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For some reason media likes to portray extra-terrestrials as intelligent enough to traverse the galaxy yet dumb enough to crash their ships as well, amirite?

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Well, to be honest it's pretty damn hard to crash into anything in space...

Mcgee0s avatar Mcgee0 Yeah You Are +9Reply

I get that. Humans are intelligent enough to design and manufacture cars, but individual humans are still dumb enough to crash them while trying to type on twitter.

murphy's law

@rotersscap1982 murphy's law

I'm not sure that argument really works here. One would imagine space-faring vessels to have multiple levels of redundancy and safety systems so it would be quite improbable to crash right as they arrive on a planet as opposed to at any other point in their journey

Impolsions avatar Impolsion Yeah You Are +4Reply

The aliens who fly the ship are not the same ones who built the engine.
Plenty of people drive cars, obviously the engineers who built them are intelligent, but the people who sit behind the wheels of those cars and don't indicate… yeah they're morons!

Also, let's face it. If the aliens were intelligent, they wouldn't be sent to earth. We're clearly being sent the B team.

sharmaji1301s avatar sharmaji1301 Yeah You Are +7Reply
@sharmaji1301 The aliens who fly the ship are not the same ones who built the engine. Plenty of people drive cars, obviously the...

I bet the B team is still pretty good. I think we're getting the recruits , this is there training mission

Cheytuflyas avatar Cheytuflya Yeah You Are +3Reply
@Cheytuflya I bet the B team is still pretty good. I think we're getting the recruits , this is there training mission

You wouldn't train someone on Earth, this is clearly a punishment assignment. The aliens who screw up are given missions here.

pobody's nerfect!

MetalDevils avatar MetalDevil Yeah You Are +6Reply
@Openeyes pobody's nerfect!

Lol. Or just blame whoever was piloting at the time.

Impolsions avatar Impolsion Yeah You Are +5Reply
@Openeyes pobody's nerfect!

i remember that whats this from

Nothing can go awry in extraterrestrial

Maybe our light pollution messes up their ship's sensors or something.

Impolsions avatar Impolsion Yeah You Are +6Reply

and also making them blue humans, or humans with rough foreheads, when realistically they'd probably look like crabs

Achilles982s avatar Achilles982 Yeah You Are +6Reply

I mean, we as a species are also capable of making cross-country road trips and having almost nothing go wrong, while also being dumb enough to drink and drive or crash in a ditch sober.

@Hatchadi I mean, we as a species are also capable of making cross-country road trips and having almost nothing go wrong...

We're also smart enough to fly landers to Mars and not coordinate metric vs imperial units, causing us to crash into the Martian surface. We are literally aliens who have crashed into another planet.

Cause it's the only way they'd visit us. If they're smart enough to traverse the cosmos they're smart enough to know not to come here on purpose.

It's never a sure thing how dense a planet's atmosphere is from the outside. We've only managed our local travel by building with the intention of surviving the crash landing written into the plan. Idgaf how smart your species is, it's not yet been proven that any level of sentience can reliably predict the unknown.

Honestly if humans could travel around the galaxy there would 100% be drunk flying accidents where someone warps into a star and destroys it on accident. Also, you know, technical failures

Mihneacuzinos avatar Mihneacuzino Yeah You Are +2Reply
@Mihneacuzino Honestly if humans could travel around the galaxy there would 100% be drunk flying accidents where someone warps...

Lol starwarping gone wrong. And yes I agree, some people don't even know that their cars need oil changes and other servicing

Impolsions avatar Impolsion Yeah You Are +11Reply
@Impolsion Lol starwarping gone wrong. And yes I agree, some people don't even know that their cars need oil changes and other...

To be fair the engine light in my car turned on, I drove another 100 miles and it turned off. So…

Yeah, ET life could be just microscopic

If aliens make it to earth it won't be by accident. They want something.

Manualhams avatar Manualham Yeah You Are +2Reply

If you create something like a superior spacecraft - things will happen. It wears out, it malfunctions, it becomes obsolete, etc. The intelligence of the operator doesn't override those truths.

Sewcrazy4catss avatar Sewcrazy4cats Yeah You Are +2Reply

The beings who drive them arnt the ones who build them

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