[ WP ] `` Before we allow humankind to live among us in the stars , tell us the faults of your kind . ''

`` That's what the computer says they said,'' explained Jane as she examined the print out from the dot matrix printer. 
 
 Tom pushed his horn rimmed glasses back, sat down on the edge of the desk, and said, `` Whoa.'' 
 
 `` How do we communicate with them? I mean, we must have been the first to see the morse code blinking quasar.'' 
 
 Jane shrugged. The computer beeped again. Jane bent over as Tom pretended not to look at her rear, and pressed the record button on the tape drive connected to the university's TRS-80 computer. After a few seconds she hit stop, rewound, and played it back into the computer. Tom bent over and typed in `` RUN'' and they both stared at the screen. 
 
 `` CODE DECODED: SHOW US NOW. BE HONEST.'' 
 
 `` Umm, I sometimes litter,'' said Jane to no one in particular. 
 
 `` I steal sometimes,'' Tom said as Jane made an exaggerated frown. `` People are dishonest, I guess,'' he added with a shrug. 
 
 Jane looked around the room. Tom scratched his chin. 
 
 `` Nothing,'' he said. 
 
 The computer blinked the message again. The green pixelated `` BE HONEST'' text burned into Tom's brain. 
 
 `` I... kinda want to fuck Jane right here over this desk right now.'' 
 
 `` What the fuck, Tom,'' she said turning red. 
 
 `` We need to be honest here!'' 
 
 `` I do n't want Tom to fuck me. I'm sick of his pretentious and know-it-all attitude.'' 
 
 `` Oh arent you miss goody-goody, so you're perfect then?'' 
 
 `` No... I want... more. A job at a better university, tenure, more money, and some fucking recognition in a decent journal for once. I'm never satisfied I guess.'' 
 
 Tom snapped his fingers and grinned. He yelled, `` We're insatiable. We want more. We want to expand and take over. That's our biggest fault! It true. Its fucking true. So... true.'' He stomped his foot, `` More land, more money. More military spending, more nukes, more everything! More every fucking thing! Its never enough!!!'' He noticed his eyes tearing up. Jane also noticed and looked away. 
 
 The computer beeped. Jane pressed the record button and waited. Tom bit his nails. Tom typed `` RUN'' again. 
 
 The screen blinked one final message, `` CODE DECODED: THAT IS THE ONLY INEXCUSABLE TRAIT. GOODBYE.'' 
 
 Jane gasped, `` The quasar is back to blinking normally.'' 
 
 `` I guess they meant it,'' added Tom. `` I uh.. should go home. I'm very embarrassed. I uh..'' 
 
 Jane bit her lip and slowly shut the office door, `` Shut up and take your goddamn pants off. Lets be... human.'' 
 

