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Jul. 16th, 2007
So, it turns out there's life on Mars after all. Little greenish-gray kind of well... not really humanoid, unless you're seeing them from behind. They turn around, and the extra arm/leg kinda throws it off.
The reason we couldn't find them before, even with all the probes and crawlers on Mars? Well, those things suck at seeing through a dozen meters of soil and rock. Seems that the Martians took their entire civilization underground centuries ago. As for why they did that...
Well, seems they have some kind of ability to see into the future. Doesn't always work, and yeah, we checked, it's not something humans can do. At least not the same way they do it. It has something to do with the hive-mind or whatever they have. I mean, they say hive-mind isn't the right word, but the right word can't be expressed in any of our languages. We don't have the concept for it. Oh yeah, they can speak pretty much any Earth language. They learn them pretty quickly. They slur the esses a little, but other then that, it's not hard understanding them. Their language? Well, it plays into that whole hive-mind but not really a hive-mind kind of thing.
Anyway, they can sort of see into the future, like I said. And they were able to see how our civilization would evolve. How our societies would change from agrarian to urban, the evolution of how information spreads, all that. And that's why they went underground. You see, being this hive-mind sort of thing, well, oddly enough, they really value certain kinds of privacy. So, to protect themselves from us, they removed every trace of their existence from the surface and moved millions of their people underground.
But their ability to see the future isn't perfect. So when we accidentally stumbled on one of their... well, I guess you'd call it a suburb, it was a bit of a shock to them. Well, to us too. Luckily, no one on either side got hurt. I mean, they're nice little guys, even if I can't stand to watch them eat. And some of the technology they have is amazing.
But they'll only share it with us on one real big condition. We have to modify our societies. We have to value privacy as much as they do. And one part of that means getting rid of all the paparazzi.
The cull begins tomorrow.
The reason we couldn't find them before, even with all the probes and crawlers on Mars? Well, those things suck at seeing through a dozen meters of soil and rock. Seems that the Martians took their entire civilization underground centuries ago. As for why they did that...
Well, seems they have some kind of ability to see into the future. Doesn't always work, and yeah, we checked, it's not something humans can do. At least not the same way they do it. It has something to do with the hive-mind or whatever they have. I mean, they say hive-mind isn't the right word, but the right word can't be expressed in any of our languages. We don't have the concept for it. Oh yeah, they can speak pretty much any Earth language. They learn them pretty quickly. They slur the esses a little, but other then that, it's not hard understanding them. Their language? Well, it plays into that whole hive-mind but not really a hive-mind kind of thing.
Anyway, they can sort of see into the future, like I said. And they were able to see how our civilization would evolve. How our societies would change from agrarian to urban, the evolution of how information spreads, all that. And that's why they went underground. You see, being this hive-mind sort of thing, well, oddly enough, they really value certain kinds of privacy. So, to protect themselves from us, they removed every trace of their existence from the surface and moved millions of their people underground.
But their ability to see the future isn't perfect. So when we accidentally stumbled on one of their... well, I guess you'd call it a suburb, it was a bit of a shock to them. Well, to us too. Luckily, no one on either side got hurt. I mean, they're nice little guys, even if I can't stand to watch them eat. And some of the technology they have is amazing.
But they'll only share it with us on one real big condition. We have to modify our societies. We have to value privacy as much as they do. And one part of that means getting rid of all the paparazzi.
The cull begins tomorrow.