[ WP ] In 2018 NASA launches the most powerful telescope ever allowing us to see back billions of years , almost to the Big Bang . We start to receive the first images and they shock us all .

The image made absolutely no sense to anyone who was viewing it. Dr. Ken Gladstone thought it was a joke at first, but sure as the day was young, there it was. 
 
 No one spoke for a while as image after image came through the computer. Each one more impossible than the last. Something had to be wrong here. A wrong calculation. A computer glitch. Something! 
 
 It went against all logic. 
 
 “ Are we just accepting this? ” Dr. Gladstone asked the team. 
 
 “ It ’ s pretty damn compelling to me. ” Dr. Rodriguez said after taking a pull from her glass of bourbon. She was a couple of cups down, and she looked like she was feeling it hard. “ I don ’ t think any tests exist to debunk this one. ” 
 
 “ Maybe it ’ s broken. ” Dr. Jenkins said, sounding very sad. “ You know? We could try rebuilding the whole *Damned* thing.'' 
 
 “ You know as well as I do that won ’ t help. ” Dr. Rodriguez spoke up harshly. “ This is the reality, my friends. ” She took a shot. “ We are fucked. ” 
 
 Dr. Gladstone stared at the image again, and that nausea that hit him before came raging over him. This meant a lot to everyone, but the ramifications would make the observatory a microcosm of the reaction when these get out. 
 
 The last image came in before someone, mercifully, shut off the computer. It was burned into Dr. Gladstone ’ s memory for a long time. 
 
 In it, he saw himself, a perfect replica, doing exactly what he was doing. The problem was it was from a few million years before his family line even existed. The image, in reverse from later to earlier, showed a happier picture to him. 
 
 It was a group of people, crippled by grief, desolation, and a lack of purpose who grew rapidly excited as they took apart a massive telescope. He understood their happiness all too well.
