The Ultimate Guide To Absolutely Everything In The Universe

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It had seen planets crumble and stars

ignite. It had skimmed super massive

black holes and galaxy destroying quazar

jets. It had crossed light years of

nothingness and caught a glimmer of the

edge of the universe.

And now, more than 4 billion years after

its epic journey had begun, the probe

had returned

home. The sun was a swollen red giant,

grotesque and violent. Mercury and Venus

were gone. Earth, such as it was,

survived, but only as a tattered lump of

iron and nickel orbiting dangerously

close to the dying

star. Humanity, barely a 100 million in

total, had found a new home on Europa.

The heat from the red sun had melted its

ices long ago, and now the little moon

of Jupiter was the only sanctuary they

could

reach. It took the probe several minutes

to decipher the strange language of the

radio signals they sent. It seemed the

remaining humans were a buzz with

curiosity, tinged with hope. They

remembered the probe even though it had

been launched so long ago. Memory of the

event miraculously preserved through the

ages. Humanity, they said, had tried and

tried again to spread amongst the

galaxy, but every attempt at a colony

had failed. They could send machines out

into interstellar space, but every time

they had attempted the crossing for

themselves of the great void between the

stars, their frail bodies had failed

them. As far as the humans knew, they

were all that was left. And as the

beating red sun at the heart of their

solar system constantly reminded them,

they were running out of time.

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But they also knew that long ago

interstellar spacecraft like the

returning probe had been created,

fashioned with artificial intelligence

as keen and sharp as any biological

brain to go forth into the galaxy and

the greatness

beyond. These probes had been tasked

with cataloging everything, yielding the

history and secrets of the universe in a

way that no mid telescope ever could.

From the relative proximity of the inner

solar system to the most distant alien

and bizarre things in the cosmos, the

probes had been told to see it all. The

largest, the most powerful, the

weirdest, all of

it. And all of this searching, all of

this cataloging, all of this measuring

was to be in service of a greater goal.

To find a way for humanity to travel

beyond the solar

system. Over the unfathomable ages,

millions of spacecraft had been sent.

But only one had returned.

And so, fulfilling its promised mission

to its long deadad creators, the Lonely

Probe began to tell its

multi-billionyear story, relating what

it had learned, the extraordinary events

it had encountered, the remarkable

places it had

been. It began to describe everything

within the universe.

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Mission parameter one, search for signs

of life outside the solar

system. The probe had called itself

Batuta. It had taken the name from the

great 14th century explorer Iban Batuta

who had traveled over the course of

three decades across the entire known

Muslim world in his lifetime covering

almost 117,000 km and handily beating

out other great explorers such as Marco

Polo and Jung

Hur. The spacecraft knew that such a

name would be fitting as it ventured out

into the seemingly endless black.

But before it could begin its journey

beyond the solar system, it had to pass

a series of

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tests. It had a thousand siblings, each

one as smart and capable as itself. But

only a select few would be granted the

privilege of fully independent thought

and autonomous action outside of any

human control. Those who failed would be

stuck forever inside the solar system.

Batuta had to show its human creators

that it could survive the harsh

conditions it would face in the wider

universe and that it could concoct

clever experiments to divine nature's

most closely held secrets. And so it

began its trials on Titan, the largest

of Saturn's moons and one holding

remarkable secrets. Secrets uncovered by

a probe just like Batutoa many millennia

before. Titan was discovered by humanity

in 1655 when pioneering astronomer

Christian Hygens spotted it with his

homemade telescope. Hygens himself was a

key figure in the evolving scientific

revolution and was also the first to

attempt to scientifically explore the

possibility of life on other worlds.

writing, "Some planets indeed might be

capable of accommodating several species

of rational creatures possessed of

different degrees of reason and

sense, but little did Hygens know that

Titan itself would be a

candidate." And it was on that moon that

centuries later, humanity achieved a

great milestone of space exploration. In

2005, a small probe not even 3 meters

wide broke free from its attachment

harness on the left side of the Cassini

spacecraft that had spent nearly seven

years in its journey to Saturn. And it

took the probe a further 22 days to

coast from Cassini's orbit to Titan.

This craft named after Hygens used a

parachute to slow its descent through

Titan's atmosphere. This only working

because among all the worlds in the

solar system, Titan is the only place

besides Earth and Venus to host a

significant atmosphere surrounding a

rocky

body. Hygens landed gently, making a

dent in the icy surface before bouncing

and sliding to a stop. The first time

that an emissary of humanity had touched

the surface of a world in the outer

solar system.

For Batuta, Hygens was a true

pioneer. And indeed, the world it

touched down on was unlike anything else

that humanity had ever

encountered. 50% larger than Earth's

moon and 80% more massive, Titan is

appropriately named. Its core is mainly

rock, but its crust is made of ice.

Surrounding that is a dense, thick

atmosphere, even denser than the