Race Updates Discord About Merch
Home Profile History Competitions Texts Messages Friends Upgrade

typeracer

Pit Stop

Record your races with a typeracer account:

Create Your Account
  • Save your race history and scores.
  • Customize your profile and racecar.
  • It’s free, why not?
Racer Roel (roelnl)
Race Number 6
Date Fri, 17 May 2013 10:58:01 +0000
Speed 68 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 90.0%
Rank 2nd place (out of 4)
Opponents karthik426 (3rd place) matoyas (1st place)

Text typed:

At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all, they were not absolutely sure it was an extraterrestrial message. A premature or mistaken announcement would be a public relations disaster. But worse than that, it would interfere with the data analysis. If the press descended, the science would surely suffer.
Contact (book) by Carl Sagan (see stats)