I'm no alienologist, but I'm pretty sure that's not a cave.

mycodesucks , 1 hour ago (edited 1 hour ago)

Even if this were true, these aliens would be ridiculously stupid.

Alien A: “What usable technology and advancements could we hand down to a society of people that has just barely invented writing and is trying to figure out how to use metal?”

Alien B: “How about medicinal plants? Lessons about cleanliness and health? Advanced mathematics?”

Alien A: “No! Give them images of airplanes and flying machines!”

I think it’s no small coincidence that the knowledge these aliens supposedly passed on just HAPPENS to coincide with the simplest idiot’s concept of the most important advances in human knowledge.

jordanlund , 5 hours ago

ACK! ACK, ACK ACK! ACK!

FlyingSquid OP , 5 hours ago

The Internet Archive has scans of a book containing the original card set the movie is based on with annotations. It’s lots of fun.

archive.org/details/…/2up

jordanlund , 5 hours ago

Yeah, Topps did a re-release of the card set with some mini comics in, 1992 I want to say?

Always my favorite:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/959b4402-73b1-4d17-b35d-a96842d29d3b.jpeg

FlyingSquid OP , 5 hours ago

1994. That is also on the archive elsewhere!

archive.org/details/…/2up

Sanctus , 5 hours ago

As we all know you have to be humanoid to be smort.

ChicoSuave , 5 hours ago

The dumbest part of this “conspiracy” is that these are the same people who would find an inscription that says “Wednesdays will repeat every 16 years” and try to make a case that the repeating years is part of something bigger while missing the fact that Wednesday existed.