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Disaster on Europa
Tom Ball
Well it was difficult to monitor the doing of the scientists at the base on Jupiter’s moon Europa. Their mission had been to bring in simple earth sea creatures and biota and start them going in Europa’s vast sea which existed under the frozen surface of ice.
The scientists there were all first class, each a virtual polymath, but now they had a problem. Genetic engineering was now a very advanced science, and one of the Europan scientists, had created new sea creatures of super-human intelligence. According to UN law, altering intelligence of any creatures including humans was forbidden. However the creatures were now rapidly increasing their numbers, there were thousands of them. They had begun building structures on the seabed and appeared to be able to communicate in an advanced way with each other.
Back on Earth there was a sort of panic, the U.N. was paralyzed for how could they justify allowing such intelligent life to coexist with humans. Observer teams were sent only to find that the new creatures possessed telepathy. And the scientists were forced to conclude that these creatures were more intelligent than any humans who had ever lived.
So it was decided to send thousands of earth’s best scientists to study the phenomenon. Meanwhile the scientist that had created them disappeared and everyone said the UN intelligence organization had taken him away to work on secret programs to make more intelligent life.
As the scientists studied the new creatures, the creatures told them what they thought of humans. They said humans were illogical, selfish and living lives of illusion, among other things. They proved how they were more intelligent and demanded that they at least be put in charge of the government of Europa. So finally the scientists abandoned this moon and left the new creatures alone.
