“They emerged at twenty-three hundred hours and were above sixty major population centers within thirty minutes. For twelve hours they scanned us in ways we don’t even understand.”
“And then they just… left?”
“Yep. Gone.”
“Any theories?”
“We think maybe they were looking for something. And they didn’t find it.”
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Posted by Tim at 2:41 pm on January 1st, 2010.
Categories: Standalones. Tags: 2010, Arthur C. Clarke, extraterrestrial, scan, the year we make contact.
It was New Year’s Eve, and the world was quiet. There were no people banging on pots and pans, no fireworks, no descending balls of light.
The humans peacefully, mysteriously slept.
Arthur C. Clarke predicted contact with extraterrestrial life in the year twenty-ten.
He was wrong by half an hour.
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Posted by Tim at 2:24 pm on December 31st, 2009.
Categories: Standalones. Tags: 2010, alien, Arthur C. Clarke, extraterrestrial.