• AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world
    211·
    1 year ago

    You have to love the ridiculousness of how seriously aliens take humans in fiction.

    Pointy eared aliens landing in our dirt decide to establish an interplanetary coalition with us. Lol

    Bug like Aliens using advanced tactics and strategy to whittle down our defenses while we hack their computers. Lol

    We would be nothing to an FTL capable species. We would be nothing to an immortal synthetic species that can traverse the eons of space without ftl.

    We wouldn’t be their friends or their enemy, we would insects whose only utility would probably be in biological study and categorization, if not sterilization to eliminate any future potential rivals evolution may one day produce.

    We still largely burn decayed animal remains for warmth. We are still a bunch of monkeys in the dirt fighting over territory. If only our species sense of self-importance came anywhere near our capacity or worth.

    We literally undertook what would be the first impressive step in becoming something more than that, splitting the atom, for the sole purpose of try make big boomie boom rival monkey tribe.

    We’re just barely smart enough to be a danger to our own species on a large scale. We aren’t a threat or a peer to space faring civilizations.

    • DrQuint@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      We literally split the atom and with it, came up with the cleanest and cheapest way to support a large chunk of our energetic needs.

      Then some people did a big boom with it, and then a cartoon decided to draw it as green rods of evil energy, and there, the entire world decided to stop using it. And we’ve not started doing it again properly for several decades, all while we uproot carbon off the biosphere and the ground and into the air so we can boil ourselves to a climatic disaster.

      Aliens would find nothing worth respecting.