We are stardust
Neil: Yeah, I had to do some stuff like this when I was in Panama. Neil: Man, I remember when this place got held up when I was your age. Whilst parked across the street, Neil and Lis converse The player arrives at the Bobcat Depot and parks across the street. Neil: We look at that depot, see what we can do with it. They witness a robbery, they saw it as an angle to demand a cut of the loot. Neil: Fuck, it's a decent motive if I've ever seen one. Lis: For starters, there's no way in hell we're giving back the stuff after the trouble we went through to get it. Neil: Just some guards that said they saw what you did, took your guy, and are threatening to either kill him or for you to give the stuff over to them. Lis: There will be no killing of you, only killing of those who took Todd. Kane and I went out to meet Todd, he wasn't there, but the truck was. Kane and I went down through the skylight, got the merchandise, Todd showed up with a truck. Lis: Now isn't the time for corrections, but regardless, everything we did, we went over. Lis: What we went over with your train set. Neil: Alright Lis, tell me everything that happened the other night. The player is then instructed to drive to the Bobcat depot. The player is instructed to enter Neil's car Neil: To that fucking depot, you got my boy into this mess, you're getting him out of it! Neil: Fuck! Fucking fuck! I knew that would get fucked up somehow, just.didn't know it would be like this, fuck! Neil reads the rest of the letter, and clenches it in his fist Lis: Todd, alright!? They got fucking Todd! Lis: What I was wanting to tell you about before you went talking about your cable bill or some shit! The other night when we busted in that warehouse, it all went good except for one thing. Neil: Dear Neil, yadda-yadda-yadda, we have your son-I don't have a son. Neil puts the other letters down as he opens the one letter and reads it aloud Neil: What-what is this? It ain't got no return address on it. Lis: Yeah, Neil, that sucks how you gotta pay extra just to watch something that brings you army flashbacks, but we got a bigger problem. I'm paying for all those channels when I only need one-Īt this point, Neil opened up his mailbox and is shuffling through the mail Over a hundred channels and I only watch one of them. They spike my bill up by ten buck just because I get extra channels. Neil walks out of his house and over to his mailbox while they converse Better get it paid and over with, yeah? C'mon. Neil: I got shitty news for you too, my cable bill's gone up. Neil: Todd ain't around, if that's what you're wondering. As she's looking at it, Neil answers the door As she waits for Neil to answer, she looks and notices that Neil's Willard is parked in the driveway. Lis walks up to Neil's doorstep and rings his doorbell. All that we see of each other was born in a star.No matter what time it is when the mission is started, it will always begin at 12:00 p.m. They seem remote and distant, but we are really very close to them no matter how many lightyears away. And by a most elegant and remarkable transformation, our starstuff is capable of looking into the night sky to perceive other stars shining. Uncountable numbers of built-up atoms congealed into a planet, and a strange disequilibrium called life swept up a subset of those atoms into our mortal shells. The heaviest atoms in our bones may have required more than one cycle in the star furnaces to fatten up. The intense pressures and temperatures of these giant stoves thickened collapsing clouds of tiny elemental bits into heavier bits, which once fused, were blown out into space as the furnace died. This explanation says that every atom in each of our bodies was built up out of smaller particles produced in the furnaces of long-gone stars. Where did we come from? I find the explanation that we were made in stars to be deep, elegant, and beautiful. For 2012 the question was WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE DEEP, ELEGANT, OR BEAUTIFUL EXPLANATION? About 200 of us answered, compiled here.