"And millions of years later, after the Earth had long since gone quiet, the strange metal object swung closer to the red planet.
After all these years, passing the red planet so many times, it had caught enough wisps of gas from its atmosphere that it was going to finally come to rest — finally land there at last.
If landing is what you want to call it.
Down the machine came. It arced across the sky — slowing much more quickly now. And as it slowed it fell closer to the surface still, and got hotter and slower still...
When it finally hit the dunes of this world it scattered into all of its components. For miles and miles so many small metal and plastic parts from Earth flew and tumbled. And also, some stowaways.
What stowaways? Why, little organized corpuscles of organic chemicals. They were plentiful at one time on their home planet of Earth. But now, millions of years later, they found they had been travelers to a strange, new world.
Let there be life!"
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Poorly channeling "The Last Question" in a way....
After all these years, passing the red planet so many times, it had caught enough wisps of gas from its atmosphere that it was going to finally come to rest — finally land there at last.
If landing is what you want to call it.
Down the machine came. It arced across the sky — slowing much more quickly now. And as it slowed it fell closer to the surface still, and got hotter and slower still...
When it finally hit the dunes of this world it scattered into all of its components. For miles and miles so many small metal and plastic parts from Earth flew and tumbled. And also, some stowaways.
What stowaways? Why, little organized corpuscles of organic chemicals. They were plentiful at one time on their home planet of Earth. But now, millions of years later, they found they had been travelers to a strange, new world.
Let there be life!"
:
Poorly channeling "The Last Question" in a way....