Well, that’s just like, just like StarTrek.
Everybody speaks English very well.
Sometimes they have accents, but...
We think we know how we came to be here on
our world.
We’ve studied this.
How did you come to be?
What are you doing here?
We’ve worked for millennia—or many, many
orbits of the sun—to reach this level.
We believe that we came to be about a hundred
thousand orbits ago and that life itself started
on our world about three billion orbits ago.
When did life start on your world?
And let me say, that’s a nice hat.
And then he or she would say, “It’s my
helmet, it’s my space helmet, because your
atmosphere is just—it’s no good for me.”
And so on . . .
I’d want to know where they came from.
I’d want to know why they wanted—what
were they doing asking me what I was doing?
It would be great to know, though, we’re
not alone.
That would be a heck of a thing.
It would change the world.
