h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Sure. Time's relative anyway, especially when I'm spending it with relatives

*CYBERHUMAN turns on the TV set up in the corner of the café. He sits watching the TV*

We have a TV? Which channels do we get?

*CYBERHUMAN turns to her*

We've had a TV ever since I brought one in from my spacecraft a few weeks ago and set it up in the corner here. I'm surprised you've never noticed it before. It's a design that was developed on Earth in the early 22nd century, and it gets over 700 different channels, and not only from Earth either. You can get channels from other planets and star systems too. So don't ever complain that you don't have anything good to watch on TV!

*He resumes watching the TV*

Who needs a TV? Frogs don't like TV.

*CYBERHUMAN looks at Mala*

Well if you don't want to watch TV then that's your choice.

Yep.

*Hops off to do something sensible*

*shrug*

We don't really need it here, but when there are no customers I guess I'll be happy to have it.

*CYBERHUMAN sighs and shakes his head wearily*

*CYBERHUMAN wanders around, bored*

Hi, sorry.

Seems like snow is coming. It has this speciall smell outside and the clouds are so strange, too.

*CYBERHUMAN sits down*

In Britain they are experiencing the warmest year on record thanks to the effects of global warming. The average daily temperatures for December in Britain are much higher than they should be, and weather experts are predicting that winters are going to become more like springs in Britain. Some flowers that shouldn't bloom until the spring are starting to bloom in the autumn and winter now. So that's worrying news as far as the climate and the future of planet Earth are concerned.

*CYBERHUMAN smiles*

Don't worry Tav. There are hundreds of planets out in the galaxy that are habitable for humans and other creatures to be found on Earth. So if the planet Earth does become inhabitable in the future, then mankind can just move to a different planet, taking along various animals to use as livestock or to keep mankind company. It'll probably take nearly a whole century to move the population of an entire planet though, so let's hope mankind gets some advanced warning before he has to move planet eh?

You mean so we can destroy another planet?

*CYBERHUMAN laughs*

Quite possibly! I would personally like to see mankind move to a different planet and then encounter some local inhabitants of that planet, so that the question of "Is there intelligent life on other planets?" can finally be answered once and for all.

my My Conversations window doesn't work. I can't see your posts.

Hm, I'm not sure. They certainly wouldn't like it if we'd get there.

*CYBERHUMAN smiles*

Depends if they are friendly or hostile aliens. I've met both kinds on my travels throughout the galaxy.