​31 million seconds is a pretty good time for a 940 million kilometre journey, so sit back and feel good about another successful orbit of our nearest star. While 2016 hasn’t always been great for everyone, let us look backwards upon it remembering the good while looking forwards to 2017.

Looking backwards we shall celebrate the great achievements of humanity’s inquisitive nature. This year we discovered actual ripples in the space-time continuum. We used cybernetic implants to allow a man to move his fingers for the first time in 6 years (he played Guitar Hero). We found a way to turn harmful carbon dioxide emissions into rock. We found out that the closest star to us (after the Sun) has an earthlike and very habitable-looking planet. We successfully completed the first vertical rocket landing and found the fossils of a giant 30 foot long crocodile.