Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for May 22, 2022

Alien 1: “Hi Earthlings. I am Uber, and this is my partner, Yeets. We will let you guess why we’re here.”

For more on why yelling “We are here! We are here! We are here!” is a bad idea unless someone is about to boil our personal dust speck in oil, there’s this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAUJYP8tnRE

Aliens would have to be within 48 Light-years of Earth to have received this 1974 first message (There are about 130 stars that are that close). They would have to be within about 24 Light-years to have received and returned a message to Earth.

How did the three-eyed aliens get the updated menu when it’s not supposed to be sent for another two years?

Those guys don’t tip.

To serve man…

We now have delivery for that take out. Provided by delivery specialists such as Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson.

To Serve Man

In ‘74 I was I was fantastic. Now, years later, I’m still fantastic, just not in the same way.

We’re all thinking of the twilight zone right now, aren’t we?

We come for the 21 piece bucket meal.

What maroons thought it a good idea to attract attention of powerful dangerous aliens? Obviously any aliens who be capable enough to intercept and decipher the message would be powerful enough to invades and destroys us easily, unless they decided to do worse things to us in their labs. To “encourage peaceful encounters”? Oh please! What creature on this planet is peaceful and you expect creatures from another planet to be any better? Me want to know who be these delusional wiseguys who want to send more detailed information into space.

who thought this was good idea?

If the aliens try to contact Aracebo they are going are going to be out of luck because Aracebo went off line on 12/1/20 when the radio telescope collapsed.

Well, that message probably won’t come from Arecibo again, it collapsed late last year.

This gag has been done. A lot.

We are very generous. Most of us know someone we might place on your menu.

CATCH OF THE DAY

Major coincidence: I am reading my Sunday comics late today, and there is an episode of “Bob’s Burgers” on while I do so: the episode is about how one of the characters had a school science experiment to contact the aliens… and that another wanted to prevent it for just this situation in “Brewster Rockit”… ;-)