“What Are We, In The Eyes Of Alien Probers?”

Tuesday, January 26, 2010 - 10:56 in Biology & Nature

or perhaps "What Alien Probers Conclude Humans Are” When aliens come to Earth to investigate life here, they don’t simply beam up a specimen and start probing. (And they’re also, by the way, not disproportionately interested in the anus.) Only a novice prober would do a simple beam-and-probe, and would surely get a quick rap on a proboscis from the instructor. The problem with abducting an animal of interest, all by itself, is that you can’t understand an animal without an appreciation of the environment the animal inhabits. read more

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