Last summer, there was an excavation effort by the Russians in Siberia. After digging one hundred feet into the ground, they produced their findings, several long strands of copper wires. Carbon dating placed the copper back one millennium ago; conclusively, the Russians declared, their ancestors already had a telephone network one thousand years ago.
Not to be outdone, the English began doing some digging by the end of that summer around Hadrian's Wall, and, by autumn, they had dug up some fiber optic components at three hundred feet. Like the Russians, they dated the findings, and announced to the world that the Anglo-Saxons had digital telephones around the age Christ was born.
Almost immediately, China also began digging around Zhe Jiang just shy of the ides of October. The excavation took a while, and, true to the SOP of the Communist government, no word came out from the project, even as rumors spread around that the digging had already reached four hundred feet. At five hundred feet, the digging suddenly came to a halt, and the Chinese declare the end to the excavation. Almost immediately, the Chinese announced on the news that the project had gone to five hundred feet below ground, and they found...absolutely nothing. This proved, they said, that Chinese emperors, three thousand years ago, were already enjoying the luxury of...wireless phones.
Not to be outdone, the English began doing some digging by the end of that summer around Hadrian's Wall, and, by autumn, they had dug up some fiber optic components at three hundred feet. Like the Russians, they dated the findings, and announced to the world that the Anglo-Saxons had digital telephones around the age Christ was born.
Almost immediately, China also began digging around Zhe Jiang just shy of the ides of October. The excavation took a while, and, true to the SOP of the Communist government, no word came out from the project, even as rumors spread around that the digging had already reached four hundred feet. At five hundred feet, the digging suddenly came to a halt, and the Chinese declare the end to the excavation. Almost immediately, the Chinese announced on the news that the project had gone to five hundred feet below ground, and they found...absolutely nothing. This proved, they said, that Chinese emperors, three thousand years ago, were already enjoying the luxury of...wireless phones.
