• over_clox@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I’m confused. Why would aliens be interested in a planet full of trash and pollution in the first place?

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      5 months ago

      The comic is depicting 65 million years ago, suggesting that the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs was actually aliens. Not present day.

      At least I think so. The figure on the ground strikes me is somewhat human. Maybe that’s meant to be one of the aliens.

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        5 months ago

        Ah, context does help a bit. Still though, in almost any era of Earth, I don’t see much reason for aliens to take interest in this complex planet, whether it’s to inhabit it or destroy it.

        If by chance there actually are any aliens out there observing us, they’re probably laughing and watching us destroy ourselves…

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              Birds are dinosaurs, and they’ve got feathers because dinosaurs had feathers. This “bird” has a teethed snout, not a beak, and the proportions of feet and feathered arms are not that of a recent bird. Feet are too muscular, arms are armsn not wings. It’s clearly depicting some raptor-like dinosaur according to the current knowledge about them.

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                  Good to know. Thank you for the opportunity to spill useless knowledge.

                  By the way, did you know that before laurentian mammalian carnivores made it to South America, three meter high terror birds were the apex predators there?

                  And that, birds being therapods and there existing more bird species than mammsluan species, the Age of Dinosaurs is actually still ungoing?

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      the only thing interesting about this planet is it’s life.

      I’ve come to assume that if aliens do come here… it’s either to wipe us from existence or to convert us. (and then wipe us from existence when we refuse to convert.)

      But there’s no way any aliens would be interested in our resources (there’s much easier resources to acquire if you’re space fairing,) they wouldn’t be interested in territory (again, it’s a lot easier to build a space station than it is to come to another star system,); trade is prohibitively expensive except for cultural exchanges (and really we’ve been blasting our “culture” out into space, so… uh…yeah.)