:39:01
Whatever it is, it ain't local.
:39:02
Position?
:39:03
I checked interferometry.
Somewhere in Lyra.
:39:06
- Vega?
- Can't be!
:39:08
It's only 26 light years away.
:39:10
- Peak intensity?
- Coming up!
:39:13
Vega.
:39:14
Vega. I scanned it a bunch of times
at Arecibo. It was always negative.
:39:18
Got it!
:39:19
Reading over 100 janskys.
:39:22
Jesus! I can pick it up on my....
:39:27
No!
:40:00
Come on!
:40:03
It's restarting.
:40:06
Wait a minute.
Those are numbers.
:40:08
That was 3, before it was 2.
:40:11
Base 10 numbers.
Count and see how far we get.
:40:14
One.
:40:21
Seven.
:40:25
Those are primes.
:40:26
2, 3, 5, 7 are all prime numbers.
:40:30
No way that's a natural phenomenon!
:40:32
Let's just calm down
and pull up the star file on Vega.
:40:36
It doesn't make any sense.
The system is too young.
:40:39
It can't have a planetary system...
:40:41
...let alone life
or a technological civilization.
:40:45
Maybe they're not from there,
they're visiting.
:40:47
Spacecraft? This system's full
of debris. It'd get clobbered.
:40:51
Not if they used their
laser blasters and photon torpedoes.
:40:55
- That's not funny.
- How else can we explain it!
:40:58
He's right. If we go public
with this and we're wrong...