There’s a computer virus in space now. It’s been confirmed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration after Spaceref reported it. The virus is W32.Gammima.AG. It’s a level 1 — low risk — life form that takes habitat in online game servers, preying on antivirusless players and taking their private information. NASA thinks one of the astronauts brought it with him on a CD or a disk-on-key. They say no critical command and control systems are compromised, just some nutrition systems, whatever that means.

I’ll tell you who doesn’t get nurtured by the nutrition system — an online gaming virus. Poor Gammina.AG. all alone there in space. Nothing to do. No game systems to play with out there in the infinite void. They say the astronauts don’t have an anti-virus software, so they can’t even kill him. I hope some day he can mutate into a flesh-eating virus and come back to Earth, because the image of his loneliness is heart-ripping.