I wanted to try something a bit different, aside from comics or the antics of little penguins so here is THIS: mostly a shading and background experiment. Plus the astronomy nerd in me wanted to come out. So I obliged and this resulted.

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Voyager 1 was thrust into space by NASA on September 5th, 1977. It arrived at Jupiter in 1979. Later it passed Saturn in 1980. Then using the gravitational orbit of the famously ringed planet, the space probe was flung out of our solar system and to this day drifts endlessly into the outer depths of space. It's true that there are many space probes in the same story, but Voyager 1 is the farthest of them all, therefore the farthest man made object ever from Earth. In fact it's estimated that probe's not going to be anywhere near any celestial body until about 40,000 years, when it'll reach our neighbor stars. And even after that who knows how long it will be until it approaches something new? Our own solar system could one day have aged and ceased to exist, and this machine will still be drifting into deep space. Maybe someday, billions of years from now, so far away from us that we may have lost track of it if humans still live, the Voyager will come across an alien world. It's chances of this are infinitely smaller then discovering a message in a bottle, but there's still a small chance, even if it is the smallest of them all.

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The romanticized thoughts of an overzealous nerd. But yes, back when I was a kid I actually wanted to be an astronomer more so then an artist. Anyway, this was supposed to be a drawing of the space probe orbiting Jupiter (hence the cloud colors and the four Galilean Moons (Io, Europa, Ganymeda and Callisto), but I started drawing silhouettes under the clouds. So you can just imagine what kind of world it is we see here. I mean, it could be Jupiter, but as far as I know it doesn't have Alien Sky Whales swimming around in it's atmosphere. XD

If you're wondering about the name by the way, it's the title of a Beatles Song. Why? Well, resting in the passenger seat on a cosmic joyride is something called a Golden Record. And among many other items on the record, there are a list of songs that were chosen to represent the Earth and it's culture. And while "Here Comes the Sun" was rejected as being written on the record, I thought the song was fitting. Other pieces, however, such as Johnny B. Goode and Beethoven's 5th are currently drifting in the cosmos. Think they'll ever be listened to out there?

THUS ENDS MY SILLY STORY OF COSMIC ADVENTURE.

Sorry guys, I'm SUCH a geek!

This picture (c) Me!
Voyager 1 (c) NASA... though probably is a better choice.