Why do p.eople have to be this lonely? what's the pont of it all? millions of people in this world all of them yearning, looking to others to satidfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the Earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?

I closed my eyes and listened carefully for the decendants of Sputnik,  even now circling the Earth, gravity their only tie to the world. Lonely metal souls in the unimpeded darkness of space, they meet, pass each other, and part, never to meet again. No words passing between them. No promises to keep.