There's gift I've ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike.

It was a sort of slick little road bike and I remember it was all like it was so it was all wrapped up

but it was so obvious what it was obviously because nothing shaped like a bike and I had a little ribbon on it and I was so

I guess. For that was a life changer and I'm still sort of big on cycling around my area now so for that one change me a little.

I enjoy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.

My eyes stung with dry pain and I rubbed them with my palms trying to massage the last bit of moisture into them from the inside of my eyelids.

Like ringing out a sponge that's been sitting in the desert sun there's little benefit. Still I continue to stare at the computer screen in my home office waiting for the final calculations to finish.

If I was right about this the dark silhouette of a planet and I've been staring at the last two days really was capable of harboring life.

Maybe even intelligent life.

The thought seemed surreal and dreamlike for the evidence of my exhausted state could really be happening.

It just wasn't possible was it?

A second later the status bar showed complete and the calculations were finally done and again to read through the results showing temperature variations and percentages of various compounds reading down from the top my heart began to hammer faster and faster in my chest.

Nitrogen 78% Oxygen 20.9% Argon 0.9 Carbon dioxide 0.03

Additional gases see further breakdown below 0.17 median temperature 58.43 degrees Fahrenheit.

It was impossible.

The composition of the atmosphere the temperature the size of the planet and its proximity to its star which just so happened to be a g type yellow dwarf main sequence star.

All these features.

Fiddle identical to Earth which meant I discovered the one planet every astronomer had dreamed of finding.

A unicorn the Goldilocks the twin to our one of a kind blue speck in the middle of the impossibly vast ocean.

That is space.

If there was one place amongst the stars that could harbor intelligent life this was it.

I sent an email to my superiors telling them what I discovered but it bounced back saying undeliverable.

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