TheUglyBarnacle
You mean there exists in Real Life more advanced and sophisticated alien races that we can compare ourselves to? Fascinating, I did not know this.
Edited by SeanMurrayI
Maybe, but who needs aliens when we've got cats?
(Or dogs, cows, chickens, cockroaches or flatworms. Humanity's stupidity is matched only by its arrogance.)
"Do what thou wilst shalt be the whole of the law." ~ Aleister Crowley
- Stargate SG 1
- Subverted by the fact that humanity is the second evolution/biological descendants of the Ancients.
I'm asking for elaboration on this one. How exactly is biology/evolution subverting human stupidity?
- In Babylon 5, humans start out as the only race that doesn't have artificial gravity that works without a rotating hull. They're also among the dumber of the "bad guy" races, starting a war at one point by firing on a ship that had opened its weapon ports in salute. However, it's revealed that Humans Are Special, because Earth's hat is building ever-changing, diverse communities, something the other races aren't able to do as easily.
Humans are not the only people without AG. Most B5 races don't have AG. AG is a sign of advanced tech. And they fired because the open gun ports were combined with stealth tech and "shut your jump engines down" scanners. There was a legitimate concern that the Minbari were about to attack.
- In The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy, Earth is listed in the original edition as "harmless." It was later revised to "mostly harmless."
This is a poorly written example: it doesn't refer to humans, only to their Insignificant Little Blue Planet.
Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: About humans in and of themselves, or compared to other creatures?
, started by HiddenFacedMatt on Sep 6th 2011 at 4:50:31 PM
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman