Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for March 07, 2025

More advanced. Har de har har har.

I’m surprised that Brewster saw the fallacy of that statement. He’s not quite as dumb as I thought.

It’s a feature of humans, not a bug. Um, wait . . . .

A species mean enough to destroy each other and their own world wouldn’t hesitate to destroy whoever or whatever would dare to invade them.

Humans to the pos, nih, ’em ’ej in tlhop of mah. Chah will not suq away this poh!

Remember the episode of Stargate SG-1 where the aliens tell the humans that their species is so advanced they’ve forgotten how to make war? They need us because we are savage brutes.

Wrong!

what’s more advanced than talking insects?? a praying mantis

next episode the return of the pastry people

There was a short story MANY years ago, in our early atomic years. The alien scout reported back to their superiors. They declared Earth to be off limits because its people were detonating nuclear devices in their ATMOSPHERE!

I suspect that the more civilized aliens cause extinction events on planets that seem likely to come out shooting until we evolve better manners.

SHHHH! Nobody tell them!

Aliens advanced enough to observe we humans destroying our only planet and each other would wonder WTF is the matter with us.

We don´t bee hive as well as we should.

I see you have another problem, bad intel.

Well… we don’t eat each other.

Yet.

Ironic. D’vorah in “Mortal Kombat 11” declares insects superior because their hive mind prevents infighting.

No that it’s said . . . They’re bugging out.

As long as the uber-wealthy keep us arguing over abortion, gay rights, voting rights/corruption, gun rights, China, Russia, Ukraine, the Middle East, morally corrupt politicians, healthcare, vaccines, bird flu, homelessness, veterans, social security, the price of gas, the price of eggs, EVs, immigration, inflation, unemployment, public/private education, religion, and God-knows-what-else-tomorrow—as long as they keep us occupied with that, they can keep running the country like a giant pyramid scheme that funnels most of our money into the pockets of the 1% while the rest of us do all the work just to keep our heads above water.

See? Even Brewster knows