• Una@europe.pub
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    2 days ago

    Wouldn’t it make more sense to bring them to a scientist, or at least if they as “bring me to your leader” say “you are looking at one, pal”

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      23 hours ago

      Wouldn’t it make more sense to bring them to a scientist

      Have you seen the state Jordan B. Peterson is in right now? He’s absolutely not ready for space aliens. Dude’s too invested in four day harmonous time cubes and Women as arch-typical Australian dragons.

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      23 hours ago

      If I was visiting an alien world, there’s no way I’m visiting the scientists. What are the chances the first thing they do won’t be ripping open my stomach?

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      Yes, and it would be one of the scientists working in the extraterrestrial center of the UN. That’s not what it’s called, i forgot and I’m too lazy to look it up.

      My guess though is that it would probably be the best authority to talk to aliens.

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      Scientists aren’t usually leaders, and me saying that I’m a leader would be an obvious lie, and I’m not going to outright lie at someone who came here with a spaceship from lightyears away.

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        Nah, I’m gonna lie and I’m gonna make perfect steak out of their meat 🤤🤤

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    2 days ago

    America would scoop that alien up and have him locked in a 5 hr Joe rorgan podcast within an hour of setting foot om earth.

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      If they made it all the way here they’d definitely kick our asses by themselves and they’d definitely know that we are, as a group, a planetary trailer-park. Alien who let us pull one over on them would have to be astronomically(heh) stupid.

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        I mean, yes but also - think about the sheer marvels of mechanical, electrical, and software engineering carefully packed into an average modern car… and now think about your average driver

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          I was thinking about how to say just that, but unless the aliens were at “tourist” level with interstellar travel I doubt they’d be doing first contact with such little planning.

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            17 hours ago

            There’s a funny 90s film I saw once on TV about some US midwestern family driving through space in their car, but have to make a pit stop (crash landing?) on Earth. They’re immediately seized by the US government who grill and torture the dad on how their vehicle works, and the dad’s like “well there’s a clutch… and you got the gas pedal…”

            I really wish I could find that film again, it had stoner comedy vibes


            Edit: It might be Mom and Dad Save the World (1992) though I can’t find the scene where they ask the dad how the car / space ship works

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      “DOG, I said thank dog!..if you are leaving then, please, take me with you. PLEASE. It’s such a fucking shit show here.
      I…I will let you probe me. Please don’t leave me here!”