sage: Although this is meant completely tongue-in-cheek, it is very revealing as to how we Earthlings might be viewed by others.
By Cate Matthews, Huffington Post – January 14, 2014 | Thanks to Golden Age of Gaia.
Warning: there may be humans about! Prepare to duck and cover as real life writer and filmmaker Tom Scott dissects all those things that make our species potentially unique and a hypothetical threat to intergalactic peace.
There is, of course, no actual Interstellar Safety Council (that we know of), but the analysis of our planet’s theoretical strengths and weaknesses is definitely interesting. We didn’t realize, for example, that 2 percent of our mass was made up of microorganisms — or that someone ate an airplane. Watch out, worlds.
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