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Imagine being thousands of miles away for earth floating in the space at 10000 m/h speed , witnessing endless darkness of space, witnessing biggest mystery of life...and still being worried about financial situation back on earth.

Human mind is funny.




Stanley Kubrick already poked fun at this in "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968). Midway to Jupiter, astronaut Frank Poole reclines and utters robotic-sounding commands to the much-more-human-sounding onboard flight computer HAL while HAL displays a video of Frank's parents blowing out candles on a birthday cake, singing Happy Birthday to Frank, and telling Frank they're working on fixing problems with his payroll. A few hours later, Frank's lifeless corpse would find itself drifting through space.




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