THIRTY-SIX YEARS AGO, AN IRREVERSIBLE, ARDUOUS AND painstaking process was set to motion. On September 5, 1977, NASA launched a space probe by the name Voyager I. This probe was instigated with the...

WHEN I TURN AROUND, I SEE YOU ARE STILL WHERE I HAD SEEN you the last time, with your legs ankle-deep into the water. You seem to be unmoving, placid, as if rooted to the spot. The stream is still,...