Life in the Outer Space

Robert was once again late to the work today. He went up to his cubicle just like the way he did all these seven years careless and lazy, forcefully pulling himself up close to his monitor.
His job was simple, all he had to do daily was to come to the top tower of the space research center and look out for any clue of life from the outer space. The research center had launched different self powered and propelled satellites which radiates signals in search of life in the outer space. Robert had to make sure these different satellites work in sync with their target rates and then had to mine the abundant data that devices transmits back.

But the problem really was, these satellites and the data mining systems were so damn awesome that they never used to err on their job.Simply put satellites were always up to the task and didn't need much of Robert's intervention.Sophisticated computer programs written to manage data mining were so clever that, with their machine learning  abilities they used do to all the data analysis and reduce Robert's work to taking mere printouts at the end.


Initially Robert used to love all this setup. He was happy to be around these clever machines. But now he had started to hate these machines as he felt they were making him less and less relevant in the entire eco system.

 He walked to collect the daily printout. As he glanced on it, he couldn't help himself noticing a tiny dark circle which was indeed a deviation from the normal mundane printouts. He stared at the computer machines which were also seem to have noticed this change and were working at their full speed trying to solve the mystery around the circle.


 After all he had worked seven years in research wing and he knew something is making this day interesting unlike others. He knew circle of that dense, if it is not for a technical glitch in these computers must be an indicator of some sort of life. He felt a sudden rush of  fluridnie all over his body and the minutes later he was staring into first signs of planet housing Life out in the space in those computer screens.

 Robert decided to try out sending a  message to this new planet and sent "Azzcsx ajhsaad sa" and to which he also got a reply as
 "This is NASA from Planet Earth. Its nice to finally meet our neighbors :)". 

Robert had no clue what the message meant but he certainly liked ":)" part of it.
After all, Robert was not a human being to understand that ":)" actually stands for smiley and hell in his planet there was nothing like Smiling.