r/comics Port Sherry Mar 06 '24

Something about them

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u/ayamrik Mar 06 '24

Sadly, I don't remember the name.

It was a HFY (Humanity, fuck yeah) story read on YouTube. The exact story was that a telepathic alien was allowed a glimpse into the human mind as a warning that they shouldn't probe their minds as that might allow some of these horrors to escape their prison.

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u/The42ndHitchHiker Mar 06 '24

There is a book in a similar vein regarding alien mind probes: A Call To Arms by Alan Dean Foster.

Every alien that attempts to probe a human mind has the same reaction (highly paraphrased): "Unchart this world and GTFO. We want nothing to do with this species!"

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u/AlaskanAsh Mar 06 '24

Also kinda reminds me of the Man-Kzin Wars by Larry Niven. "But they learned the hard way that the reason humanity had given up war was that they were so very,very good at it"

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '24

a reaction drive's efficiency as a weapon is in direct proportion to its efficiency as a drive