Contact
Written by: the wakeful tree
0300 HRS – Office of Project Vela, SETI – Earth
‘Professor, the deciphering is complete’
‘What does it say?’
‘It’s the same message that we sent them two weeks ago’
‘Impossible, it took you ten hours to decipher a reflection’
‘Professor, I guess it’s a re-transmission’
Professor takes a good look at the message ‘Bullshit, not a single glitch, this is reflection for sure’
‘So what do we do now Professor?’
‘PIA13122 is a dead planet; it doesn’t have any intelligence, stop the transmissions’
‘But, Sir could it be the case of uh…parallel …’
‘Shut up John and just do as I say’
‘Okay Professor’
0300 HRS – Office of Project Via Lactea, SETI – PIA13122
‘Professor, the deciphering is complete’
‘What does it say?’
‘It’s the same message that we sent them two weeks ago’
‘Impossible, it took you ten hours to decipher a reflection’
‘Professor, I guess it’s a re-transmission’
Professor takes a good look at the message ‘Bullshit, not a single glitch, this is reflection for sure’
‘So what do we do now Professor?’
‘Earth is a dead planet; it doesn’t have any intelligence, stop the transmissions’
‘But, Sir could it be the case of uh…parallel …’
‘Shut up Goi and just do as I say’
‘Okay Professor’
LOL oh wow. LOVE this! LOVE stories like this! ET intelligence… or are WE the extraterrestrials after all? And then there’s the case of parallel universes…
Short, sweet, and sci-fi — tickles my fancy anytime
Whoa! loved it
Very smart take on the prompt. We’ve fantasized about sister earth and parallel universe a lot!
Loved the piece. Welcome to the club.