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{"topics":[{"id":"53c36a856368720525490100","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"come on, someone has to watch boondocks","author":"5154c5237f123bcd580002fc"},{"id":"53c36a9d6368727f7e140100","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@gasmaskangel\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/53c369c26368723fbd6b0000#post_53c369c26368723fbd6b0000\r\nTo quote a scifi from 1984 that I can't remember the name of right now, \"Violent species fundamentally destroy themselves cause it's fundamentally in their nature to do so\".\r\n\r\nWhat I mean by this is that if there was a intelligent species that the biological nature for strife overpowered their self preservation they would eventually destroy themselves.  To use a analogy let's say humans desire for victory overpowered self preservation, now imagine what would have happened during the cold war if the desire for victory overpowered the desire to live.\r\n\r\nIf say in the micro scale someone pulled a gun on you and you in turn pulled a gun on them; what would happen if the self preservation instinct wasn't powerful enough to overcome the desire to shoot?","author":"38b55cdf63616403d7560600"},{"id":"53c36aaa6368726529590000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"・・・やったゼ！","author":"5062d6f17f123b3e16001184"},{"id":"53c36ac66368724d8c860000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@trashboat\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/53c36aaa6368726529590000#post_53c36aaa6368726529590000\r\n\r\ni dont speak alien.","author":"5154c5237f123bcd580002fc"},{"id":"53c36acb63687279dd130000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"I'd also like to have Neanderthal children. Since we have sequenced their entire genome, that could well be possible.","author":"50b70eeb7f123b1a02000097"},{"id":"53c36b0e6368721d29bf0000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@uc9\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/53c368906368722029750000#post_53c368906368722029750000\r\nWell they just did. :P","author":"4fde5cee945b700a970060fc"},{"id":"53c36b0f63687213c0540300","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@Bryon\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/53c36a696368721feaf30000#post_53c36a696368721feaf30000\r\nWhy not both?\r\n\"@trashboat\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/53c36a726368726517430000#post_53c36a726368726517430000\r\nWell, it's nothing new to see Hazama get compared to Ichimaru.","author":"513e68eda4c72d4e3b000164"},{"id":"53c36b2c6368720c290a0000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@uc9\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/53c36a9d6368727f7e140100#post_53c36a9d6368727f7e140100\r\n...You aren't actually disproving my point.","author":"4f41ee04945b701c41002af7"},{"id":"53c36b3d636872141e000000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@trashboat\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/53c36aaa6368726529590000#post_53c36aaa6368726529590000\r\n-Zero that you've done","author":"4fde5cee945b700a970060fc"},{"id":"53c36b8b636872124d1c0000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@twistedmetalero\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/53c36ac66368724d8c860000#post_53c36ac66368724d8c860000\r\n馬鹿め・・・どうしてお前が問うか？","author":"5062d6f17f123b3e16001184"},{"id":"53c36c096368720c17410100","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"Mosasaurs were relatives of extant monitor lizards. If you could modify a monitor lizard to grow to a larger size, give live birth and have flippers, you would have a pretty good replica of a mosasaur.","author":"50b70eeb7f123b1a02000097"},{"id":"53c36c106368721add320000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"what was that about my mom asshole?","author":"5154c5237f123bcd580002fc"},{"id":"53c36c516368727fb3a20100","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@twistedmetalero\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/53c36c106368721add320000#post_53c36c106368721add320000\r\nThat she's a sperm whale?","author":"50b70eeb7f123b1a02000097"},{"id":"53c36c536368727a2b6f0000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@gasmaskangel\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/53c36b2c6368720c290a0000#post_53c36b2c6368720c290a0000\r\nMy point is that we're probably one of the few intelligent species in the universe that is violent and has managed to get this far.  The reason why we probably haven't ran into any aliens yet is there's a highly probable chance that the overwhelming vast majority of violent species kill themselves due to self preservation not being strong enough to stop them from destroying themselves.\r\n\r\nIf/when we run into aliens the first thing that's probably going to pop out of their mouths is, \"Wow; you actually managed to not kill yourselves\".  Not having a self preservation instinct is *NOT* a survival trait.","author":"38b55cdf63616403d7560600"},{"id":"53c36c996368722fc2060000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@uc9\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/53c36c536368727a2b6f0000#post_53c36c536368727a2b6f0000\r\n\r\nThat of course, if we don't kill them in the process due to paranoia that they might assimilate/exterminate us","author":"4fdfbf92945b7075d50036e4"},{"id":"53c36d406368722f96370000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@uc9\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/53c36c536368727a2b6f0000#post_53c36c536368727a2b6f0000\r\nI would just ask the aliens to show me their biotech.","author":"50b70eeb7f123b1a02000097"},{"id":"53c36dca6368721439b70000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@twistedmetalero\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/53c36c106368721add320000#post_53c36c106368721add320000\r\nヒヒヒ・・・　お前が忘れたか？僕が依然５５５スーツにいるだ","author":"5062d6f17f123b3e16001184"},{"id":"53c36de36368727a2bd10000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@QuasarNova\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/53c36c996368722fc2060000#post_53c36c996368722fc2060000\r\n*AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA*\r\n(intermission)\r\n(five minutes later)\r\n*AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!*\r\n\r\nChances are any aliens we run into would be so far advanced beyond us technologically we would not pose any threat to them and that anything and everything we could throw at them would be considered a child's play toy to them.\r\n\r\n\"Oh my god aliens!  SHOOT!\"\r\n(gunfire and mortar shells)\r\n(everything not even leaving a scratch)\r\nAliens, \"Why are they firing children's kinetic projectiles at us?  Are they trying to play <insert alien equivalent of paintball> with us or something?\"\r\n\"It's not working!  We need to nuke them!\"\r\n(nuke goes off)\r\n(aliens completely unphased)\r\nAliens, \"Well that was dumb of them of them to kill themselves.  Sure we have radiation and kinetic dampeners, but they don't.  Why would they harm themselves?\"","author":"38b55cdf63616403d7560600"},{"id":"53c36e41636872255d730000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@uc9\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/53c36de36368727a2bd10000#post_53c36de36368727a2bd10000\r\n\r\nThere's always the \"Atmosphere is unbreatheable for them\" card","author":"4fdfbf92945b7075d50036e4"},{"id":"53c36f3f63687225abe90000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"I would love it if aliens were actually descendants of dinosaurs that were taken by other aliens to another planet. They could anal probe me anytime. <3","author":"50b70eeb7f123b1a02000097"},{"id":"53c36f816368722d1d9f0100","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@uc9\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/53c36de36368727a2bd10000#post_53c36de36368727a2bd10000\r\n\r\n\"nah nigga, we just gotta call the boys and they´ll get the job done with those aliens\":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMl3_cz05Jo \r\n\r\n!http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view6/2641737/scary-movie-3-shootout-o.gif!\r\n\r\nif they dont shoot themselves...","author":"5154c5237f123bcd580002fc"},{"id":"53c370086368726949470000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@uc9\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/53c36c536368727a2b6f0000#post_53c36c536368727a2b6f0000\r\nLook, I get the whole misanthropic \"ain't humans bastards?\" thing but you haven't actually rebutted my point. If as you say aliens are so much more peaceful than us, then what drives their innovation? Pure altruistic love of knowledge. Not goddamn likely. Unless they live in a post scarcity society which would itself require absurdly advanced tech, then it means that their scientists are as beholden to the people holding the purse strings of society as ours are, and even less likely to get funding because you've removed one of the key reasons we innovate.\r\n\r\nWe might have gone to the moon without the Cold War, but it sure wouldn't have been as fast.\r\n\r\nAlso it frankly offends me how little credit you're willing to give humanity. Yes. There are people who would react to alien life with gunfire, but I doubt that they constitute the majority.","author":"4f41ee04945b701c41002af7"},{"id":"53c3701563687259f85e0000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@Randomosaur\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/53c36f3f63687225abe90000#post_53c36f3f63687225abe90000\r\nHate to break it to you, but there's no evidence of any previous civilizations on Earth and that if there was there would be massive evidence towards this.\r\n\r\nAs such no on several accounts.","author":"38b55cdf63616403d7560600"},{"id":"53c3708363687258ef820000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@trashboat\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/53c36dca6368721439b70000#post_53c36dca6368721439b70000\r\nI think Trashy has temporarily lost his native tongue.","author":"4fde5cee945b700a970060fc"},{"id":"53c3715a6368720c3b210000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@uc9\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/53c3701563687259f85e0000#post_53c3701563687259f85e0000\r\n:(","author":"50b70eeb7f123b1a02000097"}]}