“It does sound awful, to put your heart and soul in something and have h... have it taken away.” Beth immediately felt humiliated at her slip-up, realizing why she had almost used the wrong pronoun. “You’re one hundred percent right, let’s just change the subject to something better.”<br/><br/>The two arrived outside the door to the main set, but there was a red light over it indicating they should not go in yet. “Did you hear about how they reestablished contact with the Truth I space probe? That’s the one they launched eighty-five years ago to check out a planet that spectroscopically appears to have water and may have earth-like size and orbit around its primary. Everyone thought it was destroyed, but it just didn’t have enough power to transmit back to earth. Now that it is, or was, on the outer edge of the system it’s getting more solar energy. In just thirteen months, we may know if there is life existing outside our own solar system. Can you imagine? Of course, the probe actually arrived ten years ago, it’s just that its takes eleven years for a signal to travel eleven light years, and—” She stopped and laughed. “Sorry, I don’t mean to get too excitable—I’m just a big nerd at heart.”