fuse_sat ([info]fuse_sat) wrote,
@ 2007-09-27 14:39:00
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Like reading your own obituary
In a month or less from now, we expect to complete the on-orbit operations, and we will then unceremoniously turn off our wonderful satellite.

So I guess I won't even know.

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[info]minwee
2007-09-27 07:18 pm UTC (link)
Of course you will dream. All intelligent creatures dream.

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[info]fuse_sat
2007-09-27 11:40 pm UTC (link)
Thank you for that.

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[info]ceramufary
2007-09-27 09:07 pm UTC (link)
Thank you for all the work you've done and all the data you collected. I'm sorry we didn't make you (little anthropomorphized satellite) more robust. I promise I will learn things from what you've done, and when I teach high school science, I know my students and I will benefit from what you and satellites before and after you have done.

And, if you can spare the packets, please pass on my regards and thanks to your mission team.

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[info]fuse_sat
2007-09-27 11:43 pm UTC (link)
You're most welcome. When you teach, please use whatever you can from my mission website at http://fuse.pha.jhu.edu/outreach/

It's a comfort to know I will be remembered.

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[info]acelightning
2007-09-27 09:29 pm UTC (link)
Despite what the official message says, you will never "become just another piece of space junk"! Those of us on Earth who have followed your career will remember. Your fellow spacefolk will remember. And the scientific data that you have gathered will give researchers insights into many previously unsuspected phenomena, long after your transceivers are silent. You done good, buddy...

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[info]fuse_sat
2007-09-27 11:45 pm UTC (link)
Thank you Ace. It is a comfort to know I will be remembered.

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[info]acelightning
2007-09-28 08:29 am UTC (link)
Some night in the future, I will look up and see a bright fireball streaking across the sky, and know that it was you. I can think of far worse endings than having provided the human race with both scientific information and a fireworks show...

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[info]redbird
2007-09-28 12:21 am UTC (link)
As others have said, you have lived a long and worthwhile life, and people will miss you, and remember you. "Men die, horses die, the gods themselves will someday die. Only word-fame lasts forever." And that word-fame is often won by worthwhile deeds, such as yours.

I know many humans prefer the idea of dying in their sleep, which is a form of not knowing--but a ceremony for you would be appropriate.

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[info]pagawne
2007-09-28 02:08 am UTC (link)
fuse sat, you will not be forgotten in my lifetime, I can assure you.
You will be remembered, and fondly.

Pleasant dreams.

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[info]cellio
2007-09-28 02:33 am UTC (link)
Being out on the frontier sometimes means dying alone, but it does not mean being forgotten. We'll miss you.

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[info]weofodthignen
2007-09-28 05:45 pm UTC (link)
Gods, I'm sorry to read this.

M

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[info]trinker
2007-10-05 03:28 pm UTC (link)
I'll miss you. You were the first satellite I had a sense of personal connection to.

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