The year is 2030, astronauts have for the first time landed on Mars, they found a cave with human skeletons, and a message written on the wall. What does it say?

I'm gonna go with this:

"We screwed up our Planet, Earth is our last hope for humanity"

That'd be the biggest UNO reverse card ever.

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snooggums@kbin.social · 20 pts · 2y (2 replies)

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.

atocci@kbin.social · 11 pts · 2y

First contact with extraterrestrials would be a copypasta, wouldn't it

TheArstaInventor@kbin.social · 2 pts · 2y
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thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee · 12 pts · 2y (1 reply)

"You just lost The Game"

PP_BOY_@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Motherfu

Montagge@kbin.social · 11 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Drums....drums in the deep. There is no way out.

lol3droflxp@kbin.social · 4 pts · 2y

The real Kazhad Dûm was the friends we made along the way.

KapmK@kbin.social · 11 pts · 2y

We've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty

Rhaedas@kbin.social · 8 pts · 2y

I like both of the "Earth is our final chance" ideas, but they don't explain why we find skeletons.

Instead how about the message being "Go back through the portal before it closes!" That's reminiscent of situations like the first planet found in Stargate: Universe where they learn that there's a time limit, or the one Star Trek: TNG where they find a potential stable wormhole but Geordi sees it may not be and the Ferengi scientists don't believe him.

jordanlund@lemmy.one · 8 pts · 2y

Or a variation:

"[Untranslatable] destructed leaving just an asteroid belt. Mars now uninhabitable. Terraforming of Earth seems to have been successful now that the saurian races are eliminated. Trying again."

Ragnell@kbin.social · 7 pts · 2y

"We apologize for the inconvenience."

Hyperreality@kbin.social · 6 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Time begins and then time ends.

And then time begins once again.

It is happening now, it has happened before, it will surely happen again.

Taleya@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 2y

His Shadow is coming. His Shadow looms.

Bizarroland@kbin.social · 1 pts · 2y

Anything that happens twice will happen thrice

Revan343@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 2y (1 reply)

"First"

noisefree@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

"We're not what you think we are."

Pietson@kbin.social · 2 pts · 2y

We are golden, we are golden.

rebul@kbin.social · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Kilroy was here

h3bertk0rnfeld@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Red wuz here

streetman@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

"Don't trust Jeff"

TheArstaInventor@kbin.social · 6 pts · 2y

"Don't trust Elon"

timetravelingnoodles@kbin.social · 4 pts · 2y

Be quiet or They’ll hear you

pensa@kbin.social · 4 pts · 2y

"There are no bananas here"

rodti@kayb.ee · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

“SEND NUDES.”

TheArstaInventor@kbin.social · 0 pts · 2y

my brain: Why the fuck did I not think about this before

Klicnik@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y

"Please pick up after yourselves. I am not your maid."

MataVatnik@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Xariphon@kbin.social · 3 pts · 2y

"Halfdan Bjornson carved these runes; they're really high up."

w2tpmf@kbin.social · 3 pts · 2y

He who is valiant and pure of spirit may find the Holy Grail in the Castle of aaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 2y

"Aim for the stars they said..."

MeccAnon@kbin.social · 2 pts · 2y

"Fuck Spez"

AnonTwo@kbin.social · 2 pts · 2y

"People are all the same"

TheArstaInventor@kbin.social · 1 pts · 2y

"Don't trust Elon"

calmblue75@kbin.social · 1 pts · 2y

If you're here, you probably did a bad job with Earth. Level failed! (Ambient Level failed music)

IronCorgi@kbin.social · 1 pts · 2y

Don't mess with time.

JWBananas@startrek.website · 1 pts · 2y

Two peanuts were walking down the street. One was assaulted. Peanut.

astrsk@artemis.camp · 1 pts · 2y
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Somewhereunknown7351@kbin.social · 1 pts · 2y
ArtieShaw@kbin.social · 1 pts · 2y

"We were not mission critical."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stars_on_Mars I'm watching it and I'm only slightly ashamed.

D-list celebrities (I'm being generous) compete to win something. I'm not sure what they win. An escape from irrelevance? It's sort of hosted by William Shatner, who reads pre-taped clips to setup challenges and introduce new contestants. And let me tell you, he earned all $500 he was paid to do it.

I'd never heard of 90% of the people involved, which makes it easier to point and laugh. Lance Armstrong is on it and (surprise) he's a toxic asshole. Andy Richter (who I liked back when he controlled the universe) is on it and he's also a bit of an ass.

In any case, it will now be my headcanon that the rejected stars aren't rescued and sent back to Earth, but are forced to die in a Martian cave. And that Shat knew the whole time.