I mean, assuming an alien evolves via a similarly Darwinian experience, you’d expect a species ( especially one that is stable enough to send people to explore other worlds) to have mitigated or never had an issue where it fouled it’s own nest / overate to the point of ill health / used substances that caused organ failure / etc.
But we do all of these things and more - both on individual and societal levels to the point that many of us think it may be too late to save ourselves.
The fact that if you spent 15 years posting on a message board that automatically makes you King of the message board and other posters will literally be afraid of confronting you on the message boards even if you’re completely wrong. This happens on literally every single message board I’ve ever been part of.
The problem is, the explanation would cause the aliens either to dust off and mark our planet for permanent quarantine, or to just shrug and destroy us.
Wait, you mean you are sure KK is not an alien herself?
Speaking of presidents, the last one would be an interesting case to try to explain too. If the aliens get that, they may understand a lot about humans. Except, perhaps, laughter.
Sir, we investigated the oceans first and discovered Earthlings there. We remain puzzled by their relationship with the planet’s water.
They move about on machines known as “cruise ships”, but with no apparent transport purpose. While cloaked, we observed their behavior up close and can make no sense of it. They seem to abhor the water around them and construct the machines to ensure no contact with it. Then for reasons unknown, they have built large tanks of water on the ship’s decks, within which they splash around. But when perfectly good water begins falling from the sky (a regular occurrence on Earth) they immediately flee below decks to individual tiny boxes. And here it gets weird, they disrobe and enter a tiny sub-box within their individual box and stand under pipes which dump water on their heads. We remain confused, and humbly request permission to try another planet.
The book The Three Body Problem had a scene in which the Aliens learned that humans have no problem lying. These aliens were incapable of communicating false thoughts, so they found the very idea of lying extremely disconcerting.
So they didn’t understand the difference between something they thought was true and something that was factually false? Or they were incapable of believing something that was false? Sounds more like the latter.
Cribbed from Andy Weir’s latest book, but it’s something he talks about in interviews promoting his book, so I don’t think it’s much of a spoiler:
Humans hide all of their bodily functions. We excrete in private, we practice reproduction in private, even minor excretions like flatulence, burps, or spit are considered uncouth to do around others. We avoid talking about all these bodily functions as much as possible in polite company. Except eating, when it comes to eating, we want to do it with others, we even make arrangements to gather as many together as possible to eat together for special events. We can’t stop talking about it, and discussions of the items that we stick into our faces take up a substantial amount of our time and our vocabulary.
So, is this what you’re saying? That group of people is destroying the properties, the communities and engaging in physical fights because they are …angry, unhappy and showing their frustration? That’s hard for us to grasp. What are they frustrated about?
Their team had lost the game in which they are kicking an inflated spheroid with their less nimble body parts and trying to score points by placing it into a goalpost.
