Expedition to Planet Wight

[Lord.MacRae]

Captain: What in the name of Gaia is that? Its a frozen hand right. Oh my ..... Ok fingerprint scan and DNA anlaysation immediately. Then check it with the Sirian inhabitants database!
Chief of Science: Sir, we discovered more bodys under the snow layer, 12 in total.
Captain: I want to know who they are! Get them in the mortuary, autopsy them and tell me the names and the cause of death.

Chief of Science: Captain, we have a match. The Gaian was right, these are the bodies of 3 Cambridge Professors and 9 students ..... what a tragedy.
Captain: Hm, any reasons for their deaths? Accident or Crime? Any evidence for them being killed by Gaians who pretended to protect that fake microbes?
Chief Engineer: I think we found the reason Sir and there are apparently no Gaians involved in that. The reason is a simple snowslide from that mountain over there ... they just have been buried alive .... without any hope ..... but I am no detective Sir. If there had been some kind of force or anaesthetisation prior or if the snowslide was triggered ....
Captain: Please transmit that information to Cambridge University and to BPA. Perhaps they want to do further investigations. Ok, then lets resume the scans with the Galilei again and finish that quick, I want to leave that hostile planet.



*five ours later*
Chief of Science: Captain, scans are completed. We scanned the whole planet, the surface, the planetary crust, a molecular analysis of the snow and ice, every internationally accepted scanning method existant and even some own developments.
Captain: The methods are nothing I want to know anything about Chief. I want to hear the results!
Chief of Scienece: Hm, yes ok Sir. We found no life on that planet. Nothing anymore. No organic tissue and traces of DNA, if there had been some, the vacuum and the temperatures wiped them out again. The only remains of what possibly could have been some kind of ... well .... life ... are these molecules ... but ..... the degradation progressed so far. There is no proof that is was something organic and certainly not alive. Have a look on the data,Sir.

Captain: Thank you Madam Cardinal, then that is it, Miss Johnson prepare for take of, we leave that iceberg!
Helmsmen: Aye captain. *Speaking into her headset* Prepare for lift off in five. Acceleration seats now! 3 ... 2 .... 1 .... here we go!

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