DiscountBrain

I forget which class Grace teaches in the middle school (idk Americans do you have split physical sciences and biological sciences??) but imagine for me real quick-

Grace is teaching a physics centralised lesson primarily focused on exploring the concepts of forces, wouldn’t it be cool to bring in Colt as a special guest?

I haven’t actually seen fall guy so I don’t know how Colt would be around children BUT based on the clips I’ve seen of his whole monologue voiceover at the beginning of the movie he must be really excited around his job as a stuntman and might find it cool to show off scars that he’s gotten from different stunts to a bunch of middle schoolers

And the tapes over time show him getting progressively older over time,

he shows them the beach or “human enclosure” marvelling at the technology that makes it possible for him to live on the planet,

Nerding out over all the new bacterium that have adapted to this planets environment and staking naming rights because he “saved the planet and all”

Sending videos of his classes with all the pebbles

Grace getting all excited at the camera because he’s able to document how exactly the gravity of the planet is causing his joints to deteriorate faster than they should have, as well as how the gravity is affecting his other systems (at least that’s what Armando says)

Also him picking up guitar or something because he can’t really walk around anymore or just is really bored, imagine a recording of an older him just singing, I’m thinking ‘spin the wheel’ from arcane (pretend arcane doesn’t exist in universe or grace is just a huge arcane fan)

And a final shitty recording of the eridians trying to use the camera but not quite sure how to use it, Rylands funeral recording makes it to earth

Rocky or Adrian figures out how to use the camera properly, the recordings continue for up to a hundred more years

Edit: another small idea, earth sends things to grace, he complains about not having access to potatoes or some type of clothing or something and 13-15 years later a small shuttle lands on tau ceti, its full of a bunch of graces old things and foodstuffs that increases the food he has available

maybe (if you wanna get poetic/ fanfic-esk) recordings of his old students (so much older, when did they get that tall?) thanking him,

his fellow coworkers from the school making a small video of what has changed around the school,

I’m genuinely interested, imagine 20-30 years after the Hail Mary is sent on its mission, and all the stuff (mainly grace being sent against his will) comes out my biggest interest is how the world would react.

I feel like there would either be a huge culture clash (people who are ok with it and others who are abhorred by the project for doing it) or it would be one of those things that is super buried by the government so not many people know about it or it’s really niche knowledge

I can only imagine the YouTubers covering it in a documentary format, like everyone knows the entire life story of all three of the astronauts sent on the mission and they are household names but OMG one didn’t even want to be there???