'23kpc' Chapter 19: Song of the Barcode

...but is a song still a song if no one hears it?

[Who knows what a spacesuit helmet will look like centuries from now? Not me. Maybe they’ll be, I dunno, more head-shaped or something. Form-fitting, even. But I assume there will still be all kinds of twisty knobs and switches, air hoses, and so on. I didn’t ask for all those things in my prompt to the AI image generator, but I did ask for one all-impo…