"I feel bullshitted. Honestly, all that fuzz? Aliens? Nuclear weapons? It's just a research facility for the army. Area 52? Imagine how boring the other 51 areas must be... Jesus. Anyway, I've basically roamed each facility that could have been potentially interesting into solving the problem in the last few months." He picked up the camera and started pacing through the room, the camera facing him.

"So if I have to dumb down everything to a level where I can understand it myself, it's basically like this: The planet is coming at us with a certain speed. With the time stop, that speed is irrelevant. Problem one: solved. Lack of time 1, me: zero, it seems." He smiled at the absurdity of the statement.

"The planet, or meteor as I'd prefer to call it at this point, is roughly 600 miles wide and shaped like an orb, a ball if you will. If it crashes on the planet, we all die. A shock wave of that size..the planet would just erupt. There's not a chance it can sustain an impact like that. But, as we previously concluded, that's not going to happen. So what do we have to do? What do I have to do?"

He inhaled and sped up his pace.

"Frankly, I don't really know. The time stop is working against me in the sense that I can't really test what's going to happen if I were to, let's say, manage to explode the planet coming towards us. Would time start again? Would we then die by the chunks falling down on earth? Would they drift in space, still stuck in time stop? And the only way I'll get to find out, is if I go into space." He exhaled. He couldn't help but grin. For the first time in a few months a laugh rumbled deep from his stomach and a few tears welled up in the corner of his eyes.

"Never thought I'd say. Looks like I'm going to make the childhood dreamreality." He chuckled and turned the camera off. As he put it down on the tablenext to him, he picked it up again and turned it on. "So yeah, Dad, you owe me$5 bucks. And don't worry, I'll wait all the time in the world to see you pay." He turned off the camera again. "Ineed to experience a complete lack gravity" he said to himself, a habit heaccustomed to in his last few years of isolation. "Let's see where that ispossible."