Remember when we thought we were alone?
And made fun of how Sagan said “billions”?
Then we started pointing our telescopes
At the newly discovered Kepler planets
The transmissions started pouring in:
They offered to save our planet
In exchange for new first run episodes
Of Days of Our Lives
Author notes: The Bruce Springsteen song that gave me the idea and title https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAlDbP4tdqc
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