Convicted felons being put through a rigorous physical program, to prepare them for an extended one-way trip to deep space; aware that they will never return to the earth; over time as the isolated prisoner astronauts populate the nearest galaxies they are able to communicate with one another, comparing observations; this communication radioed back to the earth for study & analysis, along with the information gathered from the ships computers. These pioneers of the New Information Age combine the latest scientific advances in exploration with the doggerel which was their common tongue prior to incarceration thus blending the native folklore embedded in terrestrial jargon with direct cutting edge experience & calculations.