Joke's on them, that's my kink.
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That's what the feds say. Always pretending they're aliens.
The animals know there is a weird device there, they just sniff at it and keep going. Humans would probably investigate weird out of place things, especially in cities and more dense areas.
the aliens judging the alien porn I watch:
So aliens are watching me jerk off to femdom? Good, I want them to see.
By extension, ufo and alien abduction stories may be likened to animals trying to get others to believe they saw a tree flash a brilliant light late at night.
It's called Dark Matter. C'mon, what's more likely, 85% of the universe is completely unobservable by chance? Or by design?
Any post-scarcity civilization that advances past Prime Directive territory just quantum-shifts half a dimension to the left so they can all hang out together without bothering anyone else.
Aliens don't judge you, though. No judgemental species can collaborate long enough to go Dark, you either evolve past those primitive instincts or self-destruct.
Which is probably why they haven't tried to make contact. "Oh look! It's a planet full of fundamentalist chimps with nuclear weapons" "should we pop over and say hi?" "Nah, fuck that noise!"
This is a topic in the 3 body problem series of books. The aliens have photons (?) that spy on everything the humans do so the humans have no way of planning against their attack without them knowing. The humans assign a few people to make plans with no oversight and without telling anyone else their plan.
Highly recommend the books.
photons (?)
Sophon
That's the one, and the humans making plans were called wallfacers.
Sorry I wasn't sober when writing that comment last night.
judging
So when the hell do we find out the results from the judging? What can we win?
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Yes, we are. Please stop masturbating. Thanks.
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Unless these aliens can break the laws of physics their cameras will produce heat and have to send signals somewhere. So we'll be able to detect them.
Humans didn't even have the technology to observe most of the eletromagnegtic spectrum for like practically all of human history apart from the recent hundred of years or so, bold of you to assume there isn't higher form of techology that's undetectable to us. I mean, the North Sentinese and other uncontacted tribes around the world still can't even fanthom that we are talking to each other using radiowaves in the air.
There is this sci-fi novel called Three Body Problem and
spoiler
the aliens used a high tech AI supercomputer called the "Sophons" that can be invisible to humans and are spying on Earth in order to plan for an invasion. Humans only figured out after scientists started dying, seemingly mysteriously.
Its sci-fi, but like, they could just take advantage of the tech we already have and hack our servers to gather data, and even if humans figure it out about the hacking, they would just think it was human criminal and its just labeled as a "databreach". (Who knows, maybe one of the databreaches are actually just aliens gathering data.)
Like... goverments run by humans already out so much cameras in the streets, aliens can just... tap into the feed lol. Use our own surveillance state against us.
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They could easily send the signals away from us. How would we detect something like that?
Satellites.
How would our satellites detect something outside normal orbits?
By looking at Earth? That's how most of them work.
lol so they can’t see anything outside the orbit. Just put a camera there.
I tried going down this line of thinking too, but any assumption you make is predicated on the belief that they would use means that we are familiar with. Just because we do not know of a way to do such and such does not mean it does not exist. This post is referring to a fundamental epistemic problem.
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There was a TV SciFi series for kids with some guys from the future arriving in our time to solve an issue, and they had cameras the size of pins they could stick anywhere to see what's happening.
The fun of the series was that those guys from the future had barely a clue how to blend in in our time, with a historian of them trying to make them fit in.
You know that documentary show “Spy in the Wild” where they film animals using animatronics that look like those animals. Well aliens are probably doing it right now to us. Lifelike androids are among us. Some of us are even married to them and have kids with them. The aliens are so advanced that they can build human robots that are humanlike down to the cell.
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Or maybe aliens just don’t care. We may not be that special.
Occasionally you do observe the woodpeckers in your backyard, but ignore the crows in the forest. Maybe there’s an ornithologist who cares about those crows, but most of us just can’t be bothered.
The birds are watching you.
Try leaving bird seeds. They'll know instantly, because they're always watching you.
If you don't leave bird seeds they will find your car and shit on it.
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Not just cameras... Probes👽😮
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