Friday, 22 October 2010

Choose Your Own Ending

A

After two centuries of searching, Earth’s political leaders finally call time on expensive and controversial efforts to find extra-terrestrial life. It is by now widely agreed that no major sentient species exists within contactable distance. Thoughts of our probable isolation are so eerie and disturbing that globalised civilisation more or less collapses overnight.

B

After three centuries of searching, Earth’s political leaders revel in the success of expensive and controversial efforts to find extra-terrestrial life within contactable distance. Thoughts of our probable vulnerability to attack by this major sentient species are so eerie and disturbing that globalised civilisation more or less collapses overnight.

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