WASHINGTON — A new study released this week has revealed a growing trend in future plans among millenials: falling into the dark, unending recesses of an intergalactic void.

With career options ever-dwindling, millennials are becoming increasingly pessimistic about their futures, and more and more of them feel that being engulfed by the dark recesses of space would be preferential to their current situation.

The study, conducted on American college students by an independent research firm, surveyed 600 students ages 18-24, measuring demographic data, major, career goals, job prospects, general satisfaction, amount of sex they’re having, whether they were a nerd, and a bunch of other factors that we didn’t bother looking at because, my god, it just got depressing after a while.

The most significant finding was the future goals index, which used a variety of methods to answer the question “where do you see yourself in the future?” There were some multiple choice questions with varying options (having a stable job, unemployed and living in Mom’s basement, having a job that you hate but need to keep for money, etc.) along with a space for free response.

A startling number of respondents wrote in some variation of the phrase “falling into intergalactic void” in the free-response section, completely unprompted. The researchers were astounded, and wondered if there may be some kind of genetic wiring that makes millennials pre-programmed to want to be consumed by the vastness of empty space- we wouldn’t be surprised at this point, to be honest. It would certainly explain why one of our writers is so obsessed with astronomy.