George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽Now THAT would be terrifying.
Trojan Duck@georgetakei Someone should write a script. I know this guy Nick who's really good.
Florian Judith@georgetakei "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish"
Luuk_AaldersThe hitchhiker's guid to the galaxy 😊
istoff@Luuk_Aalders @Florian @georgetakei
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#programmersjoke
Guid
@Luuk_Aalders @Florian @georgetakei
Guide misspelled as guid triggered a programming response. Guid is a unique generated value used in databases. It's late. I didn't need to be that geeky.
Guide misspelled as guid triggered a programming response. Guid is a unique generated value used in databases. It's late. I didn't need to be that geeky.
Mrinappropriate
Minski
LeoBurr@georgetakei Didn’t that happen, George? And when they came back years later and the whales they were talking to were gone, they started attacking Earth, so you had to go back to 1985 in a DeLorean or something to make sure your parents met and got married or am I mixing up movies again…
Glyn Wolf 
@LeoBurr @georgetakei No, it’s Star Trek IV. You know, the one where the whales invade Earth with this huge space armada. Captain Sulu doesn’t take any shit though and knocks one out with one punch and yells, “Welcome to Earth!”
Robots can be gay deal with it@glynwolf @LeoBurr @georgetakei This is the one where we see the Klingon whale of prey for the first time right?
fdr@georgetakei the worst case is that they tried to communicate with an extinct species and you don't have a spaceship to go back in time to de-extinct it
Lukas@georgetakei I mean I don't think humanity merits much more than side-eyeing at the moment...
Darwin Woodkawhale eyes
sonicJazzMonkey@georgetakei someone should make a movie about that ..... 😃 🖖
Biason::Julio::new();@georgetakei Where did I see that before... 🤔
Squiggle@georgetakei I suspect aliens have already communicated with the octopus.
Paul Chambers🚧...or just cats. They only talked to cats.
Urwumpe@paul @georgetakei if they do this, they at least know who really runs this planet...
Thrythlind - Decompressing@georgetakei Weren't you in a movie based on that scenario?
Stu Duerson, machina exo deus
Sebastian 
@georgetakei Like Star Trek IV
Keith SoltysI read a story a few years ago with a similar theme. Aliens arrive, do inscrutable stuff, and leave. On the way out of the solar system, they turn off the sun. The last line was "Presently it began to get cold." I don't remember the author. It was in a year's best anthology.
I've contacted the Merril Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy at Toronto Public Library and if I get an answer, I'll post it here.
The story I was thinking of is "In Fading Suns and Dying Moons" by John Varley. It's in Gardner Dozois' Years Best SF #9 from 2004.
From the Merril's email:
"In it, aliens are collecting butterflies and it is from the point of view of a lepidopterist. He speaks with them, and all they say is that they plan to take the butterflies and cultivate them on a cold planet - never telling the humans that the planet they plan to use is Earth."
They turn off the sun and it does get cold.
ehurtley 
@georgetakei Weren’t you in a movie about that? :-P
Citoyen européen Ray Hindle ✔️@georgetakei Considering how much land surface we have in comparison to sea, the obvious first place for aliens to look would be the oceans. As Douglas Adams wrote, “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish.”
Moved@georgetakei
Reader, they did.
Reader, they did.
Hruturaj Ravi Deshmukh@georgetakei there is a ocean/sea spider that looks like biblical correct angel
Dave Fischer
Rare Moment Feather Star Is Caught Swimming
GentleMan Gef⬆️
If anyoneknows, @georgetakei knows
Joe Heafner@georgetakei @Theorem_Poem How do we know they haven’t?
Sunanda@heafnerj we're smart enough have noticed, right?
RIGHT? 😭 @georgetakei
@Theorem_Poem @georgetakei Uhhhhhhhhhh okay. If you say so.
Hans-Cees 🍋🌲🦔🦦🐝🦋🐛🚅🇸🇳🇵🇾🇹🇬🇹🇲@georgetakei Roadside Picnic remains the most realistic alien visitation story ever...
Pepijn Schmitz@georgetakei Weren't you _in_ this movie?
«Harvey Esquire»@georgetakei
The most scariest encounters that people have with space aliens are the medical exams ... but at least they are not going to get billed for them.
Colin 🏴🇳🇿@HarveyEsq @georgetakei Try The Space Between Us by Doug Johnstone. Excellent stuff.
Pria@georgetakei although probably the most sensible thing to do!
Truth Seeker@georgetakei I’m convinced there’s an octopus planet somewhere in our galaxy.
Dalimil Gala 🇨🇿 🥥@georgetakei Unleash the Kraken!
CatMom916@georgetakei I'm not on Xitter--is there any push back on this post for how stupid it is?
Winter TrabexIsn't that the plot of Star Trek IV The Voyage Home?
Estarriol, Terrorist Dragon@georgetakei wwell yes, think what the whales, dolphins and octopi would say about the moneys infesting the land like a parasite....
Corry Thompson@georgetakei or came to earth and bypassed the oceans this time and went to only one mind. Then the world would have to worry. Great post!!!
@georgetakei "The Alien Years" by Robert Silverberg- aliens arrive, hang out doing their own thing for 50 years, and then leave. Don't bother with us at all unless we attack them. Good book
√-ʇoɾəuɐnɾ (Etaoin Shrdlu)@georgetakei So terrifying that one’s great great great grandfather couldn’t bring himself to speak… but luckily we remember him (and hey, we get it!) anyway.
Sarah M@georgetakei I know they made this into at least 2 different movies I recall. Would love to have that rise to double if not triple digits. 😁
@DragonHunterD @georgetakei Indeed, certain sections near the end of Neal Stephenson’s Seveneves might deserve… well, an evolution of such treatment. ☄️🧜
Nat@georgetakei that would actually make a lot of sense
WedgeStratos@georgetakei Ecco The Dolphin.
Alexander Knochel@georgetakei Someone should make a movie
Zorro Notorious MEB 🪷🪷🪷@georgetakei Wasn't there a SciFi movie in the 1950s with that plot?
ehem. dystopod 🔥🏚️🗿☮️🌍❤️🌱
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Stormcat@georgetakei And then a few weeks later, all the world's dolphins just up and vanish, leaving behind the message "So long, and Thanks for all the fish".
firewyre@georgetakei Star Trek IV :)
@georgetakei That would also be a great movie!
pagangod (he/him)@georgetakei Seems likely that, if they talked to something in the ocean for a few days, that they'd surgically excise human civilization from the face of the earth.
Sid@georgetakei
just the starspawn having an underwater picnic with cthulhu
just the starspawn having an underwater picnic with cthulhu
🛐 6ft3goddess 🛐Aliens to the Kraken: You good, Son? These humans seem kinda raggedy.
The Kraken: Hey, I mind my business. Every once in a while me and the Missus grab a bite to eat in Bermuda, but other than that. It's all gravy.
Aliens: Say less, but hit me if shit gets real.
The Kraken: Aight Bet
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