"안녕하세요! [hello]" I said to all of my Korean scientist-workers. I was jumping with elation on my first day at work, in a Korean lab! Personally, I love science, especially working with space. I'm now an astrobiologist, so I was quaking with excitement. I had already met some friends too. Their names were 철수 (Cheol-soo), 필주 (pil-ju), 라히 (ra-hi) and 탑새 (tap-sae).
We were all working together, and since I've been an American living in South Korea for about 5 years now, I think I can speak Korean pretty well.
Cheol-Soo was working on some cave lions he found in a cave somewhere in the land. They're frozen, but he was developing some sort of chemical that could bring them back to life from over 200,000 years ago!
Ra-Hi and I were working on some Carbon Trioxide. Normal experiments, but the ampoule they were stored in made it a bit difficult for me to use it.
Pil-Ju was conducting some experiments with some rats, something about tiredness? I can't remember... anyways.
In the lab, we have a T.V and it only turns on when there is enough anadectic radiation in the sky. The T.V is not for entertainment purposes, but it detects for anadectic radiation in the sky usually to send messages efficiently from one lab to another. When the solar anadectic detection radar detects a higher than average anadectic radiation, the T.V turns on.
At about 08:56, we got a message. The messages are in Nato-Phonetic Alphabet so that we can clearly hear what the person is saying. The message was:
Delta. India. Sierra. Alfa. Sierra. Tango. Echo. Romeo. [pause] India. November. [pause] Romeo. Oscar. Oscar. Mike. [pause] 12.
If you look at the first letter of each word, it spells:
DISASTER IN ROOM 12.
Pil-Ju and I quickly sprinted to Room 12. Guess what we found?
Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
"It happens a lot. I think it was a drill again," Pil-Ju breathed to me in Korean.
RING RING. RING RING. My phone.
"2 missed calls from 이라히 [lee Ra-Hee]"
Oh crap, I thought. Better take this call.
"여부세요?" [hello?]
"오세요!" [Please come!]
beep. Call over.
RUN! RUN! RUN!
When we were in the room, another message was playing. Ra-Hee was writing down the translation of it.
In Korean, it read:
There is no need for evacuation. Be warned. This is not a human transmission. This is an extraterrestrial message transmission. Be warned.
We screamed.
We were all working together, and since I've been an American living in South Korea for about 5 years now, I think I can speak Korean pretty well.
Cheol-Soo was working on some cave lions he found in a cave somewhere in the land. They're frozen, but he was developing some sort of chemical that could bring them back to life from over 200,000 years ago!
Ra-Hi and I were working on some Carbon Trioxide. Normal experiments, but the ampoule they were stored in made it a bit difficult for me to use it.
Pil-Ju was conducting some experiments with some rats, something about tiredness? I can't remember... anyways.
In the lab, we have a T.V and it only turns on when there is enough anadectic radiation in the sky. The T.V is not for entertainment purposes, but it detects for anadectic radiation in the sky usually to send messages efficiently from one lab to another. When the solar anadectic detection radar detects a higher than average anadectic radiation, the T.V turns on.
At about 08:56, we got a message. The messages are in Nato-Phonetic Alphabet so that we can clearly hear what the person is saying. The message was:
Delta. India. Sierra. Alfa. Sierra. Tango. Echo. Romeo. [pause] India. November. [pause] Romeo. Oscar. Oscar. Mike. [pause] 12.
If you look at the first letter of each word, it spells:
DISASTER IN ROOM 12.
Pil-Ju and I quickly sprinted to Room 12. Guess what we found?
Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
"It happens a lot. I think it was a drill again," Pil-Ju breathed to me in Korean.
RING RING. RING RING. My phone.
"2 missed calls from 이라히 [lee Ra-Hee]"
Oh crap, I thought. Better take this call.
"여부세요?" [hello?]
"오세요!" [Please come!]
beep. Call over.
RUN! RUN! RUN!
When we were in the room, another message was playing. Ra-Hee was writing down the translation of it.
In Korean, it read:
There is no need for evacuation. Be warned. This is not a human transmission. This is an extraterrestrial message transmission. Be warned.
We screamed.
