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[meteorstorm]

Obviously there are other planets that can support it. It doesn't mean these ones can.

[yellowhasthechest]

And all it means to you is that it can't support the same kind of life Earth can. But you are that willing to write off an entire system as dead except for you, just because you can't see anything that looks like something you know.

[Laughing a little.] You guys are so weird.

[meteorstorm]

Can you blame us? We're not capable of sending a human out past much farther than our moon. We only know what we can find with rovers and telescopes.

[yellowhasthechest]

You'll catch up eventually.

[meteorstorm]

Give us another sixty years and maybe. Relatively speaking, our space programs are fairly new.

[yellowhasthechest]

Relatively speaking I think you're pretty new.

[meteorstorm]

Fifty thousand years or so for behavioral modernity.

[yellowhasthechest]

... I can't do that kind of math but yeah, compared to my planet I think you might be new.

[meteorstorm]

Two hundred thousand, give or take, for anatomical modernity. Figuring the planet is about four and a half billion years old . . . we're not by any stretch of the imagination the oldest beings here.

[yellowhasthechest]

Too many numbers, Ryuusei.

[meteorstorm]

Numbers are what we use on this planet. Deal with it.

[yellowhasthechest]

Not all of us got an education. Deal with that.

[meteorstorm]

If you're stealing money, one would hope you have any idea of how much you actually have.

[yellowhasthechest]

Accounting is simple. Trying to convert your years to my years in large amounts so that I have some kind of idea of how old your planet is in my units of measurement isn't.

[meteorstorm]

That's what calculators are for.

[yellowhasthechest]

[Whapping you on the shoulder.]

Do I look like the kind of person who carries a calculator around?

[meteorstorm]

[ pulling his phone out of his pocket and pulling up the calculator thing ]

They're not uncommon.

[yellowhasthechest]

I don't think mine has one.

[meteorstorm]

[ just handing it over ]

[yellowhasthechest]

[Sitting up and taking it, typing away for a long minute.]

Geez, you guys are babies compared to half the universe.

[meteorstorm]

Even we know that much.

[yellowhasthechest]

Well, I needed a benchmark.

[But definitely snooping through your phone, now.]

[meteorstorm]

[ not actually paying that much attention ]

Well there you have it.

[yellowhasthechest]

Mm.

[A few seconds of silence, except for the clicking noises of the phone.] For somebody who only trusts one person you look like you've got a lot of friends.

[meteorstorm]

I said one person here.

[ rolling over and reaching for his phone ]

And that's invasion of privacy.