If you were a wandering space traveler and you had just arrived on the Earth's moon and started observing the goings-on down here, what part of our globe would most catch your attention? What area of the globe is kicking up the most dust? I bet North Korea looks weird at night, virtually completely blacked-out... If the Traveler could decipher the avalanche of electro-magnetic we broadcast, how confusing would that be?!
Would the Traveler see anything that impressed it? Explosions would probably catch its attention. As a species, we produce more explosions than is probably thought to be healthy among intelligent races. Maybe humanity is going through its Terrible Twos?
Would the Traveler be able to find anything worth emulating? Do we have anything to teach another Intelligence? Are we silly enough to get a pass based on how we tickle the funny bone of other Intelligences? Or is our pettiness, our cruelty, the stupidity behind how we treat each other enough to merit a call to Universal Exterminators?
What are the chances that they'd put me and you in some extraterrestrial zoo, where we'd keep the old species going? (Artie, Chris, Pistols... this last question is not directed at you.)
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They'd be laughing for sure, but not in a good way.
I'm not sure Traveler would be able to figure out which species is dominate on Earth. If you look at it from the outside, it could certainly seem (for instance) that us monkeyfolk are a slave species to the common housecat. After all, we feed them, make sure they have a warm lap to sleep on...
Ms Nibbles, if they can laugh, we might be able to get along with them, if the price is right.
Chris, they'd probably wonder why the cats never blow anyone up.
Any species in possession of intelligence would take one look at the horrible crimes we've committed against all living things on this planet and likely choose NOT to "keep the old species going".
Unless they're just as stupid and desperate for entertainment as we are.
You know, what really gets me is how good and moral and intelligent an individual human being can be, and how lousy and rotten we are in groups. As individuals, we're all pretty good people (for the most part) and wouldn't want war and stuff. But as a society, well...
It's a moot point.
If an alien lands on the moon, all they're going to notice is their own ass being handed to them by Zod, Non, and Ursa. I've seen the Richard Donner-directed Apollo footage, and not only is the moon a desolate, distant place, it's overrun by the Kryptonian army. And they're better than us, and presumably this alien, too. All we can do is kneel before Zod and pray for a hero to save us before it's too late.
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