The narrator once again takes over to give us some important background information. We are told that on Earth, dolphins had always considered themselves more intelligent than man, and that they had known of Earth's impending destruction in enough time to leave Earth by their own means before it occurred. The last ever dolphin message to mankind was misinterpreted as a double-backward-somersault, but in fact the message was meant as: "So long and thanks for all the fish." We then learn that there was another species.....
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