It’s the year 500,000,000 AD. Planet Earth was destroyed by a huge comet collision 450 million years previously.

A radio message sent by humanity in a last ditch desperate effort to secure help has just arrived in a far off planet. It was sent by British scientists. The alien civilization manages to decipher it. It reads: "Planet at risk of total destruction. Please come & save us all. Except Gerry Adams. He's in the ra." 

(Context: Sam McBride in the Belfast Tele today saying Gerry is in the ra.