No, that was a bit beyond our capabilities. Robotics while, fairly widespread in things like automation, actual robotic life forms that were performing tasks in perhaps a humanoid way? A bit beyond our capabilities, maybe by roughly a decade or so. Sentience would be longer than that.
[ He taps his finger on his hip, he's just thinking but at the question he offers a bit of a shrug. ]
We can't be sure, but let's assume we're just overplanning. If we don't need a plan because they're friendly, then all we've done is prepare for nothing. If they're not, and I'm leaning towards that at the most recent broadcast, then we have to come up with an appropriate plan. Unfortunately whoever they are don't seem interested in talking to me.
[ He's been dying to have that little chat. ]
The morse code message was simply the word 'why' over and over again on a loop. The most recent message is the command to petrify the Earth again, under the hopes that we had the Medusa close enough to the speaker. Fortunately the one we have is out of juice, so it can't achieve that.
Fair enough!
[ He taps his finger on his hip, he's just thinking but at the question he offers a bit of a shrug. ]
We can't be sure, but let's assume we're just overplanning. If we don't need a plan because they're friendly, then all we've done is prepare for nothing. If they're not, and I'm leaning towards that at the most recent broadcast, then we have to come up with an appropriate plan. Unfortunately whoever they are don't seem interested in talking to me.
[ He's been dying to have that little chat. ]
The morse code message was simply the word 'why' over and over again on a loop. The most recent message is the command to petrify the Earth again, under the hopes that we had the Medusa close enough to the speaker. Fortunately the one we have is out of juice, so it can't achieve that.