Reminded of a SF story in which the invaders’ scout follows a wolverine which faces down a bear and steals its catch, thus showing it is clearly a top predator, and might be the species they’ll need to exterminate. The wolverine, though, turns out to have been raised since a baby by a human family including a little girl who scolds “my Glutton” for being gone several days… and the wolverine abases itself to her.
The scout understanding only that an obvious child is seen as superior by the wolverine, high-tails it back to its ship and sends off a message saying that the peak species here is far too aggressive for them to even consider invading.
awgiedawgie Premium Member over 5 years ago
Look, mom… we got a free UFO.
Watcher over 5 years ago
mmm… alien flesh.
Strob Premium Member over 5 years ago
“Hi, Chum!”
Walrus Gumbo Premium Member over 5 years ago
Close Encounters meets Jaws.
derdave969 over 5 years ago
The latest Uber Eats expansion comes to a grisly end.
donwalter over 5 years ago
No no…take me to a DIFFERENT leader…
ArtyD2 Premium Member over 5 years ago
Great, this will be an episode on the ‘Science’ channel next season.
Paschendale over 5 years ago
And thus the invasion was thwarted.
bobpeters61 over 5 years ago
Interstellar incident.
Zebrastripes over 5 years ago
Well, there went those aliens on vacation…
matzam Premium Member over 5 years ago
who’s eating who
Zen-of-Zinfandel over 5 years ago
In spite of one major mishap, everything went swimmingly.
ncorgbl over 5 years ago
Good to know. Sharks like little green, scaly things.
the lost wizard over 5 years ago
No parking on the beach.
Petemejia77 over 5 years ago
Nice and creepy! Has a Charles Adams tone.
streetbeater over 5 years ago
Was Deering watching a Spielberg marathon?
El Cobbo Grande over 5 years ago
Maybe that is the aliens…..ship seems to have a big aquarium on it
!!ǝlɐ⅁ Premium Member over 5 years ago
The footprints took a jump to the left…
…and a step to the right…
cuzinron47 over 5 years ago
I see they’ve met our peace negotiators.
TheLetterista.com over 5 years ago
I laughed out loud. Hahahaha!
Concretionist over 5 years ago
Reminded of a SF story in which the invaders’ scout follows a wolverine which faces down a bear and steals its catch, thus showing it is clearly a top predator, and might be the species they’ll need to exterminate. The wolverine, though, turns out to have been raised since a baby by a human family including a little girl who scolds “my Glutton” for being gone several days… and the wolverine abases itself to her.
The scout understanding only that an obvious child is seen as superior by the wolverine, high-tails it back to its ship and sends off a message saying that the peak species here is far too aggressive for them to even consider invading.
Hmm. Could that explain the Fermi Paradox?
SF Giants over 5 years ago
So long and thanks for all the fish.