Stuck on Moon: Log Entry
Dear Digital Diary,
It has been 100 days since I arrived on the moon. I don’t have anything to do here. My mission was supposed to be of 4 days and then I’d have boarded the spacecraft and returned home. I am just a maintenance guy, I came here to fix some utilities at the terran station so that the next batch of humans can come and live here, do their research. But they say I cannot come back now, they cannot send the spacecraft because everyone is at war. Earth seems pretty small from the Moon. I can see some fireworks on Earth, I think they are missiles and not fireworks. I said that how can war prevent the space flight? They said that there was a possibility that someone will mistake it for an ICBM launch and blast it out of the sky. They cannot take that risk. Hmphf. I did not bring any of my video games here, so I have nothing to do, all the books on the station kindle are about research. I cannot even download anything because internet hasn’t reached here. Also all the communication goes through a single satellite that goes to a specific station on Earth. So I can only communicate. I have asked them to send me some pdfs of books. But they haven’t responded yet. I think they are busy tracking missiles and ICBM launches. I have fixed everything on the terran station, all utilities are working now. I have also roamed around the Moon, but there isn’t much here to sight see. It is all just white rocks and that’s it. The car that they have here is complex to control so I haven’t tried to turn it on. I don’t wanna break a billion dollar car. It is just so lonely. I could be on Earth playing the God of War: Reckoning Part 4 but here I am sitting on this rock and looking at Earth. Did I say that it looks so small? I think I see a hurricane forming, probably gonna displace a lot of people. They told me that there was no ETA for when the war will halt. I asked them why was everyone fighting, I got a gibberish answer; water or land is my guess. It is always water or land or some other asset. But a menial maintenance worker doesn’t understand the complexities of the world. I just want to go home. Wait…Maybe not. I will be enrolled in the military and I will have to go to the frontlines, I do play a lot of first person shooter video games but actually living the FPS video game would be terrifying. I have a lot of respect for the soldiers. There is ample food and water at the terran station. Water comes from a huge piece of ice, mixed with treated water. Food is all microwaved. You cannot cook here. But the food and water here will last for at least a year. So no worries there for now. The terran station tracks a lot of asteroids and meteorites and planets. Everything is automatic. They have multiple research laboratories here, a mini hospital and a small gym. One thing that I am worried about is the bone density loss, if I live here for long then I won’t be able to adjust on Earth. Probably will fall ill and become paralysed or something. I wasn’t supposed to be here for more than 4 days, this sucks. Why they gotta fight? This is ridiculous. I have heard the songs on the Terran stations so many times that I am now bored. Every astronaut carried their own devices for entertainment. I did not bring anything because I knew I’d have to work around the clock and then go back. I never anticipated this. I’m reading this book on growing algae in space, what a boring book. Maybe because I don’t understand anything in it. I just look at the screen where the foreign bodies are being tracked for 3-4 hours a day just to see if something interesting would happen, but nothing does. It is just a black never ending space. Space is boring. I used to think it would be an adventure but it isn’t. Did I mention that my hair has started to grow back? That is probably a good side effect I guess. But I know when I go back to Earth I will go bald again, I just have a feeling. I should start writing my own sci-fi book and then when I am on Earth, get is published and become rich, that’s the only positive side of this experience. Many people have gone to the Moon and everyone has their own book. I have read some of them and I think all their adventures in the book are made up. You have a low chance of dying on the Moon than on the Earth.
Sun is a nice big ball of fire.
Okay, there is a communication message from Earth, I have to go now and read it, it won’t be anything important because I see the fireworks and I know the war is ongoing, so it would just be a checking-in message. But I have to reply so they are aware that I am not dead.
