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Narrator: radio telescope reading

Narrator: synchronized output from

Narrator: stellar objects

Narrator: 3DL-Δ and 3DL-Ω

Narrator: message continues

We've zoomed out from our focus on the sun. The sun is now off in the distance, making a funny face and going "Bluh bluh". In the foreground, we now see the crescent moon, wearing wide-brimmed glasses, a brown striped scarf, a newsboy cap with a tiny top hat perched atop it (and with an even tinier bowler hat perched on the top hat), and, most importantly, a frown.

Narrator: 0015 Space was as void as void could be

Narrator: 0016 (though full of quantum foam.)

Narrator: 0017 Not one nebula to see, just

Narrator: 0020 dark matter twixt sky's dome,

Narrator: 0021 Nor ships in hyperspace, sadly --

Narrator: 0022 not one wormhole to roam.

We zoom out further still, and now we see how blotchy and sparse the starfield really is - the extent of the sparsity is labelled "THIS SPACE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK". In the foreground floats a can of shaving cream labelled "quantum! BARBA-SOL 3", and somewhat away from that a blue road sign floats, reading "NEXT WORMHOLE --> 300 LYA". Waaaay off in the distance, we can still see the sun and moon.

Narrator: 0015 Space was as void as void could be

Narrator: 0016 (though full of quantum foam.)

Narrator: 0017 Not one nebula to see, just

Narrator: 0020 dark matter twixt sky's dome,

Narrator: 0021 Nor ships in hyperspace, sadly --

Narrator: 0022 not one wormhole to roam.