Ms. Thrace, did you intend to include me on this e-mail chain?

Regardless, this will probably lead to some sort of worldwide epidemic--will civilians be granted superpowers upon contact? Will our intrepid and hapless explorers activate an alien signal beam and bring an extraterrestrial apocalypse down upon this Earth, again? I for one am dreadfully curious.

Or, a novel thought: we could avoid disaster through common sense.

Sincerely,
Flora Poste