and Sil was caught in its grip.
Happened too fast, nothing we could do.

Do not know where Sil is now, just no longer with us.
Uhm.
We are all feeling the effects now, so probably will be quiet for a time.

So sorry, probably should not have burdened you with this.

Until later.
Many good wishes to you.

Darla


nightbat

Earth internet station to cosmic visitors, come in please, over.
Earth internet station to cosmic visitors, please come in, over.

You've got to snap out of it Darla, think endorphins. Yes, the loss of a
crew member is very hard, but don't think about it, for the negative
stress will age you even more then the few millions of years you already
are. Nightbat warned you to be safe, but did you listen to me? Noooooo,
Sil just had to go out by her/himself and check out a nubula and get
caught in its unpredictable turbulence. If you had remembered to give
Sil one of the intergalactic decoder rings, you might have been able to
maintain communication and traced the trajectory before she/he was shot
into deep space or worst crushed by the reverse jet stream. How much
life support did she/he have in her/his exploratory craft, and how could
you just leave her/him at the mercy of the cosmic tidal forces? Cosmic
jet stream gliders are no good, for you need emergency space backup gas
jet equipped craft or suit jet packs to get out of tight situations like
that. Gee, even Nasa knows that, I can't believe you let that crew
member go without a good nebula alternate safety contingency return
procedure. Now we know why you are looking for more Earth pilots or help
in keeping the ones you still somehow have left.

Don't worry, I'll ask Bert to bake you a sweet potato pie to cheer you
and the alien and saved Earth man crew up. Got to get a hold of
yourself, the star system mission needs you. How else will we get all
our questions answered if you don't stop aging? Remember St. Cloud, oc,
Bert, Odysseus, Bohne, Greysky, the Ancient One, Luigi, and the rest of
the bunch in alt.astronomy need some hope of your finally coming across.
You don't want to be called or be known as an Alien tease do you? What
can we do to make you stop aging, I know, Happy Alien Valentines day.

Ok, Earth internet station out (:~)

ponder on,
the nightbat