Another thought came to Stan at that moment...
If the discovery of the Spirit Pool had truly gone viral over the past forty-eight hours, then the global scientific community was already aware of it. And if scientists knew, then governments, research institutions, and private laboratories certainly did as well.
By now, plans would already be in motion. Expeditions. Funding approvals. Access negotiations. Sample retrieval missions and test..
The international race to investigate the anomaly had almost certainly begun.
But the system hadn't warned him that the scientific community might reach the Spirit Pool first.
It had warned him that it could be claimed by another party.
That wording was deliberate. Which meant the real competition probably wasn't ordinary scientists.
Stan's thoughts drifted back to Introduction to Earth.
