Collateral Reach

We travel years to you

Hoping to hear and view

The marvels of your technological advancement

But you’re telling me this is the extent?

Mere melted corpses powering your world?

I’m sure they don’t like being extracted and burned

By inferior beings with no accolades earned

“Wait sir, I don’t think you’ve fully discerned”

“We’re close to a breakthrough in fusion power”

“Like the sun we’ll have endless power, allowing us to tower”

“Past our potential and then scour”

“The universe, like you, and maybe empower”

“Future generations to leave and be prouder”

“Of being human”

What is this fusion you boast?

“We use power to compress materials to their utmost”

“Fusing particles to change them and then note”

“The power expelled is greater than put in”

“I’m sorry, I can’t help but grin”

“This is when humanity’s greatness begins”

Oh, you mean like this little power cell?

Here, take it. Maybe you can get out of this narrow shell

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Son, did you not say this planet is advanced and interesting?

Yes, I did. I picked up some primordial signals recurring

I managed to decipher and deblur them

They were waves from the light spectrum…

“You mean radio waves?”

It’s possible, I can’t verify your claims

And I know its probably long finished, with your light-travel constraints

They might all be gone now, But I don’t want to be dark dreary

Can you introduce me to the cast of The Big Bang Theory?