"Satellites in position. Camera drones out. Seismographs sited. Barometers, radiometers, chronometers all set. We're ready when you are."
The ramp lowered, and the best environment suit modern engineering could devise walked from the ship to the barren, inhospitable world that had never known moisture, let alone daisies. The chosen explorer reached the bottom, and then he was in a land of greenery and gentle inclines.
"Earthification complete. Looks like you're somewhere in Belgium. Get back in. I just hope we have enough data to figure out something about when and why this keeps happening."
"We already know," the explorer said as he returned. "Space is dumb and fake."
Finis
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