auntblabby wrote:
it wouldn't surprise me if some ET federation quarantined humanity. what good are we? we can't even control our own planet for Christ's sake.
We've got you right on... er... under our thumbs. You've had a good run of it anyways and we certainly have enjoyed making funny formations in your crops, bizarre mutilations on livestock, abductions, flying saucer appearances (flitting static: "can you seriously believe they think we fly those, Ted? quit messing with that RC remote Ted you can play with your saucer later"), but most of all the many, many probings.
We will certainly regret it when we have to suck this rock clean of biological elements and compounds, after all we'll have to wait hundreds of years in between systems until we come along our next play things. As for the climate we could care less, it won't matter with all of the atmosphere gone. But if that gives you something to think about and work on until you are all atomized in approximately eleven hundred, how do you call it... days, then have at it.
Crack... whir... white noise for a few moments... "Ted, where did you put the probe? Yes you idiot, the three foot long, green, glowing tube! You've been smoking from it? Oh I swear to Lugnub in heaven that I need a new partner... For Lugnub's sake Ted don't have another toke that's not what you think it is! Well he's still ignoring me and getting that giant slug of his high again, I guess we'll have to wait."
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