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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Class 13 Death World

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

The call it "Dirt". There was a misunderstanding with the word "Earth" and it got translated to soil or dirt, so they picked "Dirt".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Meat Packing Facility #173

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If we're going by Columbus logic, probably "Jupiter"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Can we get to Jupiter through Earth? No, but at least there’s beaver.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Blue Marble probably

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Salty Water Ball With Some Dirt Patches

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are the aliens going to rape and enslave?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Very likely

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Translated to English, probably “Name-of-Star” 3, as in 3rd planet from our star, same system as Star Trek. The key difference is Columbus had no idea where he was going, and aliens have to know exactly where they’re going. Can’t shoot into space and find a planet by accident.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Chances are you can find a planet by accident, it's just going to take a very long time

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

“This isn’t Mars? You’re not martians? Ah fuck you, you’re martians.”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

“West Martians”.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Water planet with cancerous hairless simian population.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Probably some Italian gibberish.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

The Wet Ball of Trash

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Hmm, so they were aiming for something else, but got here instead because they had crank theories about the shape of the universe? (Columbus thought Earth was egg-shaped instead of a sphere, like everyone had actually known since the time of ancient Greece)

They call us something translating to "the Andromidans".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I mean you don't have to go with the analogy fully, but yeah, that's a deep answer, I suppose.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"Planet of the money-crazy hairless apes that can't relax"

Or "Klaus"...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

A fixer-upper.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Open season on the tasty meat creatures

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

their new colony

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Probably not Alienia