• balderdash
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    205 months ago

    This is the type of shit I wish I was creative enough to come up with

  • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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    5 months ago

    Good news is that by dumping teratons of CO2 into the atmosphere we’re changing the spectroscopic signature of our atmosphere in a way that makes it clear that we’re intelligent life that needs some help.

    Bad news is that it might also kill us before they get here.

  • IninewCrow
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    125 months ago

    Sterilize it is … pushes button for planetary sterilization radiation beam

  • @[email protected]
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    125 months ago

    No, no you can’t. We turn the oceans into acid and are collectively one torn paper bag away from starting a nuclear war.

    Best you can do is containing the amalgamation of insanity called mankind on this planet. Because if we make it off this world, we will probably hunt you down for fun.

    You have been warned.

  • nifty
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    115 months ago

    I’ve played too much XCOM to know how this really turns out.

  • @[email protected]
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    65 months ago

    A possibly interesting read would be about aliens who bring a cure for all illness, but unknown to use it also cures people of the need to get ahead of thier fellow human at all costs. Thus they stabilize the human race which then stabilizes the planet…

    • @[email protected]
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      45 months ago

      Something kind of adjacent to this happens in Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis series. Aliens come over to fix the Earth and humanity, but decide that human nature is part of the problem, and set out to modify it. It’s a really interesting read.