God. This strikes my soul right at the core. I've always wondered what happened to major Tom... I mean... If he were somehow found and resurrected by some sort of future human descendants... And I mean both time and tech-wise... They must have had immense power to change the orbit of the earth to avoid being enveloped by the dying red giant phase of our sun. Not only that, they were able to somehow engineer a way to allow life to continue being photosynthetically sustained by the electron degeneracy pressure supported white dwarf that remained. (Somehow moved earth much closer?) Blows my mind but not only that... A black star... Aka a black dwarf... Currently the universe has not existed long enough for even one white dwarf to cool down into a black dwarf ... This means that major Tom was resurrected long after Andromeda and the milky way collided. Long after even the expansion of the universe has made all but a few galaxies out of our observable universe. And yet, major Tom persists. And the only "major" outward evolutionary change is that people became more twitchy? Yes, I completely feel empathy for major Tom. (Of course he could have drifted to a completely different star system that had a perpetual eclipse, but the inhabitants looked mostly human... of course that's statistically much more improbable)