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They COULD be evil aliens, but they didn’t come here for us. We showed up LOOOOOOOONG after they took over.

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So we are the evil aliens then

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Honestly, it checks out.

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from an evolutionary biology standpoint… We’re basically on the order (and quite possibly worse than) of the giant meteor that killed off the dinos. Like, if you tally up the number of extinctions caused by humans, the Anthropocene Era is a mass extinction event.

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I highly suggest reading the Hitchikers guide to the galaxy. A theme along these lines comes up, but less evil and more incompetent.

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Plants don’t appear to be of a different origin than animals on this planet. They share most of the genetic code* with all other life we know about. The simplest explanation is that we share a common origin, and furthermore that was a common ancestor that likely began from simpler materials on this planet.

*The genetic code is the translation of nucleotide triplets into amino acid sequences

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If we want to believe the evil alien theory, viruses might actually fit the bill better than plants, with fungi as a possible unlikely second.

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There is one type of virus that you can not convince me isn’t some kind of mechanical device. Other viruses and bacteria look organic; but bacteriophage look straight up like man-made robots.

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I just looked up some images out of curiosity and you aren’t lying. It looks like a little spider/robot/drone thing with the sole purpose of injecting it’s syringe full of DNA into things. Thanks for the rabbit hole.

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This is by far my favorite answer.

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Fungi scare me

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If it makes you feel better, we descend from fungi.

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“Daddy, why do people have to eat?”

[long pull from cig] “Plants… They came here. Now we are enslaved to eat them. It is their way.”

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This is…certainly a question I just read.

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