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Icarus was at an impasse.
And what about my life? My children's grandchildren's lives ?
Who gave you the right to decide our fate?
You didn't even ask if we want to fly on your expedition!
What if I don't have kids? So what? Did I ruin your great plan?
Several families flew on the ship in order to reproduce new crew members, thereby replacing the elders
Icarus was different from all the rest.
I'll die some day on this ship without ever learning the most important:
How the expedition ended. Will we make it to Proxima Centauri? Will the ship withstand the burden?
On a ship like this, you can get close to the surface of a black hole, but you can't fly into it.
Trust me, it's gonna work!
Flying around the black hole rim, zipping along its horizon.
soaring over the edge of a gravitational abyss! I can do it, I will do it!
And he could, and he did!
He wanted so badly to share his discovery with someone...