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December 26, 2017May 7, 2018 Alex Heberling Leave a comment

imagine you saw an alien spacecraft and your first reaction was to critique its flat color palette and unimaginative lines

gonna be real, this would be me

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October 14, 2017May 8, 2018 Alex Heberling Leave a comment

wayward-naiad:

medieisme:

cosmictuesdays:

trynottodrown:

zooophagous:

bugcthulhu:

filbypott:

rafzombie:

i know its a stingray but it looks like cthulhu popped his head up to say hi

I thought it was a giant squid.

holy shit they get this big?

They do get this big! They also tame relatively easily and are surprisingly docile animals. Its popular to swim with them in many beachy areas. As long as you’re not stupid and mean to them, your odds of being hurt by them are very low.

I had the opportunity to swim with a school of them on a sandbar once and I must say they are very aggreeable animals, though they do have the tendency to mob you if you have food, and they can be quite heavy. Still very pleasant animals.

ha cthulhu

Humans will pet anything. If aliens come, that might be what distinguishes us from the rest of the galaxy.

“we were going to blow them up, but they engaged in an oddly pleasing patting ritual and, well, it was nice.”

PSA

I’ve been collecting Optimistic First Contact scenarios recently (WONDER WHY) and this one just delights me.

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July 17, 2016July 17, 2016 Alex Heberling Leave a comment

erikahammerschmidt:

funereal-disease:

spaceshipoftheseus:

thezohar:

floating-head:

This is the dumbest thing to nitpick but the phrase “real UFO” bothers me any UFO is a real UFO as long as it’s unidentified and flying because that’s what those words mean weather or not it’s an alien is a different matter it could be a pancake someone threw real hard as long as you don’t know that’s what it is it’s a UFO

i’ve said it before, and i’ll say it again: anything is a UFO if you’re bad enough at identifying stuff

A counterproposal: in order to be a fake UFO, something can fail to be an object, or fail to be flying.

So the batsignal, improperly identified, could be a fake UFO, because although it appears in the sky and might be mistaken for a UFO, it is neither a physical object nor in any meaningful sense flying. Various light projections, optical illusions, and meteorological phenomena might fall into this category.

Additionally, seen from a distance or in poor lighting/visibility conditions, some sort of bulbous sculpture on a very tall thin support might also appear to be a UFO, and fulfill both the ‘unidentified’ and ‘object’ criteria, without flying, and therefore qualify as a ‘fake UFO’.

this may be the most pedantic thing I’ve ever written in my life

and we love you for it

But if it was made by real aliens, then THEY obviously know what it is.

So, if it is an actual alien spaceship, then it is not unidentified, and is therefore not a real UFO.