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Nevilledog

(54,664 posts) Mon Jun 28, 2021, 01:01 AM Jun 2021

Neil deGrasse Tyson has some sage advice about first contact with a Space Alien...

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Neil deGrasse Tyson
@neiltyson

If I ever met a Space Alien, I’d resist shaking its extended appendage, not knowing for sure the details of alien anatomy.

5:53 PM · Jun 27, 2021

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Neil deGrasse Tyson has some sage advice about first contact with a Space Alien... (Original Post) Nevilledog Jun 2021 OP

Glove up Neil dweller Jun 2021 #1

You mean like Roy did . . . Journeyman Jun 2021 #2

LOL! Buckeye_Democrat Jun 2021 #6

I crush so hard on Dr. Tyson Skittles Jun 2021 #3

Yup, if the alien turns it's head and cough's, you might have a friend for life😳 nt mitch96 Jun 2021 #4

If aliens were to land with communicating in mind Chainfire Jun 2021 #5

Put out the universal plague flag? whistler162 Jun 2021 #7

Firesign Theater had some advice, too GreatCaesarsGhost Jun 2021 #8

His option, command! Kid Berwyn Jun 2021 #9

dweller

(27,479 posts)

1. Glove up Neil

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Mon Jun 28, 2021, 01:07 AM

Jun 2021

Take one for the team

✌🏻

Journeyman

(15,401 posts)

2. You mean like Roy did . . .

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Mon Jun 28, 2021, 03:51 AM

Jun 2021

Buckeye_Democrat

(15,444 posts)

6. LOL!

Reply to Journeyman (Reply #2)

Mon Jun 28, 2021, 10:16 AM

Jun 2021

Or accidentally rape their waste tubes, thereby dooming humanity to a lifetime retribution of anal probes.

Skittles

(168,369 posts)

3. I crush so hard on Dr. Tyson

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Mon Jun 28, 2021, 03:56 AM

Jun 2021

yes INDEED

mitch96

(15,546 posts)

4. Yup, if the alien turns it's head and cough's, you might have a friend for life😳 nt

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Mon Jun 28, 2021, 08:18 AM

Jun 2021

Chainfire

(17,757 posts)

5. If aliens were to land with communicating in mind

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Mon Jun 28, 2021, 10:11 AM

Jun 2021

Perhaps we should let some other, more peaceful, species do our talking for us.

whistler162

(11,155 posts)

7. Put out the universal plague flag?

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Mon Jun 28, 2021, 10:35 AM

Jun 2021

Play

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GreatCaesarsGhost

(8,619 posts)

8. Firesign Theater had some advice, too

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Mon Jun 28, 2021, 12:35 PM

Jun 2021

Avoid eye contact. If it has no eyes. avoid all contact.

Kid Berwyn

(22,167 posts)

9. His option, command!

Reply to GreatCaesarsGhost (Reply #8)

Mon Jun 28, 2021, 01:20 PM

Jun 2021

Honey, they’re in everybody’s eggs.

They all play the piano just beautifully.

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