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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago

"I mean we've been coming here for 50 years and performing anal probes and all that we have learned is that one in ten doesn't really seem to mind."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tZar4wRP40

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

~~Uhm, if the owner of the site is here, the "random" button presents you with an xml.~~

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

Not for me. Did you maybe find an easter egg?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Oh right, i have third-party scripts blocked by default on mobile. Now it works.

Still, uh, why was it made that way, that it needs JS to random-load a page?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Without JS the button points to the RSS feed. This serves as a placeholder. The button was most likely copied and pasted.

Upon page load the website makes a call to the /rand.php endpoint, which returns a date in ISO8601 format. That is then used to produce the actual link.

				<script>
		$.get("/rand.php",function(data){
			$('.cc-navaux').attr('href','https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/' + data);
		});
		</script>

(lines 172ff. of the HTML source) Why? Ask the author.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Obviously Earth has passed the test.

They were given a task, found a group for whom the task would be ideal in both their willingness and ability to do it, and presented this group to the task giver. They did not force a slave class, they didn't do a lottery, they didn't see it as a chance to get rid of undesirables, they just sent people who legitimately wanted to go.

There was no victim, thus there was no crime.

If these aliens can't tell, they're morons who clearly didn't think it through.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

If these aliens can't tell, they're morons who clearly didn't think it through.

There's a popular phrase:"breeding like rabbits". We view rabbits like some sex crazed breeding machines, like all they do is fuck. What if we're the galactic rabbits and the other galactic civilizations aren't trying to fuck everything that moves? Maybe for them kinks aren't a thing and as such their test makes sense because you can't prepare for something you can't imagine (or believe to be impossible).

Imagine you want to prank an alien by putting a bucket on top of the door. When the alien walks in the bucket falls on them. Brilliant, except the alien doesn't move the door because it phases through the door. Are you stupid for making a prank that expects the victim to be solid? Or did you just make the prank based on the knowledge you have, which includes knowing you can't just phase through things.

The aliens weren't dumb. Maybe they did think in through and they thought it would be impossible to be intelligent being to want to fuck extraterrestrials.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago

Sir, this is a Wendys

[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's weird... I feel like any civilisation worth joining the galactic federation would have no issues finding volunteers to save their civilisation anyway (though maybe not 14 minutes...)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Time is a question of logistics not proclivity, 14 min is not a long ask for 100,000 with a wide enough net. Heck you could probably fill it in the US alone in that time period.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

As an individual, when you’re presented with the choice of giving up yourself for the rest of mankind, don’t you think 10 minutes (minus the time it takes to receive the call) is a bit tight to think about it?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

You underestimate the number of us who would fuck off the earth and leave our current boring lonely miserable unfulfilling lives in a second.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

the isekai protagonist caste

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

... To have HOT ALIEN SEX!!!

I feel like that qualifier makes the decision easier for some. That and the low number of volunteers required would definitely trigger FOMO and people would sign up more quickly.

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