that little girl is either gonna grow up to hate other species or she's gonna remember how unbearably obnoxious her brother was and love them for it, one extreme or the other, there will be no middle ground
Reminds me of the setting of Dr. Stone. All of Humanity petrified suddenly while fully aware. Scary shit, and not the kind of existential dread I want leveled on me.
HE... Was never able to go back to earth... Becoming a lifeform between organic and mineral, he wandered for eternity into the endless void known as space.Being unable to die even though he wished for it, He eventually stopped thinking.
Technically, objects in low Earth orbit (like the petrified body in this chapter) will collide with stray atmospheric particles and slow down until they hit atmosphere and burn on re-entry without a mechanism for keeping the altitude.