Mastodawn

Humanity’s first interstellar probe touched down on a feather, at precisely the coordinates the message had said. The answer, it claimed - though it did not use the same words - to the Fermi paradox. Why are there no spacefaring civilisations? What is the Great Filter that prevents species progressing to the stars?
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Not The LBC Guy

Hungrily the probe swivelled its camera, seeking answers to send the tens of light years back to Earth. What could this vital message for humanity’s survival hold?
Finally a plaque, corroded by the acidic atmosphere but still readable, fell into focus. Decoding it as the aliens had taught us, the probe sent its warning back to an Earth that had sadly run out of time and gone silent years before.
“We burned our biosphere to yassify Lara Croft. Don’t make the same mistake”
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