# 4 reasons space aliens are stupid **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 16, 2002, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/4-reasons-space-aliens-are-stupid/124144 "2002-08-16T03:14:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2002, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/4-reasons-space-aliens-are-stupid/124144/21 "2002-08-16T23:08:08Z")
Hey, what’s wrong with walking around naked? No one on Barsoom tromps around with clothes on, and anal probing is unheard of. We don’t do much kidnapping ourselves, we’re too busy killing each other and dealing with Humans that transport themselves to our planet and marry the hot naked women. ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2002, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/4-reasons-space-aliens-are-stupid/124144/22 "2002-08-17T04:00:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by El Elvis Rojo \* > \*\*And shit, all it takes to kill the aliens in Signs is a fucking glass of water. \*\* If that’s a major spoiler I’m pissed. And the alians would have to be stupid to come billions of miles to observe a life form which chooses to spend much of it’s time watching “reality” television (while sitting on their asses pigging out btw…) and contemplating who’d they’d vote off an island. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2002, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/4-reasons-space-aliens-are-stupid/124144/23 "2002-08-17T06:10:31Z")
And the alien abduction procedure seems to have a few flaws…for one thing, if people can have their erased memories restored so easily, why don’t the aliens just use full anesthesia? Hell, even a BLINDFOLD? Besides the fact that they need to have live subjects for their anatomical research, and apparently can’t just send a saucer down to abduct a copy of “Gray’s Anatomy” from a bookstore. And that, since they need live subjects for their research, and want to return them alive, AND keep their abducting operation a secret, they don’t just abduct drunken drifters, or tribesmen from a village in the middle of Brazil or New Guinea, or something. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2002, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/4-reasons-space-aliens-are-stupid/124144/24 "2002-08-17T07:28:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by El Elvis Rojo \* > \*\* And let’s not forget the aliens from Mars Attacks. \*\* I must be the only person on earth who liked Mars Attacks (still have no idea why everyone hates it), but I thought that was part of the joke (as well as an homage to “Earth vs. the Flying saucers”) ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2002, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/4-reasons-space-aliens-are-stupid/124144/25 "2002-08-17T11:54:04Z")
I wonder what alien porn is like. No, on second thought I don’t think I really want to know. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2002, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/4-reasons-space-aliens-are-stupid/124144/26 "2002-08-17T12:41:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Osiris \* > \*\*I wonder what alien porn is like. > > No, on second thought I don’t think I really want to know. \*\* To quote Coldfire: For the love of God, no links. ---
**Author:** ![loupdebois](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e495f1/32.png) [@loupdebois](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/loupdebois)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2002, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/4-reasons-space-aliens-are-stupid/124144/27 "2002-08-17T12:59:37Z")
Continuing on the anal-probe subject… ever wonder if they just can’t get the hang of our anatomy? Maybe abductees are the victims of a horribly failing group of alien _dentists…_ I’ve been up all night. Stop looking at me funny. ---
**Author:** ![TelcontarStorm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ab097/32.png) [@TelcontarStorm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TelcontarStorm)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2002, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/4-reasons-space-aliens-are-stupid/124144/28 "2002-08-17T13:37:12Z")
What I want to know is , why can’t they just leave the rabbit alone? You’d think after all this time of being outsmarted and outmanuvered, they’d learn?!? Marvin: Go for the stupid redknecks as they are not a danger to you or your ship. but if you have any brains whatsoever, Leave the Rascaly Rabbit alone! (inspired by Looney Tunes thread) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/4-reasons-space-aliens-are-stupid/124144.md?page=1)