DATA COLLECTED FROM DIRT TIME, JANUARY 1927 - AUGUST 1939 After six years of observation, we received the first image transmissions from Dirt. These images were monochromatic, leading us to believe that humans had poor or no color vision. Perhaps they were a nocturnal species. It is also possible that the humans simply found the monochrome images to be sufficient for their purposes.
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