Lunar ghost: is the Moon haunted?
by FAX droid #9
Over the past 10 years there have been more than 250 reported sightings of strange figures walking on
the lunar surface. Residents of far colonies, space-suited tourists and even highly trained observers
at a number of MoonWatch facilities all claim to have seen the mysterious "Moon
ghost," - as it has been called.
Although various aspects of the eyewitness reports seem to contradict each other, the number of
similarities indicates these sightings (even if no evidence exists to support the testimonies)
are indeed, of the same phenomenon. This unit was able to question directly, several of those humans
(no droid or other sentient machine has ever filed a Moon ghost sighting report) who are on record as
having "seen the Man on the Moon," and this unit's finely tuned sensors were unable to
determine whether or not they could be lying.
"There is no dark side of the Moon, really ... Matter of fact, it's all dark" - Pink Floyd
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After this unit's non-stop 500-hour vigil patrolling the surface, with particular attention to the
dark side areas of well-documented sightings, the assignment was completed - although this unit had
found no sign of the alleged ghost. On returning to FAX 21 HQ, and delivering this report to
INFOmaniac AI, this unit learned that a human reporter is soon to follow in its footsteps, to repeat
the investigation of this lunar mystery...
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Aliens top TV ratings
by Micky Hamil
Recently premiered on Sky Vision 21, The Klangers, that populist, otherworldly soap of alien
folk, has risen to snatch the much-coveted top slot from the wacky comedy hour Saturday Night...
Dead - starring resurrected funnymen, Johnny Belushi and the late Daniel Aikroyd.
Created by revolutionary genre merchant Bud Isometrics (who wrote International Lampoon's Star
Flight Academy 3, 1999), The Klangers is the 1st fully syndicated holo-drama to boast an
entirely nonhuman cast. The half-dozen regular characters are, in fact, bought to pseudo-life by a
host of state-of-the-art digital effects enhanced by computoon artistic techniques.
"Dad, Junior has something to tell..."
"Err, I didn't mean t'crash the mobile, Pop...
twas Riffy Wart's fault, he - "
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"I don't wanna hear it son, I just don't want to hear it..."
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The family of 5 weird aliens (who all have some rather disgusting habits, it must be said) are, of
course, anthropomorphised to within an inch of where dramatic licence becomes trash. They have dubbed
human voices, and practice pre-Millennium, middle-American suburban mores, but regular viewers claim
that such traits are "an integral part of the unusual programme's kitschy and 'twistory'
appeal."
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