One currently-unnamed transition metal may rewrite the periodic table, last updated in 2114. This particular metal, when included in our premier structural alloy, should result in a new proprietary metal that's 35% stronger yet 16% lighter than our current solution. These findings could be a boon in residential housing and civil engineering projects throughout the known worlds.
Our outpost has grown vast during the last three years, two of which I've been locally stationed. When I first saw Site #558C, there were a only few hundred, nondescript Habi-pods and our company's InterStar-Mobile™ lab structures. When there's potential for profits, our company will surely find the necessary funds for promising new ventures.
I snapped this image as I was wearing an Apple iFreckle skin patch on Friday. It was taken through our mining rover's visual portal. (It's surely more impressive in iVistaView on a 3DVS.)
I shared this image on the galactinet yesterday. As soon as it reached earth's Gverse Terrestial Central, my six-year-old nephew cued up an InstaVid asking for more about my location. It seems as if he is now old enough to have started taking a keen interest in what his uncle is doing. Jamal knew the name Uusimc but he wanted to know the name of the planet.
As I have explained to friends back home, technically this mining operation is on an asteroid with a trajectory that brings us closest to Earth every sixteen years. It is currently only known by a universal space identification resource number.
We tried to ask what the hairless, local, burrowing mammal-like creatures called this place. They have a form of communication that our translation systems can decipher. They kept using a noise that means the same as their word for "land". It cannot be written with Latin letters and sort of sounds like the noise of an Earth dog's toy. However, in the grand tradition of colonists, we will undoubtedly rename this place for a location in the old worlds.