The sphinx
After several months of hard work and countless hours of suspense waiting, finally the first satellite to reach an asteroid and stay in orbit around it accomplished its mission.
The command centre in Virginia burst with joy and everybody started to congratulate each other. The amount of data the satellite was sending was a relief for all the engineers involved in the project.
The main goal now was to entirely map the asteroid as it orbited around, along with a complete breakdown of its composition. This way, a complete 3d model of it could be reproduced on the fly.
The asteroid course did not represent any danger for the Earth, and, furthermore, its diameter was only of 750 meters. According to the path and situation, the most likely origin of the rock was the result of a collision between greater asteroids or probably a detached portion of a direct impact on the surface of a planet with a lack of atmosphere like Mercury.
The data information continued to arrive to the linked systems. Bit by bit, slowly but uninterrupted, the surface was being reproduced in the big displays under the watchful eye of the packed facility. While the scan finished, the composition was already available: it was mostly a carbon rock, nothing special, just like 3 out of 4 asteroids known in the universe.
The outline of the asteroid started to take shape. 49%,..60%...the complete silence of the large room of the command centre gave way to a crescent muttering as the scan completed. The rock rotated in its X and Y axis on the screens like a thrown stone on the air. With 89% of the scan concluded, the evidence was both shocking and absolutely undeniable.
That was not a simple rock. It was a sculpture. The visage of a woman that, in addition, reminded those of the ancient Egypt, specifically the sphinx of Gizeh. The face was so well defined that even the pareidolia phenomenon could not explain it. Summing up, a 750 meters tall sphinx floating amid the outer space.
The discovery not only revealed the existence of other intelligences besides us, but also linked them with our past History.
Now, finding out the origin of the sculpture would be the leitmotif of the scientists. The conclusions could lead the whole mankind to a redefinition of our own existence, but that is another story.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
The asteroid course did not represent any danger for the Earth, and, furthermore, its diameter was only of 750 meters. According to the path and situation, the most likely origin of the rock was the result of a collision between greater asteroids or probably a detached portion of a direct impact on the surface of a planet with a lack of atmosphere like Mercury.
The data information continued to arrive to the linked systems. Bit by bit, slowly but uninterrupted, the surface was being reproduced in the big displays under the watchful eye of the packed facility. While the scan finished, the composition was already available: it was mostly a carbon rock, nothing special, just like 3 out of 4 asteroids known in the universe.
The outline of the asteroid started to take shape. 49%,..60%...the complete silence of the large room of the command centre gave way to a crescent muttering as the scan completed. The rock rotated in its X and Y axis on the screens like a thrown stone on the air. With 89% of the scan concluded, the evidence was both shocking and absolutely undeniable.
That was not a simple rock. It was a sculpture. The visage of a woman that, in addition, reminded those of the ancient Egypt, specifically the sphinx of Gizeh. The face was so well defined that even the pareidolia phenomenon could not explain it. Summing up, a 750 meters tall sphinx floating amid the outer space.
The discovery not only revealed the existence of other intelligences besides us, but also linked them with our past History.
Now, finding out the origin of the sculpture would be the leitmotif of the scientists. The conclusions could lead the whole mankind to a redefinition of our own existence, but that is another story.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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