How to tell me you know absolutely nothing about the Xyblors without telling me you know absolutely nothing about the Xyblors.
Aliens capable of FTL travel might not even take note of us. Like we pass an ant hill on the side of the road. Too small, mundane, uninteresting, unimportant.
i see this a lot and like, i feel like this just completely misses how many people look at ants and go “what the fuck these insects are smart as fuck, do they have feelings? maybe we should be nicer toward them. hey ant can you understand me? here’s a couple grains of rice. i wonder if i can like, get some ant pheromones to talk to them…”
can you imagine that they eventually appear, and it’s not even diplomatic contact, but a rescue mission?
“You guys are absolutely fucked, we’re here on a charity mission to educate and help you maintain your environment and stay alive. Petrol and plastics are bad, you can use xyblorps instead. Xyblorps are actually quite simple to make, here’s someone to help…”
I prefer the zoo theory, they’re letting us figure it out until we can show them we’ve evolved beyond killing each other and making up gods to worship.
Actually xyblorbs are woke, best stick with clean coal
I would assume we would just keep ruining the planet, but faster, with weaponized xyblorps, and the aliens would get caught in the crossfire. Our predicament is a symptom of human nature/society. Striving for power and dominance, even in a post-scarcity society. They’d have to remake us, stamp out the traits that bring these conflicts. But then we wouldn’t be us anymore.
But then we wouldn’t be us anymore.
oh no. anyway…
There’s some good things… and I’d like to keep those. No need for cultural tabula rasa.
We don’t rescue random anthills though
Like some kind of a roadside picnic.
Its how the S.T.A.L.K.E.R universe came to be iirc. Aliens passing by, throwing their trash on earth, like we humans litter our roadsides…
If aliens capable of FTL existed, they’d have basically taken over the universe by now and would be very hard to miss, probably.
I recommend taking a peek at Orion’s Arm for what civilization without FTL extrapolated out to a mere few thousand years looks like: https://www.orionsarm.com/
It’s quite different than what I or pretty much anyone would picture with most sci fi, but… makes a lot of sense. And if you give a civilization like that FTL, well, the current state of the universe doesn’t make much sense, as they’d basically be everywhere and omniscient gods in a very short time.
That looks interesting, thanks for the link.
Call me speciesist if you wany but the Xyblors are fucking awful to smoke with, just because you have 3 mouths doesnt mean you get 3x as many hits on the blunt rotation and they always leave the blunt soggy with their ooze and im sick of getting Alkali burns from it.
The universe is so big that if we meet the Xyblors, it means there MUST be Nublons and Kryxons out there too.
Brings to mind some of the lines from Yard Act’s “100% Endurance”. Wouldn’t call it my favorite example of their musical ability but as storytelling and a way to close out the album it’s from, I like it. Stuff like “The Overload” and “We Make Hits” is what drew me in initially (due partially to their videos but the tunes are pretty catchy).
In case spoilers are a thing for musical verses 36 seconds into a song:
Basically, they’d discovered that there were others just like us
Other beings, other creatures, other planets with other species
Who had other gods that they believed in
And they interviewed all of them and everyone of them
Not one could give any hint of a clue what they were doing here eitherTrenchcoat museum was what drew me.
First time I heard that one, I played it again twice more just to take one time each to try and focus on the music and video without being too distracted by the other. Love how they do the running themes and story threads.
