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Spacenews.
Alien spacesuit found orbiting #BetaChiarus3. This planet is the
backup choice for the #terraformingproject.
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“Did you see this?”
“Since I'm looking over your shoulder
I think you can assume I did.”
“Pretty cool, huh. A dead alien is
even better than a live one! Don't have to worry about conquering
hordes.”
That's what the talking heads were
saying too. The desiccated corpse inside the suit had been about 3 m
tall when alive. As to why the corpse had been left at Beta
Chiarus, or whether any aliens would come back for it,
there were no facts but plenty of speculation. It had been a solitary
explorer, a would-be mutineer, victim of a successful mutiny, or
something so alien we could never understand it. After the autopsy,
the body was analyzed chemically six ways from Sunday, and shown to
be based on a molecule very similar to DNA. Its proteins were
different from terrestrial proteins but they were proteins.
“So it couldn't have eaten our plants
or our livestock...” began one of an endless parade of
interchangeable "experts".
“or us,” interjected the show's
host, laughing.
Und so weiter.
True enough, as far as it went. But
when the rest of the nine-foot aliens followed our ships home and
began their xenoforming project on Earth the media parrots didn't
seem so smug.
Publ. Daily Cabal 2011
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