Five-Minute fiction - 23:37-23:42
Inspired by Carl Sagan's Contact.
What? Dan said as he hung suspended in the zero-gravity environment of the engineering bay. Dont look at me like that. Its a viable opinion. How do we know this is going to work? And not just kill us?
Kill us? You think some alien species decided to simply broadcast a message designed to kill us. No, not even that, they broadcast a message containing something for us to build, which would in turn destroy us?
Well, no. I happen to believe that aliens, if
As.
Fine, as weve encountered would be generally benevolent. I dont doubt their engineering. I cant. I mean if they are flying around in space, they have to be capable of some true feats of engineering. We certainly are, and weve only just managed to leave the solar system.
So whats the concern then?
Dan paused. He hung quietly in the air, pondering. Its not so much their schematics, as much as our engineering
Inspired by Carl Sagan's Contact.
What? Dan said as he hung suspended in the zero-gravity environment of the engineering bay. Dont look at me like that. Its a viable opinion. How do we know this is going to work? And not just kill us?
Kill us? You think some alien species decided to simply broadcast a message designed to kill us. No, not even that, they broadcast a message containing something for us to build, which would in turn destroy us?
Well, no. I happen to believe that aliens, if
As.
Fine, as weve encountered would be generally benevolent. I dont doubt their engineering. I cant. I mean if they are flying around in space, they have to be capable of some true feats of engineering. We certainly are, and weve only just managed to leave the solar system.
So whats the concern then?
Dan paused. He hung quietly in the air, pondering. Its not so much their schematics, as much as our engineering