Extrapolate.

It worked for those kids in Ethiopia.

"Admiral."



"Report."



"Scan of Sector 742 complete. Results indicate the blue planet creatures have yet to initialize the Utopia device."



"Really? Interesting. How long has it been?"



"Roughly 250,000 of their solar cycles. Barely a thousandth of a cosmic year."



"Perhaps we overestimated their intelligence."



"They seem naturally inquisitive. They have recently invented what they call 'tablets.' Some designs are approaching a level of complexity to what our own young create in the womb. Others are less advanced, but serviceable, such as the HP TouchPad 9.7" 32GB Wi-Fi Tablet we recovered."



"It does not matter. We have left our technology on their world in the hopes they would discover and learn to activate it. So far they have not even acknowledged its existence."



"Shall we disable the Utopia device?"



"No. But mark the sector as non-sapient. We'll waste no further time waiting for the creatures to join us among the stars."

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