[u][b]High Orbit[/b][/u]
Several different passive sensors were registering signals - psi emissions, radio, quantum foam interference, and life detection, to name a few. That, of course, wasn't very surprising to the lone intelligence. A swarm of microsatellites was holding in geostationary orbit, transmitting the data to its ship. They would keep an eye on things while its ship went to the far side of the planet. It could have equipped the satellites with subspace transmitters so that it could receive sensor data on the far side of the planet, but it didn't want the satellites to interfere with its experiment. Besides, it frankly didn't care much. Not that much could happen in 40 minutes, anyway.

Of course, the other reason was that it didn't want its experiment on the far side of the planet to be contaminated by the first one. If the two ever contacted, the results would be interesting, if not catastrophic. Although making one side of the planet ocean and the other land was a bit much. If the lone intelligence had a mouth, it would have chuckled.

[u][b]8,6[/u][/b]
A chicken blindly wandered to and fro, stopping to cluck inanely. It had wandered some distance from its flock. Without warning, the chicken lept off of a very steep hillside. Reflexively, it flapped its wings, gradually and gently descending into the water. It splashed down directly in front of 15 massive bears (well, they weren't precisely [i]bears[/i]). 

They were greeted with a sight that looked something like this:
[img=http://i.imgur.com/cr6z8uo.png]