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AND THEY DIDN'T STOP EATING (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Are we just looking for imaginative ways to destroy ourselves at this point? We have enough options already! But we have to keep looking for more creative previously unknown ways to kill ourselves.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

We've got to leave something interesting for the alien xeno-archaeologists of the future to uncover.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Xeno-archaeologist 1,000 years from now: ..... yeah .... it's another one .... fourth one in this sector .... just blew themselves up and destroyed everything for some dumb reason ... probably economics like in that last system 35 light years away .... too bad ... if we had arrived earlier, we could have helped them out ... oh well

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Further research shows that they blew everything up trying to deal with the ancient, insatiable, worms they released on themselves out of curiosity. Upon reflection, it is probably better that we didn't arrive earlier.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Alien #1: ... HEY KORG! ... look at this! ... (picks up human skull and starts comically operating the jawbone) ... HEY LOOK AT ME! Imma intelligent species and my economy is more important because I have to pay for these worms ... so imma gonna blow up the world for some reason

KORG: ... Stop messing around Kang ... this place gives me the creeps, let's get out of here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

Exactly, do you want them to know we polluted ourselves to death? That's just shameful

Now, if we accidentally unleashed an ancient parasite? That's just unfortunate

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago

Maybe it's related to thawing of permafrost and they want to research what to do if all the frozen bugs come back to life