Nanded, India, water for all, leaving no one behind

Story

Year: 3142 A.D

"Commander! Commander!! I found something! Over," exclaimed Gozo, his voice quivering over the radio as he tentatively walked on the unknown planet, minutely scanning the ground with his sophisticated gadgets.

''Found something? Don't make me laugh! Gozo, listen. We have got to go. I can't take chances in going out of the schedule. Only ten more minutes! Stop wasting time and report immediately to the ship. It's an order. Over," shouted the worried Commander of Space Ship W A T E R F O R A L L.

Exactly After ten minutes, Gozo returned back to the ship a weird, brown thing by his many tentacles and sprouts.

"Did you seriously risk your life for trash? "

"Risk? I would be bit melted by the poisonous gases, that's all. But look at this. This is different. It's a bone."

"Bone?"

"Have you not read history?

"This is exactly like the fossils we have in our Museum"

"You mean the Museum of Authentic Life? Don't be ridiculous!" Commander turned away with a shrug and gave the orders to take off. The countdown started.

"Commander, when you find bones on a planet, that means there were actual living beings in that planet at some point in its history. There were living beings here on this planet. That means there was water here. There still can be!"

Commander slowly turned round. "I am not taking your word that it is a bone. Your gadgets are not reliable. I have to check"

Gozo's gnarled features softened in to a smile.

"Obviously this planet had life on it, Commander. They probably weren't competent enough to live through the apocalypse. Unlike us. We can melt and re-mould. They couldn't. They had bone. They had water in them."

"ABORT!"

No sooner the command was given, the count down stopped. The staff of W A T E R F O R A L L paused at their consoles.

Commander cocked an eye at Gozo. "Analyze your thing. If the reports confirms your theory we will extend our stay here on this planet until we find water"

Report was issued within an hour. It described the Gozo' s find in great detail. It was a bone, all right. A bone of a species the AI of the ship preferred to call Homo sapiens sapiens.

When the report pointed out irrefutable evidence on that this bone consists of 20% water two staff members in the spaceship melted a bit and re-moulded themselves.

After decades of wandering in cosmos, they have at last found the long lost key to their survival; the most basis of fluid that can increase their melting point to 0.0 celsius from minus 150.0 celsius.