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Elliot smacked his keyboard. “No, no, no—come on!” He jiggled the mouse. Nothing. He checked his capture software: it had shut down at the 00:02:00 mark. He tried to scrub the timeline. The player window went gray. Then it went white. Then it went live .

Elliot looked at the paused screen. The astronaut’s face was frozen in a rictus of grief and wonder. He thought about his basement. His unpaid bills. The forum members who called him a king but didn’t know his real name.

The astronaut’s daughter smiled. “It’s okay, Daddy. They found you first.”