You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
The only thing that moves at the speed of light is light.
And humanity doesn't even have a backup planet, or any way to terraform, or any way to get a large section of the population to another planet even if terraforming were possible..
Nowhere the Earthlings can retreat to, or call in aid from. And the Earth is a dumb sphere and space is all three-dimensional, so logistics are all boogered up because the aliens could attack from anywhere.
Eventually, I start thinking that the best course of action is to annihliate all life on Earth and destroy all the resources so as to flip off the aliens.
Anyways, why am I so paranoid about alien invasions? My thoughts keep turning to how if aliens ever visited Earth, we'd get space smallpox and all immediately die. OR the aliens would repossess Earth with stupid alien loopholes like Eminent Domain and outvote humanity into giving up everything. What if aliens exploit the earth, or trash it up, or use it as a dumping ground? I keep thinking that Humanity isn't united, and neither were the native Americans; and I keep thinking that humanity is so helpless in the threat of invasion.
And worse, radio and electric signals going out at the speed of light. THe Earth's position has already been sent out, revealing an intelligent species. There's no way to go out and catch all the radio signals and stop them. The aliens, once they get a signal, will have time to prepare for an invasion and Earth is busy fighting itself.
Rely on the natural selfishness of humanity.
We may be short-sighted and stubborn, but aliens are both a classic example of The Other and a tangible focus for the everlasting question "why does my life suck so much". We'd find a way to tear them apart in time. Nothing motivates like xenophobia and prejudice.
Yeah, they'd get infected if they went to Earth. If the ones exposed to Earth went back into space to spread it to the other ones... It's a good strategy for stopping a ground invasion. They could come to Earth, but they could never leave without destroying everything.
Another thing: EMP pulses. Those brick electronics. A giant one of those would cripple civilization.
We need some mad scientist to figure out how to un-brick electronics. LIke, an anti-magnet that makes computers work instead of breaking them.
Ah dang, if the aliens are somehow considered "cute" by humanity, then it's all over. Like if they look like baby Caimans or kittens or jumping spiders.
See, this is exactly the sort of thing that we need to unify the world to fight against. This sort of thing that you can't fight because free thinkers would protest and you couldn't get the general public to fear it. Humanity just won't see hem as the Other. Xenophobia won't work against Cat-People.
THey wouldn't even have to wreck all of our internet, they could just use it for propaganda.
They could even give us technology to make life better in exchange for being allowed to visit Earth, and then we're all dead from an all-devouring fungus that decays your body while you are still alive and then slowly digests the rotted meat (while you are still alive) (chestnut blight; it is horrifying). Like smallpox-infested blankets.
There's just no way I can see humanity surviving, should cute aliens discover Earth.
I see almost no chance of humanity surviving if not-cute aliens discover earth. And there's no way to stop aliens discovering Earth. The best consolation is in the massive distances involved and in the impossibility of FTL travel.
As long as the aliens are such that humanity can properly hate them, then there may be a chance. But there is no hope to defeat the catgirl people. In case of catgirl, destroy Earth. Or try to figure out their weakness and try to send a message of it to the next planet.
Okay, that's out of my system. The power of hate and science will save humanity. And if not, we can program robots to do hate and science for us, so cuteness will be a non-issue (nice try, cat/alligator/spider aliens). Problem solved!
And then I'll feel sad about killing the aliens, even though they were trying to invade my home planet.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
HEY ALIROZ
Wanna see an absurd size comparison regarding modern technology?
32 GB of storage on a card the size of my thumbnail
That's not even the largest capacity they come in, either
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
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I am content with cat-based aliens.
See, this is exactly the sort of thing that we need to unify the world to fight against. This sort of thing that you can't fight because free thinkers would protest and you couldn't get the general public to fear it. Humanity just won't see hem as the Other. Xenophobia won't work against Cat-People.
As long as the aliens are such that humanity can properly hate them, then there may be a chance. But there is no hope to defeat the catgirl people. In case of catgirl, destroy Earth. Or try to figure out their weakness and try to send a message of it to the next planet.
Bad news: another wisdom tooth has taken its place and is hurting like a bitch
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
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