[1280] Fire In The Sky, Page 6
└ posted on Monday, 12 July 2021, by Novil
- Larisa: “What if we don’t manage to kill all humans this way? What if a Zogon secretly took some of them to Zogonia III?”
- Larisa: You and I. We both know what mankind would do to those who blew up their beloved Terra. Our wrath would be eternal. It would be like nothing the universe has ever seen.
- Larisa: Soon, there’d be more humans than ever. 100 billion humans with just one goal. Killing all grays in the most gruesome way possible. And then we’d invent time travel only to do the same thing to your ancestors.
- Larisa: And that’s why you fear us! Much more than we fear you!
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Geez larissa, easy with the HFY
Well, she’s not wrong… Might take a bit though to repopulate that much though and who knows how many generations we can actually keep up the vendetta before we forget or mix up the details?
Chill girl. You already have a boyfriend.
Mommy! Larisa is scaring me!
Okay Larissa, no more HFY for you…..
Science fiction writer Robert Heinlein: “Since the human race has remained mean, ornery, stubborn for all these many, many millennia, I assume there must be survival value in it. I do not expect us to become sweetness and light. If we ever become sweetness and light, why, move over dinosaurs, here we come.”
I don’t know what planet you think you’re on, girl, but it’s name is Earth. Not Terra. Not Gaia. Not Sol III. Not DisneyWorld, Splash Mountain, or The Confederation Homeworld.
She is right about how we are when wronged, though. Our wrath would be eternal.
No, they fear us because Larisa is one of us.
Ichneumon wrote:
I like this quote.
@ Vicious Sand: FYI, “Terra” is most often what aliens and even humans refer to Earth as in science fiction – even going so far as to call humans as “Terrans” instead. Also, it’s literally the Latin word for “Earth.” And Latin-based languages use a similar word: In both Italian and Portuguese it’s “Terra”, in Spanish it’s “Tierra”, in French it’s Terre and in Esperanto it’s “Tero.” BTW: In German it’s “Erde,” in Greek it’s “Gi”, in Romanian it’s “Pamânt”, in Russian it’s “Zemlya”, in Arabic it’s “‘ard”, in Dutch and Afrikaans it’s “Aarde”, in Finnish it’s “Maa”, in Hindi it’s “Dharatee”, in Japanese it’s “Chikyu” and in Chinese it’s “Dìqiú”.
@ xpacetrue:
I notice that a common story-trait in the 1940-70 sci-fi is of a tyrant taking over the world and forcing one name upon the planet. As you have explained, there’s too many flighty and provincial versions of a nickname for Earth.
As wise person once said,
Human beings are scary…
youtu.be/h9AU0hX4Y3Q
@ Vicious Sand:
Terra is the original Latin word for Earth.@ Vicious Sand:
Yeah, you tell ’em, Larissa!
And she’s not wrong either.
Of course, humans can without skipping a beat, hold on to a grudge for those mere 5-6 generations it’d take to repopulate and catch up in interstellar space travel.
We would remodel our war tactics to fit war in space; and since that works opposite of land based warfare (where the defensive position has an edge; whereas in space war, the attacker has an edge) we would come to the conclusion that preemptive strike works best if a war can’t be avoided.
Our greatest feats of war comes not only from the use of pioneering technology and war inventions at the time – but can be more attributed to the sheer ruthlessness and disregard to enemy and allied casualties that those weapons caused. I imagine that in an all-out war against an alien race, we would let our darkest sides shine through. If we were at the receiving end of an upcoming genocide, we would quickly ignore any humanitarian voice, and instead be entirely limitless.
Someone read the HFY forums, I see 🙂
@ Klaus:
We’ve managed to keep feuds going for centuries here on earth, and that’s without an existential threat to our entire species. We might get a few details mixed up, but that would probably just mean a little more collateral damage.
@ Jakob Dam Knudsen:
Don’t forget “Spite”.
“You think you can have this bridge? Nuts to you!”
“But you will die!”
“Yeah, but you are on the bridge with me so you die too! Again, Nuts to you!!”
“Wait, they wiped out *how many* species on their homeworld?! And they weren’t even trying to?!
o.o”
@ Vicious Sand: my Planet is “Terra”!!
I am Italian and Terra is the name of the third planet of our solar system in my language 😉
@ Jakob Dam Knudsen:
To be fair, how many man-hours a day are spent simulating and anticipating war with aliens?
@ Vicious Sand:
“Terra” is how aliens refer to the Earth (see the diagram in the previous page), so it makes sense for Larisa to use the naming convention aliens are familiar with.
Larissa is on full Holy Grail’s Castle on the swamp speech mode.
As fun as this is, the idea of us being the most intimidating thing in the universe….its a lie we like to tell ourselves cause we are dead scared of other humans as we are the most dangerous species in our planet.
But if we came in contact with any true species that was just able to colonize other planets be interplanetary, inter system,or intergalactic we would be primitive and no more to them than other primates than now days are entering the Stone Age are to us.
Our Nuclear power our combined military might would look like a tribe of chimpanzee throwing their sticks and shit at them
If we ever come in contact with intelligent life, may it be alien or AI the last thing we need is arrogance and threats because that would lead to wars we would lose.
Pray that if either singularity or first contact is made colder heads prevail and that alliances can be forged.
to be fair, we, as a species, would totally do that lmao
Uh, no. If they blew up earth we’d be all certainly be dead. Even if we had some people in spaceships, it would take more than 100,000 years to even reach Alpha Centauri. There is no chance of surviving the trip, the spaceships wouldn’t be powerful or reliable enough and the resources would be too scarce.
Name wrote:
Also, forgot to mention, we’d probably technologically regress by centuries, if not millenia.
7arty wrote:
Yeah, she’s definitely reading that subreddit, or at least watching some youtube reads on it
Larisa, considering the situation on Earth, they don’t need to blow us up, they just need to wait for climate change to finish us off…
Klaus wrote:
But not hard, some decent buffet’s. Lots and I mean LOTS of boat drinks…lighten up social mores just a bit. Society actually looks after kids. Yeah, those hairless primates could pull it off. Likely I wont survive to see it mind you, being a prime target for greys and certain elements planet side.
It’s why Turians fear humanity in Mass Effect.
Turians are a martial race. Humans gave them a decent fight before surrendering. Less than 5 percent of humanity is in the military.
Turians greatly feared angering humanity enough to make them all mobilize.
@ xpacetrue:
And also, in Hebrew it’s “Adama” or “Adamah”.
*Grins. Well at least she isn’t trying to save us all by claiming mosquitos are an endangered species.
@ Mysterious Dark Lord v3.2:
Pretty much every language spoken on this planet has a name for it; a point already abundantly illustrated even without adding what the name is in Farsi, Swahili, Lakota, Bosnian, Vietnamese, Zulu, Icelandic…
Oh this so much needs to be on the http://www.reddit/r/HFY subreddit!
That’s one possible reason why aliens might not have revealed themselves to us.
To the rest of the galaxy, we may very well be the Killer Clowns from Outer Space. Or even Saiyans, for that matter.
“There’s no way we’re giving them that tech! It’d be like giving laser eyes to a Xenomorph!”
@ Klaus:
Considering that mathematical experts have estimated that only 75 billion humans have ever existed since the dawn of the human race, it may take quite a long time indeed.
@ That Swedish Guy:
Spite: Revenge carried out before the other person has acted.
@ 7arty:
I was going to say, someone’s been reading some HFY stories…
@ Vicious Sand:
I support the couple of people who pointed out that “Terra” is the name for our planet in the various Romance languages such as Italian and Spanish. I’ll add that in Chinese it’s called “Dì qiú”. And there are many, many more Chinese speakers than speakers of English, or Romance languages, or even all English and Romance speakers put together.
So in my opinion sci-fi writers are perfectly entitled to use the word “Terra”. Or any other word they choose, so long as we know what they mean!
xpacetrue wrote:
That because save for Eris using the Greek form all the other (dwarf) Plants use the Latin names (Discord world ber Eris’s Latin name)
What the hell is HFY? Somebody linked to it but there’s no way I’m clicking on that.
Max wrote:
Humanity, F* Yeah!
@ Max:
It is safe, it is just a creative writing channel on Reddit, some pretty good stuff there.@ Michael:
@ Max:
FTL drives are needed for function time travel otherwise your going to be in the same exact place you left physicaly but the Milky way will be a long way off dependint on how long you travled.
@ Half-Life-Zim:
Same place relative to what? Why wouldn’t you be dragged along with the Milky Way, or any Galaxy, or even Mars?
Don’t forget about the various gods and other supernatural entities that call Earth their home, since we’ve seen them in previous arcs of this comic. I mean, if aliens blew up the planet and killed most of humanity, gods like Thor, Zeus, Shiva, Horus, Susano’o, Hercules, etc. would be pretty ticked off about that. Many of them can be huge jerks a lot of the time, but they do care about Humans and all the life on Earth. Thor fights to protect Humans in the original myths, Zeus is a big softy deep (deep, deep, deep, deeeeep) down as he granted an elderly couple their wish to die at the same time so as not to be widowed, and Susano’o saved a Human maiden from being eaten by the eight headed snake dragon Yamata No Orochi when he was banished from the heavens over a prank he pulled on his sister Amatarasu. Pissing off a race of mortals like us is one thing, but a large amount of anthropomorphic personifications of concepts and cosmic forces is pretty suicidal.
roguebfl wrote:
Is the Greek “gi” I suspect is the namesake of “Gaia”, as in the Greek titan, or the Gaia Hypothesis
Wagstaff wrote:
Roman/Greek
Sol/Helios (the child of a Titians)
Mercury/Hermes
Venus/Aphrodite
Terra/Gaia (Not a Titan, the Titians were her children)
Mars/Ares
Ceres/Demeter
Jupiter/Zues
Saturn/Kronos (This one is a titan)
Neptune/Poseidon
Caelus/Uranus (mistaken that Eris then only Greek name, the Fathermofmthe Titans with Gaia)
Pluto/Hades
Discord/Eris
Makemake is the Easter. Island name of a Polynesian god
Haumea is a Hawaiian name for a Polynesian god
@ Vicious Sand:
The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary says:
terra
/’tɛrǝ/
noun. Pl. terrae /’tɛriː, -ʌɪ/. E17.
[…]
3. (T–) In science fiction, the planet Earth. M20.
I’m amazed at how this comic is really pushing the envelope with how uninteresting and unfunny a webcomic can be. I honestly can’t remember the last time I didn’t just pulls this up, take a disinterested sigh and move on.