Well and truly. Maybe I should have told them that my 02 tanks got fried at the same time as the radio, but there didn't seem much point. It wouldn't have changed the fact that there's not enough air left in them now to get me back anyway. Maybe it'll stop some other guy dying out here, maybe not. Either way, it's about time all this was out in the open.
People deserve to know what's been going on out here.
It's nice and quiet now though. Just me, the rock, the dust, and this half-mapped maze of canyons, valleys and chasms where They were first found, exactly a decade ago last week. Didn't mean to. Should have paid more attention in ancient history - took off in his natty little rocket almost a century ago. Saw it on TV though, watched it again and again, all through the night, afraid it was some kind of practical joke by the guys at Copernicus Base who'd dumped us there, desperately trying not to feel the same excitement that had swept around the world like a mexican Wave back in '96 when those guys at NASA announced they'd found traces of ancient, long-extinct martian life in some meteorite they picked off the ice in Antarctica.