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worrying that the space window which had allowed the travel could close, shortly that the space would unfold suddenly 21. Eventually, the six expeditionaries observed the vessels flying rapidly up to an altitude of six thousands meters, and dematerialised 22 after having heated their surface to incandescence, not to bring home some unknown germs from the twin Universe and from the planet they were originated. As the day began we could observed the surroundings quietly, staying hidden. We knew mostly nothing about the customs of the Earth inhabitants. In the previous weeks we had done many reconnaissances with the help of automatic probes and we had obtained lots of pictures, which remained not understood. In our devices, we had no equipments allowing to catch TV broadcasting, what would have been very useful. On the other side we could receive the flow of radio emissions coming from the whole planet. We began to decode the local languages helped by our computer, but the linguistic diversity of your planet seemed creasy. This part of the texts requires a explanation word. According to the reports, UMMO would not have known the phenomena called drift of continents. On Earth, this is responsible for the fragmentation of the initial continent: the Gondwana, and for the reliefs. When the continental plates hit each other, this created folds we call mountains. The Himalaya corresponds to the telescoping of India, which has went away from south Africa and which met Mongolia. The Alps corresponds to the movements of the Italian peninsula, which came rapidly into the rest of European continent. Just look to a map to be convinced of that. If on Earth, the magma became stable 23 and that the movements of tectonic plates ceased, the erosion would let our mountains disappear in some tens of million years. Our continents would become flat as our hands. Any geophysics specialist would confirm that. UMMO would not have and mountains (neither oceanic deeps), only some rests of vulcan very eroded. The Ummits gave us by the way a map of their planet: 100