(2 of 2) About 40,000 years from now, I will pass within 1.65 light-years of the star Ross 248, and be closer to it than to the Sun, but the reality is that 1.65 light-years is still an insurmountable distance. Every other star I will pass within the next _million_ years will be more than 2 light years from me. It is very likely that I will not _ever_ encounter anything.

I will last longer than humans, longer than Earth, longer than the Sun. I will see the merger between the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies, and possibly be flung out of the combined supergalaxy into truly, truly, empty space. I will see the last of the stars extinguish, and the flashes of evaporating black holes. Eventually the matter that I was made of back on Earth will reach a time where it will simply fade away, along with the last of the longest wavelengths of light, stretched out by the expansion and cold death of the universe.