12000 years from now, Cockbert Roachstein, upon examining the peculiar dynamics of a passing moonlet, sets the scientific and philosophical community clicking and chirping with controversy on the suggestion that a mysterious ancient intelligence designed the scheme keep the planet's temperature in equilibrium as the sun heats up...

"You mean to suggest a bunch of *click* _monkeys_ could steer the planet? Those creatures-in-the-dust who couldn't even survive _radiation_? You are hereby sentenced for *chirp* roach-heresy."