Best HFY Reddit Stories: The Chance To Meet Us

[@boingboingresearcherph.d.2871]

Imagine asking: "How long have you been divided?" Humans: "∞"

[@tomasrolter6729]

Ah, the fun of translation. The first contact is always the worst, unless you already have a common language.

[@boingboingresearcherph.d.2871]

Good thing they have a lot of time deciphering each other's signals... I also remember reading something like that... The humans found a signal, and the aliens replies... They spend decades deciphering and when the humans finally did it it translates to "HELP".

[@tomasrolter6729]

@@boingboingresearcherph.d.2871 Lucky we are in this story.

[@TechnoSpectre3]

Yes, we refused to 100% unity ever since we were scattered from the Tower of Babel by a sudden divergence of language. How fitting.

[@clothokaftan]

the universal constants are always a good baseline to fall back on, this is why the metric system even exists, its based on Planck's Constant, whereas the imperial system is based on archaic and crude representations of finger lengths and feet lengths, not exactly practical for anyone other than a closed society. the measurement of the speed of light (another universal constant) can be used to measure time as well as gravity, since the speed of light is affected by powerful gravity wells like stairs, pulsars, and blackholes. the distance light travels in a given period can determine the passage of time, and therefore the division of time.

[@clothokaftan]

@@TechnoSpectre3 god will have to try harder than that if he wants us to truly be unable to understand eachother, we can still understand emotions, and since most humans these days are practically scholars, we all have a general understanding of universal constants, and with some math, can construct a basic language from it to communicate with. the only way god can truly cripple our ability to unite would be to make us utterly incapable of empathizing with others, and for the universal constants to no longer be constant, thereby destroying the fabric of the universe. it was a vain act on his part to begin with, out of petty spite and no actual wisdom behind it. this is why HFY stories have discarded gods as no more than a hindrance at the least, and an existential threat at the worst.

[@noppornwongrassamee8941]

The chance to make new friends... or new enemies. Hence the ancient saying (which I'm probably going to mangle): Me against my brother. My brother and me together against our family. Our family together against the world. Yes, we have always been divided. But divided factions coming together to present a single front to an outside force (be it friend or enemy) is as old as we are.

[@talisonqueirozviana7329]

i know that saying as: me against my brother, us against our cousin, the three of us against the world. don't know what the original is though.

[@alganhar1]

@@talisonqueirozviana7329 It stems from an old Arab Bedouin saying that apparently translates into me and my brother against our cousin, the three of against a stranger. No idea if the changes for the modern saying are a case of mistranslation, or purposeful. Neither would surprise me, and the fact the saying has changed slightly does not surprise me either. Sometimes sayings change over time. Its like the saying Blood is thicker than Water so many people like to use. The original saying was the Blood of the Covenant is thicker than the Water of the womb! Though admittedly a complete reversal of the original meaning of the saying is a bit of an extreme example!!!

[@CheeseyBreezey]

Do not de-blakanize the clever apes. We make things go boom.

[@limboonsiew5552]

well, this is really a unique way on how first contact happen. hope to see more from the Author. Special Thanks Reader for reading being the Author's story to live

[@callisto1556]

me to

[@StaK_1980]

This is more accurate representation than a lot of SF tropes to date. Yes, it would be a puzzle. But it looks like it is worth it.

[@WendiGonerLH]

Got me all teary eyed. Also love the whole dynamic of humanity uniting to meet our interstellar neighbors, like scrambling to clean your house when you realize you have a visitor.

[@clarkb1900]

It's like that scene from The Incredibles: The whole family gets into a HUGE fight over dinner.. ..until the doorbell rings. Then they all freeze, leap back into their chairs, and say "come in!" 😂

[@robinn57]

For anyone wondering about a second part. I went to the Reddit and this contains both the first and second part. The first part was 2 years ago up to where he reaches out to shake a hand. The second part is the rest.

[@The_Viscount]

This is what I want for us. This kind of future. This story made me cry.

[@legionofregion8825]

Oh aliens, if only you knew how much we loved and needed you. Ignore the 50% of humanity who wishes to kill everything it meets

[@greywolf9783]

Wishes to end everything it meets?

[@legionofregion8825]

@@greywolf9783 I corrected it

[@Spartoi1]

One of the sweetest HFY's i've read so far. Thank you so much for your narration

[@EnderKingDubs]

I love the incorporation of aspects of the Voyager Maps, diagrams, and records and how the aliens returned in kind. Considering how much of a touchstone those probes are in space exploration, the use of their information in a first contact is incredibly poetic.

[@Honest_Abe1]

I love this, when the species of space are just getting out there

[@XanthIllion]

I love this! I've never once, in my decades of enjoying sci fi, seen such a First Contact story as this.

[@smaragdwolf1]

Oh, a Signal of intelligent life :o We can partially understand them :D Stop fighting Guys, we found new Friends! Time to meet new Friends :3

[@falseprophet1024]

More realistically: stop fighting guys, we found someone else we might have to fight. Oh, they are friendly? *turns back to neighboring country* Okay, where were we?..

[@UmarWazir]

Don't forget to pack the potato salad!

[@Sanquinity]

@@falseprophet1024I bet if we ever get to space and join some galactic federation or whatever, we will very quickly insist upon one very important rule: Don't interfere in infighting between humans, or things will get VERY ugly VERY fast. Just let us blow ourselves up if we insist on doing so. :P

[@dennismokry258]

When this came out hadn’t started listening to any narrated stories hear on KZbin, but really wish I had. To me this is an excellent story and I hope that the author has been made well aware of how good this story is.

[@StephenCampbell-yy2xc]

The bravery of the captain is incredible not realizing the massive iron hull was needed for shielding. The humans ship looking like a dreadnought

[@PanduPoluan]

This would so very much make a very good Science Fiction short movie. I don't know exactly why but it's very very touching for me. Maybe the end conclusion? "We set aside our divisions and rivalries and set out to meet a new friend. Humanity is not alone." Amazing story.

[@BrunoMaricFromZagreb]

Interesting way to present first contact!

[@MetalheadAndNerd]

That is a uniquely good story among all the "humans shoot everything to dust" rubbish.

[@MetalheadAndNerd]

@@zephloe If it doesn't involve humans the H in HFY stands for nothing.

[@russko118]

@@zephloe does a more borad subreddit exist? i would read some of that kind of story

[@Destroy10151]

@zephole try r/writingprompts

[@cassiswyrm8121]

​@@zephloeI always find it a bit weird when a group is made for a specific purpose, but if it gets popular then people get mad that it was made for that purpose instead of being something else that they think it should have to be instead.

[@kyriss12]

@@zephloe I haven’t looked into what it takes to post on royal road, but they tend to have a lot more diversity in types of fiction.

[@victortahlor4038]

Thank you for the reading

[@Edmar_Thorn]

"So how long were you divided until now?" "yes"

[@mouserr]

i hope this isnt just a 1 off and we get more. its a nice start

[@Locust_Moon]

The incredibly sophisticated setting makes the incredibly pure plot concept so much more powerful. I have just found my new favorite sci-fi author.

[@timfarrell6968]

This is one of my favorite stories.

[@chialeux514]

11:38 Now it displays astrological data: "Sagittarius (November 22nd to December 21st). Lucky numbers: 5, 14. 26 and 37. "

[@thecursed01]

this ended waaaaay too soon

[@Blackout5871]

Oh em ge it is so awesome listening to your narration while I'm working. Sure speeds along the hours.

[@ortear8189]

I love the concept of sci-fi stories from the alien's perspective. I'm currently asking permission from each story creator, to write a movie script. There's so many stories the flow into one another, so smoothly, it's hard not to pass up the chance for a new sci-fi movie concept.

[@arandomsystemglitch2398]

"Screw up a first contact" but those are where first contacts can always be screwed up so long as it doesnt ruin relations

[@FeyTheBin]

They're speaking in Powerpoint.

[@veil6655]

Oh? Then doesn't that make me an expert in alien first contact communications then? I have spoken in PowerPoint quite fluently to numerous project managers in my company after all.

[@hraharahra]

Awesome!

[@aeric257]

The chance that you aren't friends.

[@AgentPepsi1]

What an awesome story!!

[@peterwalls-qf7ii]

Smart birb! We'll get along famously. Oh BTW can you tolerate alcohol? If you can..screw this dance, lets go get some beers. I'm buying the first round.

[@alfredsutton4412]

Fun … enjoyed the story. 😊

[@nvfury13]

What always gets me about “we can’t talk to each other, we have no idea how to teach them our language” stories is that we know very well how to teach things with very underdeveloped brains, and with developed ones, a language. We teach every child a language, so why would we not use the same type of method with an alien species? Why would an alien species not be able to do the same back?

[@jasonwarren9279]

We don't teach children to speak. They learn from hearing us speak.

[@baaa838]

"its nice to meet you but its even better to know me"

[@VooshSpokesman]

Love from a DenOfTheDrake and Vaush fan!

[@mattstrandquist2148]

That is the only thing, I think, that might unify humanity.

[@doppelhelixes]

on the human side: we must unite against the aliens!

[@Rokr83]

That was beautiful ....

[@w-gsnow8427]

Not to point fingers or anything, but do you re-publish older content you've done before? I've been curious for a bit, thinking I was going crazy. However I remember listening to this one a while back on this channel.

[@silvadelshaladin]

If they can reliably send numbers but not pictures or anything analog, I'd be liable to send an AI.

[@chaddts]

There are plenty of ways around this issue.

[@FurlongStrongPersonal]

No pressure

[@charlesblanchard6400]

shut up. im not crying your crying

[@thelaughinghyenas8465]

Is the alien is talking about the division and coming together of sexual reproduction that has been around like forever?

[@MiMuMo]

Probably more like countries breaking and merging, the aliens expect one species to be of the same heraldry, no separations, no divide.

[@carls.6746]

why is it that they never teach binary??? this alone allows both species computers talk to each other and understand and decode each others meaning.

[@MrSqurk]

Even if their computers use binary the difference in the way they encode data will be massively different.

[@DaZebraffe]

@@MrSqurk Not really. All of our coding languages are basically just ever more and more complex ways to use binary to do things.

[@MrSqurk]

@@DaZebraffe yes really. But believe whatever you want.

[@noir-jaune6957]

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[@guywiththumbs3724]

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