Disclaimer: I don't own The Rocky Horror Picture Show
A/N: I wrote this after reading about how people in the '70s thought pulsars were aliens signalling. It's also a joke on the fact that our hobby-'actress' playing Columbia has a PhD in Astrophysics (I'm not kidding).
(Living room. Columbia is reading a science magazine/journal. Enter Riff, looking annoyed)
Columbia: Hi! (Pause) Where's Magenta? Is she okay?
Riff: of course. She's perfectly fine.
Columbia: where is she?
Riff: (annoyed) happily employed.
Columbia: already?
Riff: I'm sure she'll tell us more once she's finished for the day. What's this you're reading?
Columbia: just some science thing I found. It was written by Earthlings so it might seem kinda primitive to you. You're Mr. Science Guy, yeah?
Riff: you could say that.
Columbia: I was just reading something that might interest you. So there's these pulses of energy that earth scanners have been picking up. According to this article they might be aliens trying to talk to us.
(Riff takes the magazine from Columbia and just rolls his eyes)
Riff: 'aliens trying to talk to you'? These are pulsars, silly. They're merely spinning neutron stars with weird magnetic fields emitting rays of energy. There's no conscious meaning to it.
Columbia: really? That's sad.
Riff: Nobody's allowed to officially contact you lot until the planet at large has a basic knowledge of time warp travel.
Columbia: how can you visit, then?
Riff: we're the same species and we used to live here.
Columbia: you're rogue Romans.
Riff: indeed.
Columbia: so there are actual aliens out there?
Riff: the universe is so big… you can't even imagine it, I know you can't. If it were just humans living here, well, wouldn't that be an awful waste of space?
Columbia: I guess. And I've always liked the idea of aliens. Well, ever since I heard Ziggy play guitar.
A/N: There's an attempted Carl Sagan reference in this scene... review if you got it! Or review if you like astronomy... or just review... because.