Post Office at the Edge of The Kuiper Belt

The Post Office at the Edge of the Kuiper Belt may or may not exist. In fact it probably doesn’t. But this improbability doesn’t mean that it actually doesn’t exist at all….or for that matter, that it probably doesn’t exist anywhere as remote and inhospitable as the Kuiper Belt. Which is or could be a pity; that depends. This book presumes it does exist or will come into existence at some time over the next 25years – the time it will take for the Navis-Spei spaceship to get there with its all-important letter addressed as follows: To Whom It May Concern, and with at least one intelligent creature, either biological or Android, or a combination of both, to post it! The Navis-Spei set off from Woomera in the South Australian Outback on the eve of the 1st of November 2027, moments before planet Earth was overwhelmed by a chain reaction of nuclear catastrophes; it was carrying 50 carefully chosen people whose job it was to continue the evolutionary tradition of ensuring survival of their species. Conceived by the United Nations General Assembly in anticipation of a definitive extinction event for humanity some time in 2027, and mindful of the 1945 Charter which established the UN, composition of the 50-person Colony represented at least its 6 foundation nations, and the letter to be posted had to be delivered in those 6 languages. Their challenge was enormous: the compilation of a condensed history of the human species from its origin through to its moment of annihilation in 2027. The expected product of their endeavors and the accumulated contributions and accretions of subsequent generations over the next 25 years of this Mission was categorically and unambiguously stated as: “A compendium of cross-causally linked forces which transformed the species’ evolutionary trajectory from its ancestral origins into mutation states which effected its extinction.” This book was suggested by the seemingly irrational behavior of the Russian President, Vladimir Putin in February 2022, when he decided to conduct a “special military exercise” in Ukraine which the rest of the planet read as “invading” Ukraine on the pretext that it was still part of mother Russia, whether it liked it or not, and not a Sovereign Country, which it claimed to be. Ukrainians argued that it was independent of Russia, with its own democratically elected government and a desire to join the European Union, which the EU supported in principle.