Based on I Robot and Flash Gordon, I thought that this would be stories about the wonders of space, not stories about people dying all the time and mass extinctions.
First topic is the story where the astronauts were thought to be insane and then killed. Then the psychiatrist killed himself. My line of thinking was similar to the astronauts, "wow they finally got recognized". When the 'reporters' started talking about how they were from other planets, I was starting to get confused, then the explorers finally figured it out. Smh cant believe all my earth homies got popped like that. smh. I started thinking about how we would react if people popped up on Earth, we would probably lock them up and study them, or maybe be polite and invite them into our homes, provided they don't exhale fire or something. Or provided they don't burn up our bodies with chicken pox the same way we burned theirs. Which made me sad, but it was also an interesting parallel to the way that European diseases killed all the Natives. At least now they didn't have to deal with all their expeditions being killed off. Which was also weird because you would think that they would have like radio connection to earth or something. Or maybe they would be like live streaming it on Facebook. That kind of stopped me from being into the story because I was way to confused as to why it was even an issue.
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ReplyDeleteI like the humorous aspect of this post, and I like the parallel to the Native Americans.
ReplyDeleteI hadn't thought about this, but, if someone came to Earth, looked exactly like a human, and insisted that they were from Mars, the chance that the police get called on them and they end up going to a mental institution is almost 100%
ReplyDeleteI guess they didn't have time to use the radio connection? Get them out of the ship, don't let them use their equipment--that seemed to be the theme.
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