Shaw stares at the petroglyphs in awe.
"I think they want us to come and find them."
Just then, Maledoro appears as if from nowhere, typical when these sorts of topics are breached across the Galaxy. "What makes you say that?" he asks.
"You fool, can't you see what this is!?"
"I see a cave painting, nothing more. Why – what do you see?"
"It's a bloody star map," she says in a horrible British drawl.
"Clearly, you fail to grasp simple scientific principles."
"We've found the same image in digs all over the world, throughout the many centuries of human history; this one is dated 35,000 years old. It's a star map, duh."
Mal sighs, "First, if these cave paintings are separated by centuries, star positions would be drastically different to each separate culture, since stars move and change through time. Even then, five circles painted on a wall can never work as actual cosmic coordinates because the universe is vast. That pattern of five circles would appear all over our own Milky Way galaxy, let alone other galaxies. Lastly and most important, 35,000 years ago this cave was under an ice sheet in the last ice age so--"
"STAR MAP!"
Mal draws his gun and shoots the bitch dead.
"People should fact-check peer reviewed journals and websites before making wild claims."
