In 2042, a NASA probe reaches an exoplanet 112 light-years away. Humanity sees another world's surface for the first time. The mission director weeps. The planet trends worldwide. Meanwhile, on that planet, a civil servant who's been clocking in for 4,721 days pulls up a preset "barren desert" hologram and projects it onto the surface. His supervisor's assessment of Earth's probe: "Two boxes welded to a stick." Genre: Sci-Fi / Black Satire / Cosmic Irony Made with: Seedance 2.0 & Kling 3.0