Coordinates: 14h 29m 42.9487s, −62° 40′ 46.141″
Proxima Centauri (Latin proxima: meaning "next to" or "nearest to") is a red dwarf star about 4.2 light-years (4.0×1013 km) distant in the constellation of Centaurus. It was discovered in 1915 by Robert Innes, the Director of the Union Observatory in South Africa, and is the nearest known star to the Sun, although it is too faint to be seen with the naked eye. Its distance to the second- and third-nearest stars, which form the bright binary Alpha Centauri, is 0.237 ± 0.011 ly (15,000 ± 700 astronomical units [AU]). Proxima Centauri may be part of a triple star system with Alpha Centauri A and B.
Because of the proximity of this star, its angular diameter can be measured directly, yielding a diameter one-seventh that of the Sun. Proxima Centauri's mass is about an eighth of the Sun's, and its average density is about 40 times that of the Sun. Although it has a very low average luminosity, Proxima is a flare star that undergoes random dramatic increases in brightness because of magnetic activity. The star's magnetic field is created by convection throughout the stellar body, and the resulting flare activity generates a total X-ray emission similar to that produced by the Sun. The mixing of the fuel at Proxima Centauri's core through convection and the star's relatively low energy production rate suggest that it will be a main-sequence star for another four trillion years, or nearly 300 times the current age of the universe.
Eduard Punset i Casals (Catalan pronunciation: [əðuˈart punˈsɛt], born in Barcelona, Spain, 9 November 1936) is a Catalan Spanish lawyer, economist, and scientific popularizer. He holds a degree in Law from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a Master's in Economic Sciences from the University of London. He has been an economic writer for the BBC, economics director of the Latin American edition of the newsweekly The Economist, and an economist for the International Monetary Fund in the United States and Haiti. As a specialist on the impact of emerging technologies, Punset has been a consultant to COTEC, Advising Professor of International Marketing at ESADE, president of the Instituto Tecnológico Bull, Professor of Innovation and Technology at the IE Business School (formerly Instituto de Empresa) in Madrid, President of Enher, Deputy General Director of Economic and Financial Studies at the Banco Hispanoamericano, and Coordinator of the Strategic Plan for the Information Society in Catalonia.
A devastated homeland
The planet laid to waste
The lack of every hope
No future we foresee
Life on Earth is doomed
Intoxicated, burned
Radiations are the legacy
Inheritance is death
A long travel for the chosen ones
Humanity's last hope
A seed thrown into darkness
Waiting for a new light to come
Lost in the folds of universe
Escaping from extintion
Castaways
Running through the corridors of time
Looking for a new start
Far away
Proxima is approaching
After this long run
Hybernated for a century
We dreamt of a new life
But all we find is our roots
Under a dead sky
After killing Proxima
We left for a new hope
See the fate of Atlantis
We've been punished twice
For spoiling our homeland
And forgetting our sins
This time we're not going to forget
From where we came
And what we are
Our lost dead cradle we must leave
From infinite we came
T-minus, 10 seconds to counting
10 seconds to counting
T-minus, 10 seconds to counting
10 seconds to go
T-minus, 10 seconds to counting
Metronome charisma
Keeping time in sling shot tempo
M-M-Metronome charisma
Keeping time in sling shot tempo
M-M-M-Metronome charisma
Keeping time in sling shot tempo
Metronome charisma
Utopia the landfill crawls
Omens that back the truth
Omens that back the truth
Erase the veins of this dateline
As it tells the story of this roman fracture
Space time cliche
I can't believe, the feeble recipe
Civilization tastes so good
Nero has conquered the stars
No one ever saw the spacesuit togas
Wreath around the head like Saturn's rings
Stole your recipe
Ghost ship cemetery
We won't lie
T-minus, 10 seconds to counting
10 seconds to go
T minus
Utopia the landfill crawls
Omens that back the truth
Omens that back the truth
Erase the veins of this dateline
As it tells the story of this roman fracture
Space time cliche
I can't believe, [Incomprehensible]
Under the breath, under the fall
Caligula time warp
Decadence in fleets come rain storming
Under threats of gluttony and lies
Stole your recipe
Ghost ship cemetery
[Music: Aphazel - Lyrics: GroM]
by foreign shores we tread our way
no clue of what's beyond
a lurking threat unknown to man
an ancient force of prey
through time and space we travel on
our curious natures grow
an evil dark and frightening place
where no man should dare to go
ave aquevale for the neptune towers subside
we unlock doors unprepared
to face the horrors far beyond
as feeble speaks of dust
we boldly linger on and on
our souls will burn with flames so high
and vanquished we will be
for we are merely strangers
in this void of misery
cruched and butchered drained and slayed
our souls forever scream
engulfed and severed, tortured and maimed
with no hope to be free
anghuishly crying no able of dying
a curse no one can tell
forever standed and abandoned
our souls will burn in hell
liberate tute meex infernis
we hear our cries we know our lies
the punishment is due
beware and fear that which is near
and face the world's demise demise
so far yet close this hidden evil
a scythe reaping souls
a breading unportrayable death
will swallow all mankind
we have not seen the face of death
and hell is just a word
the truth is far much worse and vile
our existence too absurd
the fatal verge of no return
now breached beyond restraint
how many times must our souls cry
before we finally learn
we face what power is out of reach
until we crash and burn
a warning's given us
remain on our home soil
for furious proxima centauri
will shred this mortal coil
shred this coil