billion years from now is a gateway—through time, myth and the Universe

This is the home of Jedi Tom — a romantic wanderer, field agent, and accidental philosopher — tracing routes through spaceports, observatories, desert towns, and the strange intersections between cosmic ambition and human absurdity

The portal brings together:

a biography and missions of Jedi Tom

the blog Roadside Picnic — a travel diary blending field notes, lyrical reflections, and humor, capturing the textures of place, people, and their astronomical longing

the Lyra project — sonic traces from before the beginning. A nonlinear archive of dreams, transmissions, and imagined futures surrounding a soul not located in time

a connection to spaceportsfederation.org — an initiative exploring presence, traces, signals, and fantasies around real-world spaceports and observatories

Through bureaucratic practice, site-specific interventions and writing this project contributes to building a future archive: the stories, impressions, and emotional weather surrounding space infrastructure in the early 21st century

The title is borrowed from a future that once delayed itself indefinitely — a nod to the quiet interference of fate and the soft pressure of cosmic bureaucracy