Interference

The image disappeared suddenly after having been distorted for some seconds. Qrle groaned, it was tired of that happening every time it was trying to enjoy its image transmission. 

-Wliq! Could you contact the broadcasting company? It's happening again. 

Wliq joined Qrle in front of the image projector. They both were large, slimy, and of an unidentifiable color. Wliq groaned as Qrle had done. 

-They told me there is nothing wrong with the projector or with the signal. That it's simply some kind of foreign interference. They are trying to identify the source, there is some kind of pattern to it. As if someone was trying to communicate with us. 

-Well, we don't want to communicate with them! I just want to enjoy the image transmission alone. What would they have to say, anyway? "Hi, we want to be your friends", I don't want to be their friend! I wonder if they are tasty, though. 

-Qrle, you're too grumpy! It will be exciting to get in contact with other forms of life. If they have been able to send signals is because they are intelligent. 

-Intelligent! I wouldn't say they are. They've been stupid enough to blindly send a message to the emptiness of space hoping it reaches someone. And the only thing they have done is interfere with the image projector!

Wliq gave up, it knew that when Qrle was like this there was nothing it could do to make it reason. 

Many years ago, sixty million light years away from Wliq and Qrle planet, some scientists in Earth had sent a message to the space. 

-Imagine someone picks up our message!- said one of them. 

-Or something!- added another.