First Contact

An alien communication to intelligent life on Earth

Attention creatures on the third planet from your sun!

Although it’s blindingly improbable, we are a technological civilization located a mere 120 light years from your own system. Despite the fact it’s a hell of a boring road trip, our lives are of sufficient duration that it’s a feasible distance for us to travel, albeit we’ve finished all the entertainment units we brought with us.

Turns out space is a great place for binge-watching because, frankly, there’s fuck all else to do.

And yes, we are fully aware that we’ve missed out on centuries of additional entertainments. We’re renaming our vessel No Spoiler Alert for the return trip. We’ve also sent out an advance order for refreshments & edibles. About 400 years’ worth, in fact.

But that’s not what we want to communicate to you today. No, we have a message of far greater importance:

You have demonstrated sufficient intelligence to be worthy of our attention!

Yes, this should be a proud day! We’ve been observing your planet occasionally over the last 20 million of your solar cycles and finally evolution has by sheer chance caused the emergence of sentient life on your planet.