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Just as lazy fun speculation, what implications would there be if there was something to this story? Posadist memes aside. I love brainstorming speculative scifi about this stuff as a writing exercise.
One of the fun theories I read once is that the UFO are drones from a long dead society.
If Douglas Adams had the lathe, it'd be something out of the Hitchhiker's guide. Like all of them drones that were originally intended to provide towels on interstellar cruises, and as soon as we invent FTL they're gonna suddenly go active and visible and pierce the hull of the first ships pushing towels in the face of the poor astronauts.
That's an angle that's interesting to explore. Maybe include in it clues that hint at the society's demise, with a hint of veiled contemporary social commentary.
Idk but Tucker has been talking about how UFOs are demons and angels and I'm scared
Me a baby: Aliens are demons and hell is real.
Me an adult: Aliens are comrades and transcend mankind's understanding of the universe.
Me, an entity that is inexorably reformed on every world in every dimension as a warning: We can be the aliens. We can bring clarity and peace to ten thousand worlds.
That's another way to look at it in scifi: How an star-faring civilization achieves communism in its lore. Hints at hinge points in its history that went differently than it's earth parallels and just how material conditions may have been more conducive to the success of its own communist movement.
I enjoyed this read.
Good read. Thanks.