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I don't have any experience with the weirder corners of university campuses – my work in that particular job just never happened to take me there. I did, however, once have to do a cable trace in the basement of a former Christian elementary school. It had haphazardly been subdivided into numerous tiny rooms, some as little as ten feet across, with no central hallways or apparent floor plan. Every single room was, for reasons that were and remain unclear to me, full of broken kitchen appliances. One room in particular contained an enormous industrial freezer unit that was larger in its smallest dimension than any of the doors leading to it. Was it delivered in pieces and assembled on site? Did they build the room around it? That one still bothers me a little bit.

Original post by @morallygrayautisticscientist here, this post was so funny I decided to draw it lol.

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He still believes that there are kinds of live out there that go beyond what humans can comprehend, and he is going to do what he can to show it.

At the start Grace is stubborn about he having to do this by himself, but Rocky is five times more stubborn about that there is no good to be alone in space, so Grace ends going with Rocky as his engineer and Adrian as their biologist support (who is not letting their mate, nor their friend go without them for years again.) in the Hail Mary. Maybe other eridian scientists interested in the premise of finding more kinds of life in the universe decide to follow their track in another spaceship (this time with radiation protection.), but the Hail Mary is the one leading.

They never mention Grace's health, and how is getting weaker and weaker, they are to focus on recording every discovery and new planet they see. It is like all those good memories Grace and Rocky had of their time in space without the concerns of having to safe a civilization or dying of starvation.

I also like to believe that before Grace's do find a waterless life form, maybe some kind of bacteria that he names "Graceteria" or something and then he writes a paper following that essay that kick him out of the academia, showing that he was right all along, that is his last big act.

He may get back to die in Erid, he may die in space, but he did so happy and satisfy.

I also believe that he donated his corpse to science.

He dedicated his life to science; He learn from it, taught it, even make discoveries for it. I feel he would want his remains to help eridians to understand human biology better, all for the sake of sciences and progress.

Rocky is against this, but Adrian understands, and is they who do the autopsy, with as much care and solemnity they can manage in such a sad moment. All the scientist community is there, moved by curiosity of course, but more for respect.

The biodome stays intact, a memory of the alien willing to sacrifice his life for a foreign race's star. Most of eridians do not dare to go in, too afraid of disturbing the place, but Rocky would lived there if Adrian didn't have an opinion on the subject.

i put them on my front door and anytime it opens they ring. that way if i think someone has broken in or i see someone who isn’t there i can think back to if the bells have rung, and if they haven’t i can assure myself it’s not real. obviously it’s not fool proof, like if you are prone to auditory hallucinations, but it has really helped me calm down in time to avoid major psychotic breaks. it’s a real lifesaver

When I said it was birdseed she just went “oh- can they actually eat that? Is that safe?”

I didnt know how to respond like, at all, so I just pointed at the duck and said “bird”