futurology | video; username: 82736775

[The video is carefully cropped so 82736775's face isn't visible, focused at chest-level. A chest that is clothed in a nebulously green fabric, incidentally (it's a dinosaur kigurumi).]

Hey, what up. So a-a-apparently nobody else is sick of sitting around and waiting for fake impossible "magic answers" to land in our lap with respect to our job. Remember that thing we're supposed to be doing? About the freakin' endless darkness plaguing this world? Yeah.

[His hands come into frame, holding a beat-up metal tube with a bunch of science-looking shit stuck to it, like some lights and buttons and stuff. Maybe there are some exposed wires but don't pay any attention to that.]

This... is a telescope. I'm showing it to you in case you come from a world where they're called something dumb. Like a sky-tube or something, I dunno. Just trying to mitigate stuUUuuurr-- stupid questions.

I have an ass-load of these things and I can make more. If you're wondering how, the answer is I'm a genius. [He lowers the telescope.] They're all hooked up to my, uh... something I have; th-th-that -- that's not important. The point is, I need volunteers to take these things out to the highest vantage points around, aim them at the sky, and take readings.

[One finger goes up.] First, if you don't know how to look through one end of a thing and listen for beeps, you're too stupid to use these so don't even ask. Go hit some shit with rocks, that's pr-probably more your speed.

[A second finger goes up.] Don't use them to be peeping toms. This is science, not an excuse to be a gross purrrrr-- perv.

[A third finger goes up.] This all needs to be at the same time. In a few days, the sky should be clear enough for a decent reading across the b-- urrrp -- board.

Serious inquiries only. I'm not here to dick around. Name a place and I'll drop off the machine.

[The hand throws up the sign of the horns before the video ends.] I'm out.

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W-well, the sun has to be there. Obviously. [They'd be careening out of orbit without its gravitational pull, anyway.] What's making it dark is the real question.

Edited (grammar) 2016-01-06 18:02 (UTC)

Obviously. [He affirms.] Perhaps it's some kind of prolonged eclipse, of some sort?

We'd see a corona if that was it. But we don't know what kind of sun this planet has, so it might be too dim for the naked eye. Soooo, telescopes.

Makes sense.

[He smirks.]

Well, if you discover a new phenomenon, I bet it would be a field day for you. You'd probably be able to name it after yourself, too.

There's nothing "new" anywhere in the universe. Somebody's already discovered everything. [Well, mostly everything. He sort of has the market cornered on a recipe for dark matter, as far as he knows.] Anyway, I'm not a narcissist. Naming shit after myself isn't my style.

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