You are awakened from your sleep by a weird chirping.
You look outside, and see an unusual looking creature outside your house or towerblock.
What do you do?
Ignore the linked description and book, I just wanted to pick an alien design no one had any preconceptions about.
I’m an American, so I shoot it.
I shoot the robins.
I HATE those damn robins!
(And I don’t know what a “towerblock” is…Unless it’s a Lego.)
I’m Canadian, so I apologize to it.
I’d want to know what it’s reading.
There’s something to that… Any alien civilization is going to know that first-contact missions are damnably dangerous. Getting shot is part of the risk.
If this first-contact specialist is so careless as to approach a dwelling without sufficient precautions, he has no great expectation of not being shot.
He would have been much wiser to have sent in a robot drone of some sort, which he can consider expendable.
I wouldn’t shoot…but I seriously would not blame someone very much if they did. I’d just take a hell of a lot of pictures, while jabbing 9-1-1 as fast as I can.
Hide!
Everyone knows that this is why you should have some Reese’s Pieces on hand. Take pics while it’s eating the candy.
Well, they might be sufficiently ignorant to not think earthlings could have guns or sufficiently smart to carry portable forcefields.
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Ringing the authorities makes sense, but I’m not sure what they’d believe.
Get some REAL evidence like photos or maybe his autograph and think how rich your going to be selling this stuff.
I go out to it after I set my camera up on a tripod to record things.
Counterpoint: Hugs!
I call 9-1-1.
The’ll take me some place where I don’t see little green men.
This is why you need really good windows that seal properly, to block out weird alien chirping that otherwise might interrupt your sleep.
They can just wait their turn at the feeder along with everything else.
Perhaps they’ve already begun an invasion.
Well, its clearly non-native and possibly invasive ------- so in PA that means no closed season or bag limit!!! Please pass me my shells.
Brit-speak for a multi-story (typically high-rise) apartment/condo building.
I walk out, kiss and embrace it, and declare my undying love.
Why take a selfie with it, of course. This is 2015.
I assume it’s an MIT student prank and go back to sleep.
