Stephen Hawking says beware intelligent aliens.

[Urien]

Alien baaad. Human gooood.

 

[J-WO]

Alien baaad. Human gooood.

Now there's a message we probably shouldn't broadcast.

 

[Urien]

We already have. Complete with little butchers diagrams of the best cuts...




"Hello we're humans. Don't we look tasty?"

From the Pioneer spacecraft.

 

[J-WO]

Ever read a 2000ad short where the aliens who discover it resemble the thing on the left of the picture.

 

[J-WO]

Actually, the plaque reminds me of my grandmother's old adage-

'People who live in glass houses shouldn't practice nudism.'

 

[Urien]

How much practise does nudism need?

I missed the 2000AD story though... did it go well for us?

 

[ColdBurn]

Speculating on the nature of extraterrestrial intelligence is always fun. I read a thread on another forum where the author's premise was that the aliens were actually dumb as rocks. Because they had such a long history they eventually stumbled upon interstellar capability but though they know how to use it the technology is so ancient none of them really remembers how it works. When they arrive here they are frightened of us.

 

[Parson]

Actually this is a fairly common plot device. "Footfall" (Jerry Pournelle) comes to mind. It is also a small part of the plot of "Off Armageddon Reef" by David Weber.

 

[ColdBurn]

Right, Parson, only this is a comedy.

 

[J-WO]

How much practise does nudism need?

Loads, if you're aiming to make it your day job.

As for the 2000AD story, by the time the spiky-circle aliens (they are only seen in the last frame, being the twist as it were) find our message and arrive on Earth, we are running around like primitives. We kind of look like the humans on the plaque, ie- wearing next to nothing.

Spikys say- 'It seems our galactic brothers have vanished! There's nothing here but these pesky vermin!' They keep accidently impaling us on their spikes.

So, no, we don't do too well.

(Still, good example of a story that only truly works as a comic)