Which would mean, in the event of aliens actually showing up, our role becomes the Great Old One’s jailers. The Star-Spawn of Cthulhu will not come in peace.
Kaintukee Bobsays
Nah, nobody communicates with us because they understand our psychology too well.
Humans (in general) when they see a new animal tend to have one of two thoughts: “Does it taste good” and “Can I fuck it”.
The answers (to both) in the alien’s cases is likely, “Yes, but you might die”
In short, we do not make good neighbors.
robrosays
Sounds like a new wrapping narrative for the Greek titans. Old stories never die.
consciousness razorsays
But if you’re going to be eaten first, Cthulhu would probably get some kind of crazy disease, which he’d want to avoid, so he wouldn’t do that, which is why the aliens wouldn’t know about him, which is why they would come here, but they might get some kind of crazy disease that they’d want to avoid, so they won’t, which is why you wouldn’t know about them….
In other words, this whole planet is The One Ring, and that’s why there are so many absolutely shitty people – evil eldritch magicks driving them insane!
jrkrideausays
Not that I can remember the name ( I thought it was Frymaman or whatever) but I always thought of the Monazuma response.
“White-skinned men in big wooden boats?”
willjsays
We have to deal with our own monsters. No aliens to the rescue.
Richard Smithsays
The theory that aliens want to keep the great old ones imprisoned on Earth is known as the Fermi-LaPorte hypothesis.
It’s not us they’re avoiding, it’s those uncouth dolphins.
chigau (違う)says
“Mostly harmless.”
Artorsays
Hey PZ. Knowing your newfound love for spiders, let me direct you to the world’s foremost authority on the Bolas spider, Ze Frank.
John Moralessays
Nah — doesn’t work on its own terms.
The GOOs are “someone else”, so if they’re imprisoned here, here they are.
KGsays
I fear there’s all too much evidence the GOOs are now wide awake and have installed their nominees in the White House and the Kremlin.
lakitha tolbertsays
4 Kaintukee Bob:
You should add the third option of ,”Can I kill It?”
Especially if the answer to the first two questions is No.
lanirsays
It’s okay. When the Great Old Ones finally wake up and notice us here they’ll be quite disturbed (amidst all the eating and general annihilation going on) that their neighborhood went downhill while they were snoozing.
I always thought that the Golgafrinchans simply quarantined us, but that idea makes sense as well. Reason #42 to forbid seismic airgun surveying.
Let sleeping gods lie.
Which would mean, in the event of aliens actually showing up, our role becomes the Great Old One’s jailers. The Star-Spawn of Cthulhu will not come in peace.
Nah, nobody communicates with us because they understand our psychology too well.
Humans (in general) when they see a new animal tend to have one of two thoughts: “Does it taste good” and “Can I fuck it”.
The answers (to both) in the alien’s cases is likely, “Yes, but you might die”
In short, we do not make good neighbors.
Sounds like a new wrapping narrative for the Greek titans. Old stories never die.
But if you’re going to be eaten first, Cthulhu would probably get some kind of crazy disease, which he’d want to avoid, so he wouldn’t do that, which is why the aliens wouldn’t know about him, which is why they would come here, but they might get some kind of crazy disease that they’d want to avoid, so they won’t, which is why you wouldn’t know about them….
In other words, this whole planet is The One Ring, and that’s why there are so many absolutely shitty people – evil eldritch magicks driving them insane!
Not that I can remember the name ( I thought it was Frymaman or whatever) but I always thought of the Monazuma response.
“White-skinned men in big wooden boats?”
We have to deal with our own monsters. No aliens to the rescue.
The theory that aliens want to keep the great old ones imprisoned on Earth is known as the Fermi-LaPorte hypothesis.
Richard Smith @10: pas mal.
It’s not us they’re avoiding, it’s those uncouth dolphins.
“Mostly harmless.”
Hey PZ. Knowing your newfound love for spiders, let me direct you to the world’s foremost authority on the Bolas spider, Ze Frank.
Nah — doesn’t work on its own terms.
The GOOs are “someone else”, so if they’re imprisoned here, here they are.
I fear there’s all too much evidence the GOOs are now wide awake and have installed their nominees in the White House and the Kremlin.
4 Kaintukee Bob:
You should add the third option of ,”Can I kill It?”
Especially if the answer to the first two questions is No.
It’s okay. When the Great Old Ones finally wake up and notice us here they’ll be quite disturbed (amidst all the eating and general annihilation going on) that their neighborhood went downhill while they were snoozing.