The radios have been down for weeks, hacked by terrorists according to some but what kind of terrorist group broadcasts in blips and beeps that translate into binary? More importantly, why isn't their source being mentioned anywhere other than as a one-off minor article?
It's like they don't want everyone realising what a big deal this is - we are being sent messages from a neighbouring planet just outside our solar system! Granted the messages look like gibberish to us but we don't exactly have a Rosetta Stone for whatever they call their language.
It's one of those excitingly terrifying things where you desperately want it to be true but you dread the implications if it is. I mean we aren't alone but also we aren't alone, you know? We know about as much of them as we do colossal squid, which is to say we know they exist but damned if we know more.
A part of me wonders if the messages are saying how well the invasion has gone and how perfectly they all blend in, inviting the rest of their people to join them until there aren't any human left alive. We wouldn't even notice until it's too late to do anything more than cause a skirmish at best.
Either way, the messages are getting louder and longer and closer so we'll find out in a matter of days.
It's like they don't want everyone realising what a big deal this is - we are being sent messages from a neighbouring planet just outside our solar system! Granted the messages look like gibberish to us but we don't exactly have a Rosetta Stone for whatever they call their language.
It's one of those excitingly terrifying things where you desperately want it to be true but you dread the implications if it is. I mean we aren't alone but also we aren't alone, you know? We know about as much of them as we do colossal squid, which is to say we know they exist but damned if we know more.
A part of me wonders if the messages are saying how well the invasion has gone and how perfectly they all blend in, inviting the rest of their people to join them until there aren't any human left alive. We wouldn't even notice until it's too late to do anything more than cause a skirmish at best.
Either way, the messages are getting louder and longer and closer so we'll find out in a matter of days.
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