Alt text: humans worldwide looking up into the celestial vault of stars a million light years away, separated from Earth by the deadly cold and emptiness of space: I bet there are guys up there to form social bonds with
What’s this you’ve said to me, my good friend? Ill have you know I graduated top of my class in conflict resolution, and Ive been involved in numerous friendly discussions, and I have over 300 confirmed friends. I am trained in polite discussions and I’m the top mediator in the entire neighborhood. You are worth more to me than just another target. I hope we will come to have a friendship never before seen on this Earth. Don’t you think you might be hurting someone’s feelings saying that over the internet? Think about it, my friend. As we speak I am contacting my good friends across the USA and your P.O. box is being traced right now so you better prepare for the greeting cards, friend. The greeting cards that help you with your hate. You should look forward to it, friend. I can be anywhere, anytime for you, and I can calm you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my chess set. Not only am I extensively trained in conflict resolution, but I have access to the entire group of my friends and I will use them to their full extent to start our new friendship. If only you could have known what kindness and love your little comment was about to bring you, maybe you would have reached out sooner. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now we get to start a new friendship, you unique person. I will give you gifts and you might have a hard time keeping up. You’re finally living, friend.
This song has very similar vibes
Help me, please.
The absurd amount of media in which humans become friends with aliens will always warm my heart
Never thought of that! What if the aliens are not social animals and think we’re fucking bizarre? The only social animals on their planet are the lower beasts.
It’s funny, from a human perspective, it’s hard to picture a species that produced space-faring technology without a significant social structure to support it.
Dad was a huge sci-fy reader and said the same. He also said that whoever we run into out there will have evolved as the top predator on their planet. So we might meet Predator or it might be like Deathworlders, where Earth is considered unihabitable by alien races and we badasses show up.
The first part of the story is a solid classic. I wouldn’t go much past it.
https://deathworlders.com/books/deathworlders/chapter-00-kevin-jenkins-experience/
We are gonna swap so many recipes.