A DISTURBING MESSAGE
I asked him why they didn’t give us the benefit of their technical knowledge and stay with us for a while on our planet, and how long it would take to acquire their technical proficiency. He replied that, in the first place, it was impossible for them to interfere with the evolution of any other planet; that spending any time in our solar system would age them prematurely, and finally that we would never reach their standard of evolution, because the crust of our planet is too different, and in the near future there would be a shifting of the poles.
This would result in a vast opening in the Earth’s crust, bringing about the cataclysmic destruction of 80 per cent of the population, and leaving only a narrow strip of land still inhabitable for the few survivors.