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fossilesque @mander.xyz

10mo ago

The Signal

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- Human is endoskeleton optimized crab. Arthropod crab is exoskeleton optimized crab.
Speak for your self.
anyone with extensive use of kitchen tongs has a primordial understanding of our clicky-clack fates
- It's true. It's so satisfying to click those tongs, how can we NOT turn into crab?
  
  reincarnation + carcinisation = clickyclackclack
You say we're not crabs, but what do you call car culture and the main battle tank.
We're Hermit crabs!
- We’re cosplaying as crabs. We are no crabs.
For reference, just in case you're actually a crab and have been living under a rock: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation
Meanwhile the crabs on earth: "yo wtf??"
- Hey when they can build radio antennas then they can talk to the aliens. Until then they can go play at the beach.
  
  Throw radios in the ocean?
- Which crabs do we choose to represent us?
  Snow crabs? King crabs? The voice actor for Mr Krabs?
  
  Who is "us"? You got a crab in your pocket?
  
  The Kurgan would be a solid choice.
Suddenly another voice breaks through the silence:
- Ded-a-chek?
  
  Dad-a-chum?
Are you sure it wasn't "Are you horses yet"?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorry_to_Bother_You
- I just read the synopsis. Wtf did in just read?
  
  It's an excellent movie, I would recommend watching it, even if the synopsis is insane.
  
  So I saw your comment, went to read the synopsis, and was nodding along like "Yeah, this good, what seemed weird?"...and then hit the line "Looking for the bathroom, Cash discovers a shackled half-horse, half-human hybrid who begs him for help."
  ...wtf?
  Of course now I have to watch it
  
  A synopsis for a great fucking movie.
Now that's how a short story is written!
- Taste like crab
  Talk like people
Could happen any time.
Crabs do evolve fairly often.
Oh god oh fuck someone out in the black taught them to read
- Learning an alien language is what computers and experts are for. It's not easy, but it should be doable. See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OpoWJbo7oM
Let's remake StarTrek 4, The Voyage Home...but with crabs!
- That should be the title as well
Alternate plot line for the movie Contact
"Negative. We are trains."
- Negative. I am a meat popsicle.
  
  Big badda boom
  
  I know what you mean. But still...
  Not sure if disgusting or delicious.
- Toot toot!
We have an over abundance of drawn butter.
https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/24/the-time-machine/222/chapter-11/
Why is it always crabs
- You uh... probably want to get that looked at then? :-P
  
  Even our STDs have carcinized.
Do you want Prador? Because this is how you get Prador.
Note: You do not want Prador.
- Neal Asher's space operas are some of my favorite books. The Prador, the AI, Spatterjay, he even has a short story with terrifying carnivorous sheep in it!
Maryland responds, "but wait! Where are you?"
War of the worlds?
- I was recalling that Wells' "The Time Machine" has a crab like thing the main character encounters near the end...!
  
  Me too, but as a reference in one of Andy Griffith`s books that I forgot its name in english.

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