[ WP ] We get contacted by aliens in English saying that we are the first other life they 've found in the entire universe . They 've been searching for 12 billion years .

Though realtime chat was difficult due to the complexity of our languages, our top researchers had n't slept for nearly a week to get the greatest supercomputers for stream language work to allow real-time communication. 
 
 As the first communications fell in, the message read as follows: 
 
 `` Hello'Earth'. We are a people like yours, citizens of your universe. May we land?'' 
 
 The debate stewed within the world government and they all agreed that, in spite of the danger, they likely had the capability to land *regardless* of what we wanted, so the least we could do was to throw out a welcome mat. 
 
 As their ship landed in Central Park, the decided upon best-impression of humankind, a single figure emerged. 
 
 `` Hello. Do not be alarmed, I have changed my form to fit your culture better. I have a message.'' 
 
 The sleek figure was almost a caricature of a human. More than six feet tall, incredibly fit, but with an anime-style head. The incredibly disconcerting alien began to speak. 
 
 `` We have been searching for sentient life for more than... 12 billion of your years, though it was an instant for our species. Either we are both before the final end, or we are both past it. In either case, we must prepare.'' 
 
 `` Prepare for what?'' asked the scientist at the head of the project, quaking in his boots. 
 
 `` To prepare for what happens after the end, of course.'' 
 
 ________ 
 
 After decades of deliberation, we know that it was n't a mistranslation. The universe has entered entropy, though we may never see the other side. We've done our best to send our history through, but we have no idea how effective it'll be. See us on the flip-side.
