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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’