Originally Posted by slowhand

Ground Control to Major Tom
Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you....

"Here am I floating round my tin can
Far above the Moon
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do."

I had a boating accident in 1996..July 27 to be exact, where my boat was taking on water and rolled over and sank..and just before I abandoned ship, I thought to myself.."So this is how it all ends"..Alot of thoughts go through your head in a short time..You think of family..my daughter, my girlfriend at the time, and I really felt strongly that I wasnt ready to go, that I had so much more living to do..But this is a bit different than the question that this thread asks, in that, I had a chance for survival, whereas being stranded out in space is final..I would in that case probably go through alot of the same mental and emotional gymnastics, go through numerous scenarios in my mind..and then hopefully accept my fate, and hope its over soon

Originally Posted by gorillamom

First I'd throw up just from the take off, then I'd throw up looking out the window, then I would throw up from the smell emmitting from Comic's underwear! Sorry Cos, I just couldn't resist saying it.

Originally Posted by gorillamom

Please don't insult the wonderful apes by refering to that trader as an ape. Apes are smarter by far.

Originally Posted by The_Heretic

Okay, I think I should clarify that the solar system you're in has planets but none you could live on and while the ship's big and advanced enough to sustain people for long periods, it's like like Red Dwarf.

Originally Posted by MarkMiller

I'm pretty sure he just said an ape would be better than Cheney.

As to the answer to this....I would return home as planed. Everyone may be dead but that doesn't mean I have to die. I would also not really believe everyone on earth is dead just because some low level mouth piece for Nasa tells me so. No, I would return to earth and pick up the peices. It may be what fate was looking for to begin with.

Now if you write this as a story and sell it.....I want residuals!

Originally Posted by The_Heretic

Strangely, this is where my thinking was going. That, assuming no suicide among at least the last person left, their thoughts would wander toward family and possibility had not the end come.

So it occurred to me that were I the last I'd begin recording reports to anyone and no one, laying down the ground work of my own experiences as a human being and- hopefully, give a context for how and why Homo sapiens failed and went extinct in the end. By telling my story I would be telling the story of the whole species for whomever would eventually find it.

I figured as a final act I'd post a sign over whatever monitor or workstation I might die at. The sign would read:

Originally Posted by AlineaHeart

Perhaps it should read "Thank god I got away!"

I'd have to pull out my ultrasound machine and see if the phrase "it's what is on the inside that counts" holds true.

Originally Posted by The_Heretic

The visitors welcome thing would be the coolest ending of a novel, don't you think?