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    The Moon is a Person Now

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    by Katherine Riegel

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    When they sent the first rocket

    filled with nanobots out to Mars,

     

    they never expected a crash landing

    so close to Earth. The humans on board

     

    died immediately, but the nanobots

    streamed out into the dust.

     

    What happened next is too complex

    for most of us to understand.

     

    I like to imagine

    they were lonely, with no humans

     

    around. That they couldn’t find

    the hidden water they’d been promised

     

    and got frustrated, then bored.

    Turning dust and rock to a giant

     

    face was nothing—child’s play.

    But how to talk to Earth

     

    so we would hear? And then—

    even harder, nearly impossible

     

    to decide—what to say first?

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