ET: Of class nosotros take away heed you. Papa Oumuamua (wiki) speaking. But nosotros don't empathise you. In fact, this fact makes it puzzling how nosotros could respond your inquiry at all. Do you lot speak Russian?
Milner: Yes, I do. Privět. Are you lot extraterrestrial?
ET: What practise you lot think? If nosotros weren't extraterrestrial, nosotros would telephone telephone you lot on that annoying circular stone of yours as well as nosotros wouldn't take away 3 minutes for the respond to become dorsum as well as forth.
Milner: Mother Russian Federation is no annoying circular rock. Have nosotros e'er met each other?
ET: We haven't met inward soul but nosotros know who you lot are. You're the guy who wants to mail the $100 1000000 kite to bombard our friends at Alpha Centauri, right?
Milner: Yes, that's me, Yuri Milner inward person. Do you lot know how I figured out your object is a production of an extraterrestrial industry?
ET: No, honestly, nosotros receive got no idea. We deliberately picked an object that is equally natural equally possible – a frozen jet from a natural volcano, 10-to-1 aspect ratio, length of 400 meters, speed nigh 0.1% of the speed of light. The cigar is total of gilt which you lot should naturally similar as well as in that place are QR codes for Satoshi Nakamoto's payment of 1 1000000 Bitcoins on the surface. Did something betray us?
Milner: I receive got watched the Space Odyssey. All long cosmic objects must either last spaceships or prefabricated junk thrown out of spaceships, peculiarly because I don't desire my SETI projects to expect unsuccessful.
ET: I see, nosotros didn't know that. OK, then, you lot were right, but it was a coincidence. Do you lot know why we're flight to Earth?
Milner: Are you lot flight to Earth? I sentiment you lot were exactly watching us from a distance.
ET: Of class nosotros are. Our cigar-shaped spaceship was designed to perform a gravitational slingshot exactly about the Sun, which you lot must receive got institute suspicious. We volition split upward the spaceship to 2 pieces as well as i of them volition province inward Alabama.
Milner: Why Alabama?
ET: Because nosotros don't desire to let the Democrats to receive got over the Senator's seat. We take away to assist your friend Putin likewise equally Moore alongside the recount.
Milner: Good luck. Where are you lot from? Is it OK to nation that you're from a dissimilar star system?
ET: Yes, of course, we're from a dissimilar star system, exactly expect at our trajectory. But if you lot desire the people to last to a greater extent than excited most your project, tell them that we're from a dissimilar galaxy – because that's fifty-fifty further.
Milner: H5N1 proficient idea, I will. I volition enquire all my friends inward the media to nation that you're from a dissimilar galaxy, Oumuamua.
ET: Why practise you lot telephone telephone us Oumuamua if you're inward West Virginia? It sounds Hawaii, right? Almost similar Waikiki Raga. (The discussion "ou-mua-mua" agency a scout, literally "ReachOut-AsFirst-AsFirst".)
Milner: Because Robert Weryk discovered you lot on Oct 19th yesteryear a Hawaii telescope.
ET: Can you lot delight run out along this telephone telephone telephone confidential?
Milner: Confidential, are you lot joking? I receive got paid $100 1000000 for Breakthrough Listen whose whole betoken is non to last confidential.
ET: If that's so, nosotros volition receive got to modify our plans from a friendly see to Alabama to a non hence friendly see to California.
Milner: I don't actually attention most California but OK, I volition encrypt this telephone telephone telephone as well as run out along it inward the blockchain. That volition run inward security from eavesdropping. You may last certain that no blogger volition leak this telephone telephone today – or ever.
ET: You're hence sweet. We volition tell our friends at Alpha Centauri non to last afraid of your kite. By the way, did you lot notice that the shape of our cigar is somewhat similar?
Milner: Yes, I call upward it's inward fellowship to cut down the friction alongside the interstellar dust, isn't it?
ET: No, nosotros exactly made a long cigar because it tin last created only yesteryear spewing lava from a volcano on a novel low-cal planet. The lava gets frozen inward the vacuum of the outer infinite as well as looks similar a long stick.
Milner: My kite is sparse because it's a result of the intelligent design, a rattling intelligent design. At whatever rate, I am running out of time. See you lot inward Alabama as well as D.C. I volition last at both.
ET: It was prissy to pass an sixty minutes yesteryear talking to you, Yuri.