William A. Jackson

The Tenth Planet

Those Silent Screams You Hear May Just Be Your Own Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say…or so they say. However, there are dozens, if not hundreds, of advanced civilizations peppered throughout the Milky Way Galaxy itself, not to mention the goings on within the millions of galaxies that are scattered throughout the universe. And yes, we, the more advanced civilizations, do hear the screams of those civilizations that are teetering on the brink of extinction, despite the fact that several of those waning civilizations are, as of yet, not aware that they are screaming, or ought to be screaming due to the dire circumstances in which they presently find themselves. And due to the fact that several of those waning civilizations are ostensibly clueless with regard to their imminent demise, there are those more advanced civilizations that pity them, effectively writing them off. There are also those advanced civilizations that ignore them as a matter of course because in the lion’s share of those cases, there were steps early on that these waning bstars could have taken to avoid their present existential dilemma. Yet, time and time again, those common-sense measures were ridiculed as being unnecessary, or wasteful, or too expensive, or too simple, or not coming from someone with the right skin hue or sex organs.