Steemit Cards #45 - @Suesa

Heinrich Rocher said :

Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction - in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow.

Join @suesa on her adventures while she makes the improbable seem possible.She combines Science with a bit of fictionand her stories really evolves into something awesome.

Here is a bit of her latest blog story Oxygen (Stranded, Part 1) :

...Nobody is coming. I’m all alone.

The realization hits me hard despite the fact that it had been obvious for at least a week. Because a week ago, they should have picked me up. But instead of the voices of my crew, there was just silence. And it stayed silent.

Even now I can’t hear anything but the gentle humming of the air filtering machine. I’m not sure how much longer it’s going to work though, it hasn’t been built for such a long time.

It was supposed to be a three days observation trip, nothing too fancy. Get on the research capsule, orbit around the planet for a bit, make sure to not be noticed by the natives and collect some data. Easy, I’ve done it so many times before, here and at other planets.

My crew has never before been late. And there is only one possible explanation: Something has happened.

They had probably been surprised by the Splerions. We shouldn’t have dismissed the warning of the high command which had informed us that Splerions had been sighted in this quadrant. This race of extremely aggressive insectoids had recently declared war on my world. My ship had been the last science ship out here.

And now it’s gone. And I’m alone.

I’ve considered landing on this big, blue and green planet more than once. The tiny dots of light that appear on the parts of the surface that are submerged in darkness seem to call for me. There are people here, they say. You won’t be lonely. You won’t be cold. Come, come to us.

But I can’t. The natives on this planet, they call themselves humans, they’re dangerous. Intelligent beings that don’t have wings, how is that possible? There are species on this planet that have wings, of course, but they are a lot less evolved.

Until we discovered this planet, it was the consensus that a species can only evolve higher cognitive functions if they have the means to escape predators. And that came with the ability to fly, each single observed time...