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Why Aliens Haven’t Colonized the Galaxy
When the CAESAR probe collected a sample of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2020 no one expected it would contain a message from the future. The contents were shared with the major intelligence agencies but kept from the general public. We at Medium’s Department of Near Future hacked the NSA’s primary network (password = p@ssword) to bring you the inside story of this astonishing find.
Stardate 27301.4. Second Officer’s Personal Log
OK, so I don’t know if this will work.
I’m going to use the Deus Ex Machina drive to send this log as far back in time as possible in the hope that someone, someday, will find it. I’m hoping they’ll learn the lessons we failed to learn.
If the DEM drive works, we won’t have died in vain.
We left the Lagrange Point L1 on stardate 27208.01.
By the way, if anyone back there knows why we took to calling it stardate, I’d love to know. Makes no sense to me.
Anyhow, we were the last of the colony ships. We’d royally f*cked the planet Earth centuries earlier and all the trillionaires were competing to build the greatest, the best, extra-terrestrial panic rooms. Mars was the obvious first destination but after a century it was like Coney Island: so crowded that nobody went there anymore.
