[ WP ] You are a spaceman watching the destruction of Earth below you , what are your final thoughts ?

Where were you when the world caught on fire? I can tell you where I was: I was watching it from two-thousand miles up. Yesterday I saw seven billion people die at once. I saw life end. Men, women and children- they are all gone. Anyone who was not destroyed in the initial explosions will definitely be killed by ensuing the fallout. Yes, we knew that the earth had ended. 
 
 There were five of us up in the station. We stood together, watching the isolated explosions destroy everything we once knew. Everything we had worked for- gone. Burnt away in a fiery inferno which replaced the once green earth. We stood still in reverence- even our hearts refused to beat. We were together, sure, but we had never felt more alone. Standing in the empty imensity of space, I could always take solace in knowing that below me was my beloved home. Not anymore. Now, it's gone. My life is gone. 
 
 Jimmy did n't want to go back down. He said we would be doomed from the second we touched down. I do n't know what he thinks we would do up here. Sure, we have maybe two weeks of food and oxygen left, but then what? Do we just wait it out up here? Starve ourselves in orbit of a dead planet? No. If I have to die, it will be on the surface of my home. We're going back. 
 
 Although, dying is n't what scares me. We actually have a better chance of survival than some may think. If we land in the right area- an area with low levels of radiation- then we might stand a chance. No, dying is n't what scares me. After seeing mankind blow themselves up, you start to think differently about death. Do you know what scares me? Being alone. I'm scared to think that I might go down there, and be cursed to walk through an empty planet, a phantom of what once was. 
 
 Rachel tells me the pod is about to take off. I'm sealing this note inside a burn-proof capsule, just in case we do n't make it, and some survivor happens to find our ill-fated vessel. If so, I wish you the best of luck. My name is William Hirsch. I was on board the Nexus-14. Today we return to planet earth and the remains of what was once our home.
