Prickly City by Scott Stantis for May 24, 2024

Can’t attribute cruelity to just humans, most species display some form of cruelity. Some even worse than humans. Don’t say we know better…because we don’t!

Stantis is still in the both siderism mode.

Of course aliens wouldn’t visit us. We’d try to shoot them down before they landed.

Almost all life on this world dies prematurely, often violently, and is eaten by other life. What a draw.

Read the “The Three Body Problem” by Cixin Liu (Ken Liu translation)

I believe this is from “Contact” by Carl Sagan.

got that right

I think they were here when humans were less developed. Look at the creations that had to be laid out from an elevated position. But why would space aliens want to revisit now that things are like a zoo like clown shown? That’s why when they do come to take a look, they zoom off so fast.

They probably see us as bumbling idiots.

The proof that there are intelligent aliens out there is that they have not contacted us.

Scott, have an arc where you explicitly show what demagoguery is.

Happy Towel Day Everyone

I met an alien yesterday.

What does “Kneel To Zod!!” mean?

“You’re an interesting species. An interesting mix. You’re capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you’re not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.”― Carl Sagan, Contact