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You and the scorpion surreptitiously record the beat as it's playing out of the saucer. It's exactly as more-than-perfect as you hoped it would be. You two sneak back to re-listen to it when something about it jumps out at you: there's a message in it. Yes, this more-than-perfect beat contains a secret that's hidden inside of it. Hours go by as you and the scorpion studiously analyze and analytically study the beat, stretching, filtering, and modulating it until, finally, the words are perfectly audible. You have no doubt the most important secret space message from space says, "Equis-eh te-ere-ah effeh-emmeh baja-california mexico". This surely is its own secret code, and one that you will devote a lot of your time to decoding.

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