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?
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Well, to be honest it's pretty damn hard to crash into anything in space...
And they can build an interstellar vehicle but not a body scanner. Still have to do an anal probe.
loool
Maybe the anal probers are the alien hipsters, like those people that still.use typewriters.
I mean body scanners get the job done, but an anal probe is just so much more authentic.
And pleasurable.
They want to probe.
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
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
the plot demands it.
Of course, the plot, it all makes sense now!
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.
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.
Makes sense . We get the outcasts/problem child. Explains anal probing
pobody's nerfect!
Nice stroke Pam
Lol. Or just blame whoever was piloting at the time.
i remember that whats this from
Nothing can go awry in extraterrestrial
Maybe our light pollution messes up their ship's sensors or something.
and also making them blue humans, or humans with rough foreheads, when realistically they'd probably look like crabs
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.
I cannot disagree lol
Maybe they're all drunk on sour milk.
(somebody please be old enough to get that reference)
Remember! I can still try to sing the theme in tanktonese
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.
Honestly if humans could travel around the galaxy there would 100% be drunk flying
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.
Well some people like to visit the zoo :P
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
Lol starwarping gone wrong. And yes I agree, some people don't even know that their cars need oil changes and other servicing
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.
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.
The beings who drive them arnt the ones who build them