• Soup@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    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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      2 days 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