Creative Writing Science Story

The planet had been found by an unmanned survey ship which had entered the Solar System and conducted a wide range of scans for intelligent life. The probe concentrated first on the larger outer planets where life was more likely to have evolved. It conducted a radio wave analysis across the entire band and found no radio wave transmissions. When the probe began its sweep for radio-isotopes, it found vast quantities of enriched uranium on the third planet from the sun. The probe then scanned for the presence of plutonium and received thousands of returns of fissionable quantities of plutonium scattered across the planet.

Approaching the planet, the probe began to take thermal and radar imagery of the surface, as well as X-ray and gamma ray surveys of the substrata. The probe found no indication of carbon based or silicon based life, but clear evidence of the fact that intelligent life lived recently on the planet in the form of buildings, cities, communications systems, power grids, water delivery systems, undergroud excavation, and underground pipelines. As it was programmed to do, the probe notified Darwinia of the discovery.

When the report was received, Darwinia's archaeologists applied for a permit to travel to the planet. They provi

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the archeologists. A site survey has many benefits if performed as a preliminary exercise to, or even in place of, excavation. It requires relatively little time and expense because it does not require processing large volumes of soil to search out artifacts. The simplest survey technique is surface survey. The surface survey provided ample evidence of intelligent life in the search grid consisting of the remains of high rise structures. The archeologists were aware that surface surveys could not detect sites or features that were completely buried. This is where the more sophisticated equipment aboard the survey ship, including ground penetrating radar and infrared imagery, was able to provide detailed information about what was below the sediment covering the survey site. The survey team felt it unnecessary to conduct archeological excavation of the survey site, despite the fact that in other surveys this teachnique revealed information usually not accessible in a survey such as determining the three-dimensional structure of artifacts, their proximity and their use. The cultural anthropologists believed that they could learn more from electronically stored data and documents than they would from the study of artifacts. The
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