• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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    13 days ago

    whatever experts in culturally independent communication they are getting to do it totally deserve the funding

    Some of those “experts” proposed genetically engineering a bioluminescent breed of dogs to detect when radiation is nearby, and making viral pop songs about “when the dog starts glowing, run very far away”…

    I think some of them got a little too imaginative. Sometimes you think so abstractly that you miss the obvious.

    For instance, Carl Sagan suggested we simply mark them with a skull and crossbones, which every organism with an endoskeleton can recognize as a symbol for “death” and thus “danger.”

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      22 hours ago

      you fool, you absolute buffoon, they’re cats
      hahaha, i will remember this, for posterity, this is the original(?) version:

      whatever experts in culturally independent communication they are getting to do it totally deserve the funding

      Some of those “experts” proposed genetically engineering a bioluminescent breed of dogs to detect when radiation is nearby, and making viral pop songs about “when the dog starts glowing, run very far away”…

      I think some of them got a little too imaginative. Sometimes you think so abstractly that you miss the obvious.

      For instance, Carl Sagan suggested we simply mark them with a skull and crossbones, which every organism with an endoskeleton can recognize as a symbol for “death” and thus “danger.”

      ahahahahaa, you did not check your sources, you fool!! ahaahahaha!!!

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        Ah, but perhaps it was a ploy all along, and I tricked you into remembering it for posterity so that your distant future descendants all know to run very far away if they notice their cats start glowing!

        Aha! Ahahaha! It worked! I’m a genius. I’ll accept my Nobel Prize now 🫴

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        13 days ago

        Riiight, because “skull = death” is a social construct, but “jolly roger = pirates” is totally a universal constant that transcends time and culture…