"Please, sit down, Dr. Weller,"
        "Thank you, sir."
        "Have you ever been to the White House before?"
        "No sir, Mr. President."
        "It's just another big building, you'll get used to it. Do you want anything to drink? Coffee, juice?"
        "No thank you, sir."
        "Someone get Dr. Weller a glass of water please?"
        "Right away, sir."
        "Doctor, why don't you tell the President what you explained to me and the other gentlemen earlier?"

        "Well, it started when I was taking pictures of a certain star; you try to see if it wobbles around, just by a tiny bit, you understand, but if it is then that's one way to detect if it has a planet orbiting around it.
        Then, on one of the pictures - here, this one, you can see it here - there was something new. Like a bright, very tiny extra star that suddenly appeared near the one I was studying.
        Obviously, I was sure it was a mistake, something wrong with my instruments. But the next night - here, on this image - it was still there. And it had moved. The dot, the extra star I mean. And the way it moved - it was being pulled by the main star's gravity. It was really there."
        "How fast would you say that this 'extra star' was moving?"
        "About 30 percent of the speed of light, sir."
        "Did you tell anyone about this?"
        "No sir. I, uh - I wanted whatever I found to be my discovery."
        "And the next night?"
        "The next night it was gone, sir."
        "Gone?"
        "The little extra star wasn't there anymore. As soon as I saw that, I took another set of pictures, this time looking more at the non-visible spectrum, infra-red and radiation. This image."
        "Tell me what I'm looking at here."
        "Lots of infra-red, lots of radiation, all spreading away from a central point. Sir, that central point is on the path of the little star."
        "Tell him about the dots."
        "I'm getting there. Mr. President, see these dots around the center point? By this point, I already had a crazy idea, so I checked their exact wavelength, just to make sure I was wrong."
        "But you weren't wrong?"
        "No, sir. These dots are gamma radiation which originally had exactly five-hundred and eleven kilo-electron-volts of energy. Sir, 511 KeV is the characteristic product of electron-positron annihilation. Anti-matter burning.
        “Sir, these dots are spaceship engines.

        “Sir, I believe that the center of the radiation I detected used to be a planet. I believe that what looked like an extra star was the exhaust of a weapon, a missile which someone else pointed at that planet and then accelerated to a relativistic velocity. At that speed, it doesn't need to have a bomb on it - it destroyed the planet just by hitting it. Destroyed the actual planet, sir. And at the speed it was going, it would have been completely unstoppable.
        These dots, the spaceships, they're lifeboats. Those are the survivors."

        "Tell me, Doctor, what do you think this means for us? Not just for the United States, I mean for all of humanity."
        "I think it means we can never be at peace. Because now we know for sure that somewhere out there there are other beings, and they still have wars, and in those wars they are capable and willing to destroy entire planets.
        “Whoever launched that weapon, they're out there somewhere. And we're going to meet them someday - not you and me, and probably not our children, but someday humanity will meet them. And when we do, we need to be ready to defend ourselves.
        “We can't spend hundreds of years preparing for just that - we don't even know what to prepare for. So we have to keep fighting each other, we have to keep pushing ourselves to develop better technologies and better weapons and better tactics, so that when we meet whoever's out there - and it's when, not if now – so that when we meet them, we don't end up as just a cloud of radiation around where the Earth used to be.”