earth sent probes.
then rovers.
then somebody made the obvious mistake:
they sent an ape with a phone.
the plan was to build the first colony on mars.
the ape had other plans.
he found a signal.
he opened the chart.
he never looked up again.
humanity reached mars.
the ape reached the buy button.
no mission control. no complicated thesis. no twelve monitors.
just one monkey, one phone, one red planet, and questionable financial decisions.
mars experiment #001:
schrödinger's monkey.
mission control lost visual contact.
the box is closed.
the monkey may be alive.
the monkey may be dead.
the phone is definitely still connected.
alive. dead.
still holding.
don't open the box.
the experiment is still running.
welcome to the colony.
population: whoever is still holding.