"Midnight Sky" tells the story of a scientist living alone in a research outpost in the far North who is one of the only people to survive a global catastrophe that killed most of the planet's inhabitants.  As a result of the catastrophe (whose precise nature is never fully explained), the planet's air is toxic and unbreathable.  No one will live above ground again.

    One day, however, he hears from a spaceship, Aether, on its way from Jupiter back to earth.  He tells them to go back to Jupiter's inhabitable moon.

     

    At this point, only two crew members, a man and woman, are still on the ship.  She's pregnant.  What to do?

    

    They turn back to Jupiter.

    

    On this New Year's Eve, on a day in which many of us reflect on the year that is almost finished and ponder what lies ahead, and wonder, sometimes with optimism, sometimes with trembling, what the New Year will bring, it's a question worth thinking about:  how much are we wiling to trust the unknown?

    

    Put another way, what are we most willing to trust:  where we know we've been or where we do not know we're going--but must go anyway?

    Happy New Year!