@georgetakei Someone should write a script. I know this guy Nick who's really good.

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@georgetakei Didn’t that happen, George? And when they came back years later and the whales they were talking to were gone, they started attacking Earth, so you had to go back to 1985 in a DeLorean or something to make sure your parents met and got married or am I mixing up movies again…

@georgetakei the worst case is that they tried to communicate with an extinct species and you don't have a spaceship to go back in time to de-extinct it

@georgetakei I mean I don't think humanity merits much more than side-eyeing at the moment...

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i'm not scared, didn't Ivan Sanderson (Invisible Residents) postulate this already happened before most of us were born?

"used to read old kook literature when it was still fun"

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You should know, George, since you were in that movie.

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@georgetakei someone should make a movie about that ..... 😃 🖖

@georgetakei Where did I see that before... 🤔

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...or just cats. They only talked to cats.

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i miss #octopus/caveman, and wish he as on mastodon.

@georgetakei Weren't you in a movie based on that scenario?

@georgetakei Especially if they're in the sea off the coast of the UK - 💩💩💩💩💩

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I'm more concerned about dyslexic robots...

Seam me up, Botty.

@georgetakei Haven't we seen that movie?

@georgetakei Like Star Trek IV

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I read a story a few years ago with a similar theme. Aliens arrive, do inscrutable stuff, and leave. On the way out of the solar system, they turn off the sun. The last line was "Presently it began to get cold." I don't remember the author. It was in a year's best anthology.

I've contacted the Merril Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy at Toronto Public Library and if I get an answer, I'll post it here.

@georgetakei Weren’t you in a movie about that? :-P

@georgetakei The most terrifying science fiction story imaginable is that we encounter aliens and they treat us the same way we've treated every other species we've encountered on this planet.

@georgetakei almost a Stephen Baxter book (Manifold series!)

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Hope it wasn’t the lobsters! 🦞

@georgetakei Considering how much land surface we have in comparison to sea, the obvious first place for aliens to look would be the oceans. As Douglas Adams wrote, “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish.”

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Reader, they did.

@georgetakei there is a ocean/sea spider that looks like biblical correct angel

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