There are only two responses to this: 1) Tell them BEWARE and to wait 4-8 years to make contact with us OR 2) PLEASE COME SAVE US NOW!!! - ThreadSky

melodyc.bsky.social • 2 days ago

There are only two responses to this:

1) Tell them BEWARE and to wait 4-8 years to make contact with us

OR

2) PLEASE COME SAVE US NOW!!!

Comments

lilenikoloski.bsky.social•2 days ago

Makes sense.
Only algae can beat algae government 🤨

ennove.bsky.social•2 days ago

Well, unless they have super-intelligent phytoplankton, we probably shouldn't get our hopes up either way.

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/16/nx-s1-5364805/signs-life-alien-planet-biosignatures-exoplanet

sciencetruth.bsky.social•2 days ago

3) Signs of life does not mean intelligent life and intelligent life does not mean advanced intelligence.
120 light years means that even at the speed of light (which is not possible) it would take 120 years to get here.
RELAAAAAX!

melodyc.bsky.social•2 days ago

120 years by known science. And as we know, we keep learning how much we don’t know.
And, of course, intelligent by what standard? Staying away from our species could be the key one!

sciencetruth.bsky.social•2 days ago

No, 120 years at the speed of light. That is 186,000 miles per second! Fastest manmade object is 394,000 miles per hour. At that speed it would take over 200,000 years to get there!
Mankind is not going anywhere and no aliens are coming here.

melodyc.bsky.social•2 days ago

Unless…

sciencetruth.bsky.social•2 days ago

There is no unless, these are the facts!

bluedot-rednorth.bsky.social•1 day ago

If they are advanced enough to know about us there's been a no-fly zone on our solar system for 40 centuries. "The third planet is full of armies killing each other - just stay away."

compactlaw.bsky.social•1 day ago

Does Trump know about it? 1. Will ship innocent people there without due process or 2. Impose tariffs on them.

michigan-forged.bsky.social•2 days ago

Well, if it's 120 light years away then any contact we made would take 120 years to get there, and another 120 to get back.

jpackendorff.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yes, and if they are spying on us they are currently being told that Japan just won a war over Russia, that there is a new place called ‘Las Vegas’, and that Sweden let Norway go independent without knowing about all that oil.

buddybearsecurity.bsky.social•2 days ago

//looks at the past 3-5k years of history. Yeah, I don’t think they should be in a hurry to talk to us 👀

hodgavic.bsky.social•2 days ago

Have they announced Tariffs on K2-18b yet?

ojtphd.bsky.social•2 days ago

lowresgamr.bsky.social•2 days ago

If they show up and I'm the first person they meet only to hear "take me to your leader" I'm doing the father to a potential partner for their daughter thing. Just sitting them at a kitchen table asking "what are your intentions with my leader?"

cassimro04.bsky.social•2 days ago

To bad they can't find intelligent life on ours.

anarx.bsky.social•1 day ago

There was some 120 years ago but social media has taken it all away…

curt-homan.bsky.social•2 days ago

Even if they left right away, it would be well over a century before they could get here.

pixelhacker.bsky.social•2 days ago

Can they look for life or humanity within our president? Not sure it can be detected.

koopsr.bsky.social•1 day ago

Door #2 please.

alkisky.bsky.social•2 days ago

You may be underestimating how far away 120 million light years is.

wellfed.bsky.social•2 days ago

Damn…you’d just willingly expose them to neoliberalism like that?

twredfish.bsky.social•2 days ago

Won't matter.

Trump will tariff them too, then send them to prison. They are aliens.

jaded-bunny.bsky.social•2 days ago

Please let them have interplanetary travel and far superior technology, experience and knowledge.

melodyc.bsky.social•2 days ago

But that means they’d NEVER come here!

kyotiwiles.bsky.social•1 day ago

There is a third option. Take us with you.

varricschesthair.bsky.social•2 days ago

3) Tell all the Republicans there’s only rich white people on this distant star and they all leave on one of Elmo’s rockets. If it blows it, well…. :: shrug ::

blackheart24601.bsky.social•2 days ago

The second one!

SOS!

ACK ACK ACK ACK!

supervenient.bsky.social•2 days ago

"...and pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space, 'cause there's bugger-all down here on Earth."

--Eric Idle for Monty Python, "The Meaning of Life", 1983

profjabbott.bsky.social•2 days ago

Well if we sent a message today and they replied immediately we'd get it in 248 years.

redwitch2.bsky.social•2 days ago

Maybe they could take the Orange Messiah back to Heaven so he can build a tower there..

sparxxx.bsky.social•1 day ago

Watch 3 body problem before selecting option 2... Having said that, I'll take option 2.

hikingwnc.bsky.social•1 day ago

Please come save us now

hopehimars.bsky.social•1 day ago

Not interested

jamesossipov.bsky.social•2 days ago

Im going with 2

unkthemonk.bsky.social•2 days ago

I vote get here now. I need a new season of earth 2. This one has me drinking too much.

hippi750.bsky.social•2 days ago

Elon and Trump and Conservatives should all go check it out

scottishshiba.bsky.social•1 day ago

If they land in America and ask to be taken to your leader….

rhestondavis.bsky.social•2 days ago

I like to imagine they're like intergalactic firefighters sitting around w/coffee. Our distress signal comes in, someone checks it, and says, "Oh my god, Frank, LOOK at this! It's a five-alarm! Crap, go warm up the engines, we may need to mass-abduct them for their own safety!"

mortdelapeur.bsky.social•1 day ago

If they detect red hats then there's no intelligent life there.

mr-nightshade.bsky.social•2 days ago

To be fair, I can't imagine alien overlords being that much worse than the billionaire overlords we're stuck with now.

auslandre.bsky.social•2 days ago

akconiferious.bsky.social•2 days ago

Elon should get a ship organized to leave tomorrow, take Bezos, Trumpo the KKKlown, Mike Johnson, Just Don't Vance with, and as many MAGA as they think they will need for food with them..

lasty313.bsky.social•1 day ago

It is 1901 AD to them on our planet. Our troubles for the modern day, have barely started. 4-8 years, will change virtually nothing. Tell them to wait almost 90.

nerfherder76.bsky.social•1 day ago

With any luck they've already fired a giant tungsten pole at us at near light speed

menacef1.bsky.social•1 day ago

Given that it’ll take 120 years for any message to get to them, I’d say we’re probably doomed!

sailebed.bsky.social•2 days ago

🏆

russellengland.bsky.social•1 day ago

skindiverhi.bsky.social•2 days ago

Heeeeeeeelp !!!

sweetiesue1111.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'd definitely warn them off....

absoluteliberty.bsky.social•2 days ago

LOL. Well if their minds are anything like primate minds like ours, then their too busy royally screwing themselves too to be too busy to inherit our mess

rdegr.bsky.social•2 days ago

We are observing the reason for the Fermi paradox.

pomeroon.bsky.social•2 days ago

Please watch this first before you do anything:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13016388/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_the%25203%2520problem#:~:text=All%20topics-,3%20Body%20Problem,-TV%20Series

shakerstu.bsky.social•1 day ago

3) they make contact with the civilised world and ignore the USA.

flyguy1966.bsky.social•2 days ago

Plague Planet, don't come anywhere near us!! The rich would explote them just like they do the poor here or sell the poor to them.

karlmelnyk.bsky.social•1 day ago

Hi Earthicans! #Aliens 👽 here....

leftyairlinepilot.bsky.social•2 days ago

3 body problem please…

projectspacetime.bsky.social•2 days ago

It's 120 ly from Earth. That is unimaginably far by any standard we care to use. Sadly, we don't live in the Star Trek universe where it would be fully accessible in a matter of days.

michigan-forged.bsky.social•1 day ago

Well, the milky way is 87,000 light years across so by Galaxy standard it's technically quite close. (I know that's not what you meant ha ha)

thegreyprophet.bsky.social•2 days ago

I understand the context BUT neither message would be wise, if dealing with intelligent and highly civilized life. Until humanity has risen from its fallen state, it remains unprepared for such "contact"...WE WOULD NOT SURVIVE IT.

unfortunateinpa.bsky.social•1 day ago

I've got my Sub-Etha Sens-O-Matic, aka the Electronic Thumb, and my towel, the most important item an intergalactic hitchhiker can possess, and I'm ready to go!

dodgezen.bsky.social•2 days ago

Too late.

steventreebaxter.bsky.social•2 days ago

Why the excitement, if we don't have the technology to get there? Or do we?

melodyc.bsky.social•2 days ago

Or do THEY?

steventreebaxter.bsky.social•2 days ago

Ahh, good point. All they need to be is a few volts brighter than us and they could be hovering silently over our homes tonight.

drmommasays.bsky.social•2 days ago

I vote to send the SOS now! We are in an all hands on deck situation!

laz1960.bsky.social•2 days ago

Please do not make contact. We are not civilized yet in this world

jannymp.bsky.social•2 days ago

akajuhlz.bsky.social•2 days ago

They also determined that the inhabitants prohibit right turns on red.

amberlink.bsky.social•2 days ago

We have no intelligent life here, so that's all good.

nonameindy.bsky.social•2 days ago

Why would they save us when so many of us are derivative 🤭

gallifrey-thirteen.bsky.social•1 day ago

Well. Ok, how about we go in even on a third option?

Oh and I don't think anyone will bother you lot while you do this whatever *this* is. Not even the Daleks. It's like a show on four for them... They're rooting for the orange one though.

terry815.bsky.social•2 days ago

If aliens say “Take me to your litre,” we’ll know they use the metric system.

sadenala1.bsky.social•2 days ago

Good One😂😂😂

snark66.bsky.social•1 day ago

Rule number one.

When they say "take us to your leader" it has to be Dolly Parton.

drroyer.bsky.social•2 days ago

Read the Xenogenesis trilogy by Octavia Bulter, ver moving series about humans being saved by an interstellar race.

melodyc.bsky.social•2 days ago

Oh honey, you’re talking to a Black sci fi writer. Octavia has been my mentor and inspiration!

boldnewme.bsky.social•2 days ago

Seriously, if intelligent life is watching Earth like it’s reality TV, they must be thinking “let’s give this season a few more episodes before we decide whether to make contact.”

We’re not exactly putting our best foot forward right now.

rikkitrevi.bsky.social•2 days ago

If…we discover a peaceably inhabited planet, we’ll have to do more than sit in the corner with a dunce cap on.

theworldsux427.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'd definitely be sending a distress signal.

kugino1994.bsky.social•2 days ago

someone needs to send the "come conquer us, we can't save ourselves" message...and hopefully no pacifist receives it

naomi1201.bsky.social•1 day ago

We clearly ain’t the ones they checking for

nancysknotsandlace.bsky.social•1 day ago

3) go back and time and make musk and trumps mothers sterile.

shininghill.bsky.social•2 days ago

They’ll be here before you know it. We are gonna be headed for a tough time in January of 27

josephwesker.bsky.social•2 days ago

We're destroying our own planet, ppl in the fucking U.S. has devolved into illiterate cultist imperialist Dipshits that outnumbers any sane / intellectually sufficient Americans left.
All I'm hoping to know abt this alleged finding (not from algae) is if they're evolved / smart, or unevolved / dumb

brianhill53703.bsky.social•2 days ago

They would have been able to get some early radio signals by now, if they were strong enough to travel that far through whatever might be in the way.

They'll be getting our early television soon, which isn't really a great look for us, but it's too late to do anything about it.

bigbunny420.bsky.social•1 day ago

It was algae so they probably gonna wait 800000 years to come visit

clifftaf.bsky.social•2 days ago

It’ll take 240 years for us to send an S.O.S to them and get a response. Still, that gives us a better chance than depending on the Supreme Court to save our democracy.

stargazerxxx.bsky.social•1 day ago

I choose option 3: please safe some of us now but beware who you choose.

geekydad123.bsky.social•2 days ago

If it's life, it's likely ocean-based. Maybe we should send a message warning them not to leave the water.
(And the "Please help us now" is generally not a wise idea if you've read the Three Body Problem...)

yitzi2.bsky.social•2 days ago

I think when they say "life" they mean bacteria (and they're not sure about that).

Not aliens we can talk to.

dpengelly.bsky.social•2 days ago

Tell them we have two specimens for them to pick up. Keep them as long as you need to.

nihlish.bsky.social•2 days ago

3 body problem?

nickengineer.bsky.social•1 day ago

It would appear that in this case. We, are the Trisolarans

john-f-mccarthy.bsky.social•2 days ago

They were/are only ~4.3 light years away and it was still going to take a couple hundred years to get here.

This is 120 light years away.

nihlish.bsky.social•2 days ago

My comment was in response to the please come save us now portion of the OP and how that worked out in the book.

lyricalgangster01.bsky.social•2 days ago

Exactly !!

ftd1969.bsky.social•2 days ago

Oh please, I have been asking since I was a kid, take me now! And, now, you bet I want to go!

xanthespace.bsky.social•1 day ago

Considering problems *outside* of America, I don't see why they should wait for Americans to sort out their politics. Either come save or don't.

misterlou.bsky.social•1 day ago

3) humans with orange skin are the yummiest.

howwehuman.bsky.social•1 day ago

“Remember kids, Earth and humans are what happens when you don’t learn from your mistakes.” Said the alien parent, their tone a mix of warning and pitty as they lock the doors on their spaceships and keep hurriedly moving through space.

vulcant1369.bsky.social•2 days ago

False flag , this is a distraction from what’s happening here in America .

melodyc.bsky.social•2 days ago

Well TBH folks are already distracted by the ridiculous whiplash amounts of illegal executive orders, stupid press conferences and whack-a-mole policies. What’s an inhabited exoplanet or two?