Alex woke up rather abruptly to see a digital screen before his face. As his senses returned to him slowly, he thought he could hear some kind of slushy sound nearby him, but perhaps he was dreaming. The screen read:<br/><br/>Alex Dranowitz, body age 27<br/>5'8, 135 lbs<br/>All biological signals within safe ranges<br/>Time passed since launch 35 years, 3 months, 8 days, 13 hours and 2 minutes<br/><br/>It didn't feel like all his biological signals were within safe ranges. He felt light-headed, nauseous, and weak. It was a lot like the feeling he got when he got up too fast in the morning after not getting enough sleep. But this was no simple morning, he was awake in the future! Excited, he got himself upright and took a few steps.<br/><br/>"What's that smell?" he thought, and immediately realized that the hibernation chamber was befouled by some kind of sticky goop. He was not one to be grossed out, having worked years with smelly organic matter in labs on Earth, but the nausea after 35 years of hibernation was not made easier by this waking.<br/><br/>Suddenly he was again aware of the sick, slushy sound. He turned around. The sight before his eyes brought him over the edge. He vomited.