Alien Invasion. We are done for.

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Punkawallah

Über Member
I assumed you'd been abducted years ago and they'd sent you back.

I don’t think ‘returned for a refund’ qualifies as being ‘sent back’ :-)
 

captain nemo1701

Space cadet. Deck 42 Main Engineering.
Location
Bristol
No one would have believed in the last years of 2024 that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.

With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable.

It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. And early in 2025 came the great disillusionment.

As we all know, they weren't so advanced in the biosecurity dept:laugh:....forgetting about germs, bunch of amateurs!.

If you check out some of the Star Trek original series bloopers, there's one where Kirk says something like 'we'll beam down' and suddenly James Doohan butts in and says 'Captain, you forgot about the environmental stuff' to the cast & crew laughter.

They corrected this in ST TNG by adding biosecurity filters to the transporter.
 

cyberknight

As long as I breathe, I attack.
When Leonard basically called Sheldon an alien for being weird AF_.jpg
 
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