Fermi
We first detected the alien craft as it came out of Saturn’s shadow.
It approached slowly, but purposefully, a space-age Santa Maria. World leaders scrambled to be first to contact, with welcome messages drafted, disputed, deleted and finally delivered.
It made no reply, and kept heading toward us.
Wonder started to become fear. Was this not an emissary, but an invasion?
We watched, powerless, as they came closer. Presidents and Prime Ministers stood anxiously in briefing rooms as the ship passed the moon.
It grazed our atmosphere before passing on. Never signalling, never stopping, never noticing we were there.
- Category: General / Misc
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Neil Murton over 9 years ago
The Fermi paradox is to do with why, given everything we know suggests the balance of probability is massively in favour of intelligent life, we've never heard from them. One proposed solution I read recently was that they're out there, but don't think of contacting us much like we wouldn't think of contacting an ants' nest.
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Horrorshow over 9 years ago
Very nicely written, Neil. Love to see people writing Sci-Fi drabbles. :-)
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Neil Murton over 9 years ago
Cheers Horrorshow. I really like this form for sci-fi - feels like more of a challenge somehow.
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Horrorshow over 9 years ago
Challenging indeed! Although I'm a massive fan of Philip K. Dick, I'm not sure I'd even know where to start with a Sci-Fi drabble; although I did mention a flying saucer in one of mine once! Kudos to you, Neil. :-)
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Chris Walker over 9 years ago
Good one :-)
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Neil Murton over 9 years ago
Cheers Chris :)
