The First Contact

by Luinthoron

January 28th, 2012, 16:43 WST
SETI Institute
Mountain View, CA

"We Have a signal!"
"Confirmed!"
"Confirmed!"
"Arecibo keeps listening! Confirms!"
"Definitely extra-terrestrial?"
"Definitely!"
"Bring out the champagne! We have a reason to celebrate!"

January 29th, 2012, 12:02 EST
The White House
Washington, D.C.

"Mr. President?"
"Professor Goldberg?"
"Er... Yes... Well..."
"I hear."
"I'm not good at words, but what I have to say is very important! We had a signal yesterday.
"We?"
"SETI."
"SETI? I thought it didn't even exist anymore."
"That's not the important part - it's coming closer!"
"Are you sure?"
"Absolutely! We have it confirmed by all major observatories, including Arecibo."

February 12th, 2012, 15:53 EST
Diary of prof. Michael Goldberg

"The alien spacecraft has reached the Moon. They're very intelligent and have learned our language. And this only in the past two weeks. They seem to be peaceful and not much different from us."

February 13th, 2012, 01:08 EST
Diary of prof. Michael Goldberg

"Oh my God! This is impossible. I can't believe it! The Chinese, the Russians, Iraq, India, Pakistan... They did it! They attacked the aliens. They started their nuclear bombs. First China, then Russia. And after them, the others. We didn't even know that Iraq had that powerful weapons. But they failed. No harm was done to the visitors. But to us. This is the end of"

February 13th, 2012, 01:11 EST
The World, Planet Earth, or whatever you used to call it

An attack. An explosion. The end of the world.