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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Class 13 Death World

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If we're going by Columbus logic, probably "Jupiter"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Can we get to Jupiter through Earth? No, but at least there’s beaver.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Meat Packing Facility #173

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

The call it "Dirt". There was a misunderstanding with the word "Earth" and it got translated to soil or dirt, so they picked "Dirt".

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

“This isn’t Mars? You’re not martians? Ah fuck you, you’re martians.”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

“West Martians”.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Hmm, so they were aiming for something else, but got here instead because they had crank theories about the shape of the universe? (Columbus thought Earth was egg-shaped instead of a sphere, like everyone had correctly thought since the time of ancient Greece)

They call us something translating to "the Andromidans".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I mean you don't have to go with the analogy fully, but yeah, that's a deep answer, I suppose.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Translated to English, probably “Name-of-Star” 3, as in 3rd planet from our star, same system as Star Trek. The key difference is Columbus had no idea where he was going, and aliens have to know exactly where they’re going. Can’t shoot into space and find a planet by accident.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Chances are you can find a planet by accident, it's just going to take a very long time

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Blue Marble probably

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

The Wet Ball of Trash

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

Are the aliens going to rape and enslave?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Very likely

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Salty Water Ball With Some Dirt Patches

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

their new colony

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Probably not Alienia

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Water planet with cancerous hairless simian population.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

"Planet of the money-crazy hairless apes that can't relax"

Or "Klaus"...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Open season on the tasty meat creatures

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

Probably some Italian gibberish.

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

A fixer-upper.