[ WP ] `` Humanity spent its childhood reaching for the sky . When they held it in their hands , they found naught but empty space . ''

He stared into the blackness. Not space itself, but a simple LED monitor, which showed white dots in place of stars. This was the best they could do. Windows let in deadly radiation, he had never even seen space with his own two eyes. Nearly a year traveling the fastest the ship could allow, and he had not made even a dent in his journey. They were traveling to the nearest planet, some 10 light years away. Even moving at a pace the laws of physics deemed illegal, they would be in a metal box, breathing artificial air and drinking in artificial light for years to come. They had not told him this when he became an astronaut. The emptiness of it all. He had dreams of milky heavens and radiant light, but there naught but nothing. Everything was racing away from him. It was an aspect of physics, not matter where you are, you are at the center of the universe, and are falling farther and father away. It was a bitter irony, one he mused upon often. He looked at the monitor. They were passing by a black hole, an object of such mass, it's gravity pulled even light into it's abyss. He stared at the object. It was everything he had come to know about space. He pressed some keys on the controls, and the ship began to steer towards it. Everything in the universe ends up here, maybe I'll find what I've been looking for.
