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[–] 36 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Tell them to run. They're safer out there than here.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago* (15 children)

    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 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA)

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Which kind of scientist would you send?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Maybe an astrobiologist, linguist, and anthropologist?

    Edit: probably some physicists as well, someone who can help build up a common mutual understanding from universal physical constants and so on

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Alien: thank wha... 😬 umm we'll come back later.

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