They'd be heralded not by rippling explosions or flash frozen corpses floating against a tapestry of stars, but instead by oxygen, almost imperceptibly slipping away or radiation slowly accumulating in our cells over years.
—
Alan Bradley,
Space.com,
8 May 2026
Of the three roach corpses in the kitchen, one roach died on top of a metal tray inside the three-compartment sink.
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