Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for June 24, 2015

We aren’t donut people (they’re the alien species in the next planetary system to the right).

At least the aliens would respect them for trying to be truthful… – Or they could decide humans are uncivilized and feel the need to destroy them, wondering if they declared themselves as unappetizing from experience …

I think Mr. Hawking has warned about giving out invitations to aliens by way of messages on our space probes.

Just include a food label with all of the byproducts that we’ve been consuming.

Yeah, we are a little gamey, I guess, but with a good marinade overnight in the fridge we’re not that bad…Red wine, balsamic vinegar, soy sauce, five large garlic cloves and a table spoon of honey, a little salt and pepper…Best on the grill….

Were are full of heavy metals, antibiotics, preservatives, and pesticides. ‘I dare you to eat us!’

Brilliant idea, Ryan – let’s add labels to people who only consume organic food. They’re organic too!

“We’re feeling better now but people are still dying. Come visit!”

Given the huge number of possible variations on organic compounds, and the fact that slight variations in structure (for instance, left or right handedness of amino acids) can turn an otherwise identical compound from nutrient to poison, it’s actually pretty unlikely that alien life would be able to eat us. Or vice versa. Unless, of course, it turns out that life did not arise on its own but was in some way seeded, in which case the whole galaxy would have the same biochemistry.

“Friends of space, how are you all? Have you eaten yet? Come visit us if you have time”

Actually on the Voyager I messages record, and used in a short story about it with the obvious outcome.

To serve man…or not?

Even assuming the existence of intelligent aliens, it would taken MILLIONS OF YEARS to reach them, or for them to reach us. Also, finding such a small object in the vastness of space would be impossible. And by then, the RAM of any spacecraft computer would probably be unrecoverable.

“Don’t put that in your mouths, kid, you don’t know where it’s been.”

I’ve heard long pig is good eating. We keep the pork barrels in large buildings with a lot of marble & granite.

Why don’t stay with the classic: “Mostly harmless”.

@Loadmaster—-Scientists have long discussed the possibility of the existence of “wormholes” in space, that would drastically reduce travel time. There is also the possibility of an actual"Warp Drive" for spacecraft. The theory is like taking a piece of paper that is 12 inches long. If you fold it over so the top end is nearly touching the bottom end, then you no longer have to travel 12 inches to go from one end to the other. You just jump across the now shorter distance from one end to the other.