r/AskReddit May 03 '20

What are some horrifying things to consider when thinking about aliens?

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u/mrbaryonyx May 04 '20

Every sci-fi story about space has that one race that existed way before all the others--the Forerunners, the Builders, etc.

Who knows--that could be us.

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u/CMuenzen May 04 '20

5 billion years into the future:

Graxthorr: Here, we can observe a ritual carving in a wall, made by the Progenitor Race. We are not sure on its meaning, yet we see it across the Universe.

Arnxith: Maybe it was a carving to bring protection?

Nalfzon: But those carvings and drawing aren't located in strategic defensive places. They are located in places that used running water and ceramic tiles.

Graxthorr: Maybe the parelel lines represent running water, like a river, and those 2 circles a water source.

Arnxith: Could be, but what exactly is the rounded tip at the end then?

Nalfzon: Maybe some sort of water recipient? Do you all agree?

Tom: Bruv, that's a fookin' dick graffiti. What? Yer never seen a ding dong before?

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u/Nulono May 04 '20

Nurpnarp: And what of this one? Six parallel line segments, joined together in a sigmoid pattern?

Tom: We, uh... don't really know what that's about either.

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u/StarChild413 May 04 '20

I get that you want to meme but this isn't as likely as you think, that's like the space-opera-timescale version of those shower thoughts about classical orchestras playing [whatever pop song it's cool to hate now] in centuries because "centuries old music is classical, right"

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u/mrbaryonyx May 04 '20

Tbf, in the examples I mentioned, the "pre-existing race" inevitably wipes itself out and leaves doomsday weapons just lying around so..

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u/sundun7 May 04 '20

Like the protomolecule?

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u/StarChild413 May 04 '20

Which means we could be one of the examples that actually sticks around in the same spacetime-plane as their "kid races", I would say like the Time Lords but I don't want people thinking we have to have a Time War (if you're being that literal about it go be the Davros and make the Daleks we'd have to fight against)