Um, nothing much
when on today. Seizures were down. Can't just say I wrote again. Um,
gotta come up with some news...I ATE BURRITOS FOR DINNER IT WAS
MAGNIFICENT!!! DELICIOUS!!! NOW ONTO THE FLASH FICTION!
Our
Intentions
Dear Sir(s)
and/or Madam(s),
Good day! My
name is General Geralgurgaralxyi and I am one of the generals for the
aliens who have come to your planet. I know you've probably already
heard about us on your television, radio, or on the Internet or from
friends, coworkers, or other individuals. Depending on where you live
you may be able to look outside and see our ships in the sky or seen
the ones that have already landed. Now, I know there are nasty rumors
all over your planet about our intentions on your world, so I have
sent out this message all over the world in email, over the phone
through messages, in physical letters, broadcast on television and
radio and on the Internet in every language on the planet through our
various language interpretation devices to clear up our intentions. I
want all of humanity to know upfront exactly what we are here for to
clear up any misunderstandings.
First off I
must say I am stricken with great grief. When we arrived on your
planet your world's armies misunderstood our intentions and attacked
us. Understandable considering that once we observed your media your
cultures have pondered the possibility of unfriendly aliens for a
long time and our ships are equipped with weapons to defend
ourselves. There was great loss of life of your peoples in our work
to defend ourselves and subdue them. I mourn for their loss. It is
fortunate now though that all your world's armies are crippled and
without any hope for resistance no further loss of life is necessary.
Our reasons for
coming to your planet are all peaceful. We do not plan to enslave you
as many of you have said we would. One of our primary purposes is
actually to study your world, its life, technology, culture and
history; a peaceful notion that many of you already understand. The
only work your people will have to do is give all your scientific
data to us and assist us in our research as we demand. We will only
arrest the scientists and scholars that refuse to cooperate and
execute the ones that do not aid in the end after we attempt to
persuade them on our ships.
Many of you
said that we have come to steal your resources. We don't plan to take
any of your raw materials. We don't even intend to take food from
you. We will actually be turning some of your deserts into farmlands
for us with our climate changing technology. The only the thing we
intend to take is your children. Whenever we visit a planet we take
the most promising children and take them in as our students and
bring them to our own world. They will be taught and raised well of
course so there is no need to worry. Any resistance will result in
arrest and further persuasion on our ships and execution after that
if cooperation is not achieved.
We come bearing
many gifts. We have brought much technology for you. But no weapons
as we do not think that your people should have such weapons of war
to hurt yourself with. But now you will have our medical technology
and other devices to make your life easier. All you have to do is
register your DNA signature and accept internal tracking devices at
our hospitals and we can give you access to our medical services. We
also bring you clean energy and will be building you new homes and
cars and technology all run by our cleanly powered energy and
monitored 24/7 by our computers.
We have also
brought you the gift of our culture. We have brought the movies,
music, art and books, games and other cultural aspects of our world
to yours! With the gift of our culture we can remove any of your
offending culture from being displayed so that both of cultures can
become one nice, peaceful super-culture. Doesn't that sound perfect?
So those are
intentions. Don't you see that you can put all your fears to rest? We
are a peaceful race and intend to make our stay on your planet a
peaceful one.
Now I must
mention that our species does carry a bacteria that can infect some
species such as yourself though it is harmless to us. It can lead to
a rather painful disease that causes paralysis and incredible pain in
the victims for the remainder of their life. Unfortunately we have no
cure as of this date. Though it is guaranteed that it will only
infect a very small portion of your race. We will be sending our
doctors and officers over the next couple of months to check for
infected individuals as it takes a year for the symptoms of infection
to surface. They will remove of infected individuals to spare them of
later pain and chance of infecting others.
Have a nice
day.
Sincerely,
General
Geralgurgaralxyi
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Author Comment:
While the last bit of this story about the incurable bacteria thingie
I was reminded of something I came up with in biology class in a
College course I was taking. Since I can't figure out a way to work
it into a story(Besides a plot device) I thought I'd share it in this comment.
We were
covering viruses and we were covering the fact that viruses use the
surface of the cell to determine which cells to lock onto and insert
their genetic material. (A virus that infects an immune cell has
different things to “lock on” on its surface so it doesn't attach
onto a red blood cell) So I thought what if we genetically engineered
cells to “look” like certain cells on their surfaces but their
insides they don't have the same materials that the virus needs to
reproduce. Like lets say we have a virus that infects red blood
cells. We genetically engineer a bunch of cells that on the outside
have the same kind or at least similar proteins and other molecules
and such so that the virus recognizes as a red blood cell and will
attack it. But on the inside it's different and the genetic material
will effectively hit a dead end.
Now some viruses will still attack
the red blood cells but eventually more and more will attack the
fakes that they'll be reduced to manageable levels. Our fake cells
are produced by us so we will be putting these into the body, so
they'll probably clear out naturally, and perhaps if we're able we
can make it so that it look similar enough to trick the virus but
different enough so that our immune system can take out the trash.
After all they are by definition foreign and our immune system is
good at detecting foreign things while viruses attack pretty much any
cell no matter the host. Or maybe they can just lay dormant or
something. By the way I call them red herring cells off of the
distraction suspect in a murder mystery.
I don't know if
this would work but it would be awesome if it did because the
principles can be applied to pretty much any virus and could cure so
many diseases and such. I wonder if anybody else has come up with
this. I dunno.
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