• abbadon420@lemm.ee
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    6 days ago

    It would be fun if actual intelligent alien lifeforms decide to land their flying saucers on earth on April 1st

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        That would likely depend on their motives. If they are wanting to infiltrate and don’t have a good cloaking tech, then entering on a day when any reports would likely be dismissed would be a spectacularly intelligent decision.

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    Researcher: “So how are you, uhh… likin that rock?”

    Lichen: “…”

    We are once again alone in the universe

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    I have trouble to distinguish whether its some funny phrasing of an actual thing that was done or just a late April fools joke, can someone help me out?

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      Given the way that science headlines are composed, I’m sure this is, if not an outright lie, then a gross exaggeration, and if neither of those, a very clever interpretation of something that is otherwise probably much more mundane than it appears.