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My mistake, not going to Mars. Using Mars as a testing ground. They are planning to inhabit an Earth like exoplanet orbiting Proxima Centauri discovered in 2016. This planet has a good possibility of water, breathable air, maybe consumable flora and fauna. It is their first option, mars is their second. But mars is not ideal.

They are terraforming mars because Earth is dying due to pollution that’s increasing Earths temperature. It’s on track to rise 3 more degrees in the next 120 years. So they are trying to get a transportation device built to evacuate earth to mars. They are abandoning earth.

Carson lied to Gillian. They aren’t orbiting Earth, they are headed to orbit Mars. She is enraged at the thought of being so far from her daughter. There was a murder at the space station and they are trying to determine why it happened. Do the astronauts all have Losians?

Final words Kent ever spoke to Gillian were Who are you?

Gillian’s addicted to opiates

She gazed at the objects in the room. Everything from before his death looked different now. It was one of the many oddities of losing someone that close. The most mundane things became hypnotizing. A notepad transformed into a well of memories. Losing someone didn’t mean they really went away. His ghost was everywhere she looked.

Losians is rare, it comes out of nowhere and destroys who you are.

NASA is working on something revolutionary in terms of travel. There have been neurological side effects bogging down the project. Carson asks Gillian to go into Space with him for 6 months to research and help them. He promises to let her continue researching in her downtime, and will fully fund her research indefinitely when they get back.

Former boyfriend who works for NASA Carson shows up on Gillian’s doorstep. He knows fundings been cut, and he knows that Losains will eventually overshadow Alzheimer’s.

This page explains the disease and talks about how they think pollution and genetic factors could be the cause.

She is headed for space to do research on astronauts who have come down with Loasians. In the past narration parts, Gillian’s been told she only has one months worth of funding for her research on a cure.

Year 2028, smog and pollution so bad people wear masks in the city. Landslides in China and Peru because of heavy rainfall. Last of the arctic ice will be gone in 5 years. Gillian is trying to find a cure for a new form of dementia called Losians which has killed her husband and now her daughter has it. The book is going back and forth between then and now. Now she is on a space ship headed for space.

Quote about enemies

Did men have to do that, reframe the past into a lie, so they wouldn’t feel guilty about moving on? They had the strength to break things, but not the strength to carry them.

Big fight with Adeline about the house. “She wondered, for the first time in her life, if derangement came about not because you didn’t know what you were doing, but because you knew exactly what you were doing, and you didn’t care.”

Ah, now she knew what divorce really was. Sharing decisions with a person you would run down on the street.