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[@ericlondon2663]

"Pacifists" that shoot first then expect mercy LMFAO

[@seangrey]

thats actually what you would expect from a scared pacifist. No understanding of conflict.

[@sleepingbackbone7581]

scared pacifist is most dangerous and unpredictable one, has no control over it's reactions in the face of extreme situations and dangers. unlike trained warrior's mind...

[@ireallyreallyhategoogle]

It's called fear.

[@einyv]

In humanity's defense the aliens did attack first unprovoked. The aliens monitored humans for centuries so they should've have known how to communicaten with us.

[@0Zolrender0]

really? that's your defence of our violence in this scenario?

[@einyv]

​​@@0Zolrender0 how is it not? A more advanced species has monitored us for centuries should have absolutely known how to make contact to us. Every step of the way the aliens thought humans were monsters not worth talking to. They put shields up where the first probe got destroyed and yet made no attempt to contact. Their choice? Try to destroy humans. Now after they get decimated they realize they can't communicate with humans? Seriously bad time to figure that out don't you think? 99% of the fault goes to the contradictory aggressor pacifists. Maybe if they didn't lose their way, the outcome would be different. Humans had no idea the aliens were trying to surrender and why would they? All experience with the aliens showed them to be the aggressors.

[@paulwarren9927]

@@0Zolrender0 The aliens made the choice to frack around and find out. That's on them. Should have made better choices. 🤷‍♂

[@JUNIOR-MAFIA]

No "human retaliation is righ" here IMO. We "Attack" other spécies on our home planet all thé fucking time for "scientific" (and other very bad) reasons. WHAT IF THEY DECIDED TO "RETALIATE" without further notice. Would it make it normal to be "attacked" by them in retaliation, just because all thé fucking time we couldn't properly communicate With them? Thé exact same situation in my opinion. Communication difficuties shouldn't lead to immédiate "retaliation". You wouldn't want our dogs and cats at home suddenly shooting at us for no fucking reeason than "bad communication" would you?

[@Bellator_of_the_Shadow]

guys chillax. as human beings without freaking politicians we are actually a quite peaceful race. if the news media would shut up and politicians fought their own freaking wars the whole world would be at peace.

[@Hollex28]

A happy ending. The emperor is proud of humanity.

[@MaliciousPain]

I don’t think the emperor even existed in the story

[@txDDS]

America, FUK YEAH!!!!

[@Hollex28]

@@MaliciousPain Heretic!

[@MaliciousPain]

@@Hollex28 yeah yeah stop your blabbering Monkai

[@Tu11iy]

​@@MaliciousPain the idea sure does, ask those wretched Xenos.

[@worldcomicsreview354]

Humans: We had a war among ourselves, parts of it were about ideology, but ultimately it came down to energy. A nation called America put an oil embargo on a nation called Japan. What Japan couldn't buy, they took by force! The Americans worked long and hard to unleash nuclear power... Klingon: Ah, so there would be abundant energy for all! Human: No, so Japan could be blown up even more effectively. Klingon: So, er, actually, can we have a peace treaty with you? We suddenly aren't feeling the whole warrior culture thing.

[@zeehero7280]

In the end though that nuclear power did provide abundant energy. But only after it provided explosions.

[@user-cw3wm9lx7w]

yes. it does create cheap power though

[@stevetheduck1425]

An Arthur C Clarke story is like this: an alien ethnologist watching sadly as a race limited to one world begins to explore space, then kills itself, except for a few ships trying desperately to escape to the nearer stars. Impressed by their ingenuity and strength of character, the aliens make contact and aid them to the nearest uninhabited but liveable worlds for the survivors. It ends like this: 'With that much drive to live, we might be making a mistake.' they joked. Twenty years later, it didn't seem like a joke anymore.

[@davidchambers8697]

This sounds like his first published work "Rescue Party", in which the aliens attempt to rescue people from a planet about to be destroyed when its Sun goes nova, and discover that the inhabitants have escaped by STL starship. "I feel a little afraid of these people. After all, we only outnumber them about a thousand million to one."

[@Nolan15692]

Them disarming themselves is totally stupid considering they’re in space which is literally the great unknown where it could be empty in that star system but there could also be a very strong militant species or even AI gone rogue and they don’t have to follow your rules, you’d think a space faring species of all species would recognize how irresponsible it is to disarm themselves.

[@pedrolmlkzk]

Nevermind that weapons have actual practical uses in space

[@Nolan15692]

@@pedrolmlkzk exactly for starters deflecting asteroids or possibly even destroying them.

[@titus2120]

Indeed. Reminiscent of the great works of the early to mid 1950’s. A warning then, a sad memory now. Excellent work.

[@welshed]

I mean, don’t try and trap us. It won’t go down well.

[@0Zolrender0]

maybe we just need to work out why we are being trapped and adapt? War and violence is not the first go to tool. Your response to me makes me feel like you would be the guy that wanted war with whatever made the barrier. Just for making the barrier. Dude. First work out WHY they made the barrier.

[@stevetheduck1425]

It's worth looking up the philosophical example of 'The Prisoner's Dilemma'. Several worked examples are available on Rationalwiki. After all, this puzzle is why the three or so nuclear powers never attacked each other with nuclear weapons.

[@ZacharyGamingiscool]

@@0Zolrender0 tehehe war : )

[@seangrey]

@@0Zolrender0 Thats a very SUBMISSIVE take........

[@fenstermayhew30]

@@0Zolrender0 At the end of the day, Humanity lives and pacifistic Xenos die. Why strive to join the losing team?

[@walterengler5709]

This reminds me of another Science Fiction story I read in Analog. The peaceful beings of the galaxy had encountered the humans as they moved out into space. They initially welcomed this new species, and began to introduce them to aspects of their cultures and races. But they became alarmed as they learned of the humans war like nature. Even worse was when they were showing technology to the humans. They shows the humans an experimental farming machine that had turned out to be a failure. And the humans looked it over, asked if they could have it, took it home, and they changed it into one of the most efficient ground based killing machines the races had seen. Alarmed over this they gathered their forces before the humans could get stronger, just managed to beat them back into Sol, and placed a force shield around their planet with the control based on the moon to contain them. Now it was 200 years later, and the races had encountered and even worse threat on the edges of the galaxy, some race that was expanding and killing and consuming everything they encountered. Desperate for any help, they sent a delegation to the Earth. The crew of that ship got to the planet and went through the shield (not realizing an enemy ship has followed them). They landed on the world which seemed almost agrarian and found a house with family in it at started talking to him. And he said he could speak for the people of the planet and that confused them but the continued. Even as they discussed their problem with a worse threat, the other ship landed elsewhere on the planet and the crew exited. They found a young child and picked him up looking him over considering how to consume him. The child pointed to the ship and said bad men .. and the ship and aliens all dissolved into nothingness. In the meantime back at the other location, the person they were talking to looked back up as if having been distracted, and said the humans would be willing to provide what aid they could. If they would simply go back into space and destroy the force shield, they would accompany them back to command. Again this confused them as the humans had no ships but they did as asked. And the moment the shield was down every single creature on the planet (humans, animals, everything) looked up with one thought .. freedom at last! Even as the aliens on the ship are discussing what use the humans could be, a glowing point starts appearing in the Atlantic Ocean and it grows and grows as something extend out from the planet. And then the WHOLE PLANET starts to move. Stunned one of the aliens mention that it looks like the moon is also moving with the planet and staying in orbit exactly as it should. Another alien dumbfounded makes a comment about well I guess you get used to a moon like that and want to keep it around. And the alien ambassador can only think dear maker, what have we unleashed on the universe. Those poor (alien name I can't remember) will never know what happened.

[@captainnerd6452]

Sounds like "With Friends Like These..." by Alan Dean Foster.

[@user-ck9co5kd7q]

@@captainnerd6452 That's the one! Used to have all of his collected works at one time, wish I still did!

[@outinthesticks1035]

I knew I had read that in a book of short stories, but couldn't remember the author. As soon as I read " Alan Dean foster " bingo

[@walterengler5709]

@@outinthesticks1035 Thanks! I then I went looking and there is the 1984 anthology of short stories and this one is the cover showing the man eating at a table with the aliens around, the negotiations for help. Amazing how that story as short as it is sticks in my head after ALL these years.

[@Fayanora]

My friend Brooke told me about that one years ago, it sounds like a lot of fun.

[@JohnJBrowne11209]

A warning to the galaxy. Don't eff with Humanity

[@ladygrey7425]

In the Emperor's name, let none survive.

[@Boredofmostofit]

You can literally See how the author is familiar with the World of tiers series. A big compliment to him and this channel... good sci-fi is rare and should be treasured.

[@user-pm9bq2bl9k]

Clark was a scientist who wrote SF that obeyed physics, Believable futures.

[@westernbody]

Never mess wih The Empire of Man

[@literalsarcasm1830]

Purge the Xenos

[@nargalda773]

FOR THE EMPEROR !!

[@luzifershadres]

Neighborring star alliance: WTF DUDES, YOU DOOMED US ALL WE TOLD YOU THE IDEA WAS STUPPID

[@andershamberg2589]

Humanity first! Onwards, the Great Crusade! Suffer not the Xeno to live. etc.

[@scottl9660]

The Emperor protects.

[@user-cw3wm9lx7w]

my faith is my shield, my coward is contempt

[@JoaoSoares-rs6ec]

5000 years of war, not 2000 years

[@nargalda773]

actualy it will be more then 100 000 years, considering we probably fight for fire when discovered

[@gazz3867]

Actually, neither. It's every year.

[@JoaoSoares-rs6ec]

@@gazz3867 5000 years of war, not a war 5000 years ago

[@kanekiken2002]

​@@gazz3867Yeah, it's forever.

[@stevetheduck1425]

In our defence, there's this odd blip around 200BC where humans didn't make war on an international scale for a short time. Several 'revealed' religions date from then. It's a historical puzzle.

[@kingmasterlord]

we _are_ pacifistic in tendency, we just respond explosively to oppression.

[@Chris-es3wf]

Being duke of Mars sounds cool lets do it

[@nargalda773]

EMPEROR PROTECTS!!

[@johnjanuary2958]

So they watched us for centuries then imprisoned humans behind a force field And started shooting humans immediately. Then said look how mean these humans are!

[@madtofuboi8085]

I love your stories. I wish you can visually illustrate it. Like a comic book.

[@OnlineMedien]

AI can do that

[@swampcastle8142]

Earth lesson: Don't mess with our boats...

[@glasgowjohn7831]

i love your videos keep up the good work

[@scifistories1977]

Thanks, I'm glad you like them.

[@Valehass]

FYI, human behaviour is animal behavior, we are no exception only capable of extending our will to survive beyond our immediate needs. if life exists elsewhere it is either on par with human ferocity or vastly exceeds it.

[@sillyking1991]

Why assume that humans are the floor of ferocity? Thats just an assumption

[@Kmoore888]

Humans: 1, Universe: 0.

[@carnelmccarthy1099]

Cry havoc,. Let slip the Dogs of War..😮

[@JohnsJohnson-ns5xm]

The humans, the cockroaches of the galaxy. We take great pride in that designation.

[@Otokichi786]

In David Brin's "Uplift" series, the Galactics consider Homo sapiens a "Wolfling race.";)

[@Spartan135]

have you ever heard of Warhammer fantasy's most unique species? Humanity are space Skaven,YES-YES!

[@ccfmfg]

Some Pacifists. So it's Ok if You have all the Guns. How Convenient.

[@johncunningham4820]

Yeah . That sounds like us.........................😪

[@g.docswift9292]

2:08 What manner of "pacifism" do these aliens employ? "Oh no, they aren't like us, so we should EXTERMINATE THEM!" Ugh.

[@NikkiTheViolist]

it's the "Become pacifist like us or stop existing!" type of pacifism

[@rafaelramos1486]

Nice

[@stephensowell9578]

A fitting turn.

[@chrisbiro1]

There is certainly other life that has reached technological levels sufficient to get into space. The big question is can they survive their technology growth long enough to develop mental and social progress sufficient to prevent them from destroying themselves due to residual instinctive tendencies that made them aggressive enough to dominate their planets? If they reach technology sufficient to cross vast expanses of space to reach other systems, by definition, they did expand mentally and socially sufficiently to survive their technology advances. Any such advanced species will also recognize and likely appreciate the vastness of our universe and the rareness of any other species advancing within the same time frame they themselves exist. This is likely to instill a deep appreciation for discovering such new evolving species. They will also though be aware of the danger of species that have not reached this level of development, meaning they will not want to interact with us until we have reached that same level of development maturity. It is unlikely they believe they can help us reach that development and thus will likely simply observe us, hoping we do achieve this. They may step in to keep us from destroying ourselves to give us additional opportunities to continue to develop toward that goal. For us to get there, we need to recognize our power addiction is holding us back. Nature tends toward brief states of balance in a universe in constant motion (meaning change). We must learn to live with each other and with the rest of our natural systems instead of trying to dominate them. I am not saying technology has no place, it certainly does, or we would never expand into space. But we must learn to do so with balance, not dominance. Until then, we will be unlikely to meet alien life.

[@VestedUTuber]

Ok, this one's a little... well, suspension of disbelief stretching. Even a hyper-aggressive humanity would look at the fact that aliens set up a force field around the Sol system and the fact that said aliens have no idea how to actually fight, and realize that the aliens were acting in fear, not malice. We're not stupid.

[@stevenf1953]

Yeah! That us humans for sure. We can't get along with anyone. LOL

[@Keith_WB2VUO]

Retired QA Inspector. Dealt in unpleasant truths for 50 years. Fiction is not in my skillset.

[@RoscoesRiffs]

So humans ARE the Klingons. 😎

[@grandfathergeek]

Awesome short video- I always felt humans would be more trouble than the universe was prepared for.

[@benwest3223]

We are alone. The odds of life arising anywhere in the universe in so short a span are so remote that it mathematically could not have happened. We won the lottery. In fact, we won every lottery.

[@robertcovino4889]

Silly Aliens 😂 The Second World War was just more practice for humans to increase their skill sets in the art of war.

[@josephcler3299]

The Galaxy should have destroyed the Earth when it had a chance.

[@13tucker45]

watches humanity for different decades Doesnt bither learning how to communicate with them Gets their shit pushed in after blowing up one of their ships and then firing the first shot... Cant surrender because they dont know how... seems they werent as intelligent as they thought

[@TalberNalliso]

Wait...were they in Florida at a mall recently??

[@ccfmfg]

Some Advanced Aliens You are. Well just like the American Indians, It's Your Galaxy to Lose. Oh well.

[@chadvanderlinden9548]

Not "we were sat". "We sat".

[@yourwrostnightmare3559]

As a wise man once said, it's not the aliens that will be hostile, it's the humans that will be the hostile alien race

[@robertchannel2191]

Human were type 3 civilization until fantasy world open portal to our world earth

[@dennis2376]

How sad.

[@NovaZero]

.... uh, no, humans have done more than 2000 years of war. Much longer. Much, much longer. 2000 years ago is just when we thought to try and keep each war separate. It's confusing, I know. It's a human thing. Don't worry about it.

[@neilgriffiths6427]

No essay's from me, but this is a tad bleak - humans as the most warlike species in the galaxy? Sure, I've read Alan Dean Foster - but we do peace as well as war. Get used to it.

[@brentkalmbacher9092]

Suffer not the xenos to live.....

[@zorankalina4399]

Hm...it should be a film made about ET comunicate with Iran, North Korea.....Putin. Who do such a script....Will eaarn a lot of money. Sure....if Putin Will not start a nuclear war🤔

[@Keith_WB2VUO]

And??? Where's the rest of the story?

[@quezbot3663]

you finish it and post it here. :)

[@nargalda773]

they died, end of story

[@stevetheduck1425]

The aliens are already all dead. The recording is being studied by humans. I thought it was obvious?

[@Amoth_oth_ras_shash]

hmm.. this reminds me of another sort of ish story like it , just no fat force field or such just a despotic empires last archives being catalogued ,and in those files where victors expected black ops projects , last ditch miracle weapon reports , instead they found little more then dusty physical volumes and some fresh recordings along with crude coordinates.. and some very ..very ..very old recordings , of a lone system in a patch of mostly dead stars ..where a number of ancient satellites loyally turned around it in far far out orbit ..warning all that came near of a single planet in it , and blocking all singals into the system.. and upon that planet , an endless slaughter where lifes and material where butchered ruthlessly only to be recycled and feed the ceaseless killing the satelites carrying the sorrow shattered plea of progenitors not to catch the eyes of their conflict consumed decedents and the empire through its last officers and royals postumely pleading with their vanquishers not to do so either as the savage talent for war they witnessed there despite generations having passed still where byond anything they or their vanquishers could comprehend

[@jasong9774]

My dishwasher doesn't work. I keep piling the dishes into a tote nearby and after each dishwasher run, they are just as dirty as before. There are different dishes I've seen that don't have this problem. I'll get some of those then eat in plastic bags, that way they stay clean. Clearly the dishwasher is broken. Those new dishes will then work great in my cabinets. They will stay clean if I don't eat with them. The dishwasher doesn't work.

[@stevetheduck1425]

Reverse exceptionalism. More likely we will fade to nothing against the vast distances involved long before we can find something to unite against.

[@tsr207]

I often wonder at the physic state of someone who can compose such a hateful piece of writing about their species .

[@stevenscott2136]

Hateful? I see it as bragging. "Humans -- do NOT f**k with us!"

[@proudamerican183]

It's human pride. We know we're @$$holes. We know how destructive we are. And we enjoy thinking of us being able to do incredible feats such as this. As someone else put it; Humanity: 1 / Universe: 0

[@dtkedtyjrtyj]

This was written by a human. The Lars are made up.

[@user-em1kp5ul6l]

So religion didnt work to keep them humans tamed