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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 35 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Panspermia, because pee is stored in the balls.

But I like Stanislaw Lem's version. Some aliens used Earth as an illegal garbage dump. That's why humans are so prone to pollution.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"Pollution" is just a natural process of excretion. One could say that the oxidation of earth is cyanobacteria "polluting" their oxygen waste. But I guess how humans pollute the earth is far weirder than anything and quicker than ever experienced.

[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Head not safe in atmosphere. Penis okay.

[–] match@pawb.social 10 points 1 month ago

stand to pee technology

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

Actually, those moutaintops would have eroded and gone after 4 billion years.

[–] Onyxonblack@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

It's like a silly version of the opening scene from the movie Prometheus.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

This made more sense than the opening of Prometheus.

[–] lunarul@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Except in Prometheus the effect was intentional.

[–] shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 month ago

Would've been better if it were shit, since some people are so full of it.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I've read a study years ago, that we are likely one of the earliest civilizations in the known universe; it wouldn't have been possible a few billion years ago. I don't remember the details, just that it made sense.

Edit: right, i think it was the insufficient amount of heavier elements.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm a proponent of the Rare Intelligence Hypothesis for the Fermi Paradox, amount with this. I suspect common Great Filters include of the problem is the amount of heavier elements in sufficient quantities not being high enough, especially phosphorous which is still fairly rare in most parts of the galaxy; waterbound intelligence unable to utilize fire for metal refining and other purposes; heavier gravity making rockets impossible and even mass-driver gravity well escapes difficult; the fact that advanced intelligence is a really rare even after 4 billion years on earth and has so far only produced 1 lasting advanced tool using species that has passed into the stone age, much less past it; and cyclically self-destructing civilizations that ultimately burn through the resources necessary to escape the planet in any meaningful way.

Cyclical self-destruction is basically reaching nuclear war or other planetary deviation tech, loosing a few centuries or millennia of progress, rinse and repeat until you can't leave the planet. I lump anthropic climate catastrophe in there. Hard to get the population and tech up to space-age when you've made 90% of your planet uninhabitable.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I've found this.

And honestly, phosphorus being required for DNA, doesn't neccessarily make complex live without it impossible.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

We are the Great Old Ones.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I mean it lead to people like Trump, Netanyahu and Putin. So there is at least some piss involved

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That was urine right? .... not the emissions of an alien orgasm, which to us would look like someone peeing

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well he says it's a puddle of piss

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

maybe piss and cum is the same thing for their species

[–] littlewonder@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Is urination against the prime directive?

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

This is why Captain Archer needed to chop up a log.

[–] MrSmith@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Of Urine-us?