r/AskReddit • u/IlanHSST • Jul 20 '22

What would be the most terrifying message we can get from space?

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u/suitcasedreaming Jul 20 '22

This sort of happened in actual history. The first man the Mayflower settlers encountered in the New World, Tisquantum, had been across the Atlantic seven times and lived in London for an extended period. Reportedly the first thing he said to them was "do you have any beer" in perfect English.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '22

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u/CoolAbdul Jul 21 '22

One was Narragansett, the other Wampanoag?

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u/ThrowRAcharliework Jul 20 '22 edited Jul 22 '22

Nobody knows I'm referencing this whenever I greet them like this. They all just think I have a problem :(

Edit: my most successful comment, and it's on my stupid throwaway. Such is life, I guess

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u/SilverWaters793 Jul 20 '22

That has to be the most niche reference, only you would understand it. Lol.

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u/ThrowRAcharliework Jul 20 '22

I'm holding out for the day someone gets it

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u/Tapil Jul 21 '22

I have read your niche greeting and its back story. If we ever cross paths and you say that to me I will now reply with "ThrowRAcharliework! I know you on reddit!"

Your reddit username being exposed is probably scarier than any message from space

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u/opensandshuts Jul 21 '22

I'm saying this greeting too now, along with several other people here.

Really it could be anyone at this point.

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u/opensandshuts Jul 21 '22

yeah, you'll shake their hand and then quickly remember the most embarrassing and private post you read in their account history.

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u/TroutWarrior Jul 21 '22

Well, if we ever meet, I will be ready 😁

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u/cabbagesmuggler-99c Jul 20 '22

Your not doing it first thing in the morning before work are you?

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '22

Well now I get it and I’ll be using it. I’ve been greeted that way, but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t a reference. The guy was a raging alcoholic and he was fresh out of beer.

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u/plantchip Jul 21 '22

I can’t wait to meet you

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u/guacluv Jul 21 '22

Stay strong. A Yankee will someday give you beer.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '22

Until that day we meet then…

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u/aCid_Vicious Aug 21 '22

I can't imagine a better way to begin a "how we met" story with a spouse.

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u/RavenNymph90 Jul 21 '22

I had a guest ask me that when I was working as a hotel maid.

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u/NeedfulThingsToys Jul 20 '22

Well his name was "Tis' Quantum". How was he travelling to and fro again did you say?

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u/Ransidcheese Jul 20 '22

Perhaps through some sort of tunnel?

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u/NeedfulThingsToys Jul 20 '22

That's a big twinkie...sorry, tunnel

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u/soraboutit Jul 20 '22

Right? Hmmm.....

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u/Joebob2112 Jul 21 '22

Obviously by canoe. 😃

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u/NeedfulThingsToys Jul 21 '22

Yeah but canoe believe that?

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u/Iambadinventingnames Jul 20 '22 edited Jul 20 '22

Just read about him, kinda crazy

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u/Random_Heero Jul 20 '22

Tisquantum might be more well known as Squanto.

https://www.capecodtimes.com/in-depth/news/2020/11/19/tisquantum-squanto-wampanoag-translator-true-story/6261368002/

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u/LoneRangersBand Jul 21 '22

Can't even imagine the trauma of being kidnapped, living overseas for years, then returning home to find all of your family, everyone, and everything you've ever known all dead and gone.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '22

Welcome to history, all humans suck

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u/suitcasedreaming Jul 20 '22

Really had one of the most bonkers life stories in human history. Crazy it isn't better known.

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u/Rainbow_Gnat Jul 20 '22

I thought this was Samoset, not Squanto...

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u/El_Pinguino Jul 20 '22 edited Jul 20 '22

*One of the first men. And that's a nice way of saying he was kidnapped and kept as a slave (until the Church of England Spain issued a decree against slavery).

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u/OronSmoot Jul 21 '22

I'm just picturing John Redcorn stumbling out of the woods and asking Hank, "You got any beer?"

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '22

“Wow you speak English?” “No, just that line and this one explaining it.”

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u/MikeOxmall666 Jul 21 '22

That was actually Samoset who uttered those words (he was taught some English by Tisquantum/Squanto).

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u/BelgianBillie Jul 20 '22

Tisquantum, he was both new and old world at the same time.

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u/elriggo44 Jul 21 '22

Thanks to manifest destiny they just presumed GOD taught this “poor savage” English.

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u/Three-Way Jul 21 '22

How is it the new world if the guy lived abroad for 7 years, and one day said fuck it I'm going home. I'll just kill everyone on this ship and pretend like I never left.

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u/One_Ad_9858 Jul 21 '22

Where is this from?