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One of my weird conditional fantasies is a one-way trip to space past all the sights if I ever end up with a terminal but not debilitating illness. What do you have to lose? Take in the grand tour, hit the euthanasia button past Pluto. Would have to be fully automated.
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Europa above Jupiter captured by Voyager Credit: NASA
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Beginning to realize that having vaguely influenced a bunch of forgettable randos with blog commentary on a tv show that will itself be forgotten in a few decades is a lousy bid for posterity. I need a louder, more obnoxious plan b. One resistant to bitrot and climate apocalypse
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Build the Argonath
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We should build The Argonath on the farthest edge of Pluto’s orbit. So that whenever our descendants in 1000 years return from space voyages, they’ll fly by, say “The Argonath, long have I desired to look upon the people of old, my kin”. And know they are home