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First Contact
«First Contact» is never what humanity expects. When an interstellar object enters Earth's orbit, the world braces for invasion or enlightenment—but the truth is far stranger.
Some public interest emerged when velocity, trajectory, and ecliptic plane inclination confirmed "A/2022 U2" as an interstellar visitor.
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Читать ещёГлава 1First ContactThe clatter of the typewriter in the night silence resembled machine-gun fire. Kurt Allen winced. He imagined the sound piercing through the walls, audible in every room of the hotel that had become his refuge this week.The damned thing wasn’t just rattling like a machine gun—it also weighed a good fifteen kilos. Not the most travel-friendly device. He thought of his laptop, thin as a notebook and barely over a kilo... Ah, but his old friend was no longer trustworthy. Alas, alas...The investigative journalism Kurt had undertaken had swiftly eroded his trust in all electronics, especially computers. And if they happened to be internet-connected... God forbid! Run, just run!And run he did. Not the outcome he’d expected when he started this, but who could’ve guessed the rabbit hole ran so deep?For the past two weeks, he’d been transcribing his findings onto paper, to sh…
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