Today would be a big one....
Bruce, the Secretary General of the United Nations of Earth, has spent centuries trying to protect, develop and unite humanity.
When a distinctly non-human arrival seems to offer a way to do this, once and for all, he wi...
When there was a break in the clouds at night, the entities were visible with binoculars now. Joey jostled with his brothers to grab them - he looked up - it was like a manta ray. If manta rays were the size of cities, were translucent and were primarily made of luminescent plasma, that's exactly what they'd look like. It shifted. Actually, now it looked more like a jellyfish. How was it a manta that way and a jellyfish the other way? He uploaded that question to the 3T to see if anyone else had thought about it or had any ideas and carried on sketching with light in the air in front of him trying to capture what he saw. Of course, his memories were all backed up on servers, so he could just watch those if he wanted, but he liked doing things with his hands.
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"Rico," he said tohis brother "you reckon they're smart?" Joey was the least of his brothers, inhis own opinion. While they'd spent the century given to their generation to bethe final children of humanity during Childhood's End getting multiple degrees,hardware upgrades, server space for extra brain power reserved for theirexclusive use and skulls full sentient synthetic symbionts full of specialistknowledge, skills and raw processing power ready for the world of work("they've got centuries of experience, Joey! How are you gonna compete withthat without an education?! Do you even have 1 symbiont in that squishybiodrive up there?!") he'd made the most of being the youngest human child inthe world, about his only notable characteristic. After all, if nobody dies,why not spend a decade or two travelling the beaches of Antarctica gettinghigh? He'd have time to sort it out later, right? But he regretted that itmeant he had to ask his brothers about anything that might need, you know, abit of knowledge to think about. He'd only done 3 degrees. All humanities.Nothing that helped him in thinking whether that thing could be about todestroy the world or not.
"Does it look smart to you?"
"No. It looks like a jellyfish"
All the other brothers chipped in, lending their hyper educated and synthetically enhanced brains to the matter at hand:
"And it's translucent - if it was smart there'd be some kinda brain. Or some kind of internal organ of some kind. Gas can't be smart."
"So how did it make the anomaly if it's not smart? Also it's plasma, not gas."
"We don't actually know that they made the anomalies."
"Bruh, I don't even care about how. I care about why. And why here?"
"Earth and Mars. The only planets with humans, the only planets with anomalies, it has to be about us."
"Dude, your anthropocentricity is sickening."
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