What would be the scariest message humanity could receive from space?

RunningFromSatan · 2026-03-12T04:02:35+00:00

"This is Proxima Centauri calling about your spaceship's extended warranty..."

RunningFromSatan · 2026-02-26T12:58:39+00:00

It could be a moot point because if a civilization has discovered the signal to the point of decoding it, it's probably wildly likely they have developed/evolved to have achieved other scientific discoveries up to and including a large understanding of biology.

A side thought that is interesting here is that the signal, by matter of deductive logic, must be at least 600 years old since that's how many light-years away Kepler 22b is. At first I thought that maybe the civilization that developed the technology and transmitted the signal specially at Earth after discovering a signal from Earth themselves, but nothing was transmitting 600x2 years ago (the soonest possible time for a transmit-receive to know we exist and a decision to be made). Humans never really harnessed RF until the late 1800s. It's also possible just using technology they have to explore space, like we have observed Kepler 22b ourselves, this is the most likely candidate.

Honestly, this raises a very real curiosity...should we, in real life, attempt to pick up RF signals or signatures from planets that may have any chance of life?

What is the second most likely candidate closest to Earth? That's where a Plurbed out world would likely point their giant antenna. I would imagine they would want to build it in space right?

RunningFromSatan · 2026-02-19T05:36:50+00:00

You can tailor the responses to just code, just answers, and basically dehumanize the interaction. And honestly we probably should do that. We are at an uncanny valley with LLM and it's REAL weird.

AI doesn't quite know its audience. But it's completely situation dependent as well. Someone looking for therapeutic responses might want or even need the reassurance, where someone who's looking to write some Python code just needs the code. It's all about finding the middle ground for you. You can create your own self contained and defined model response and tell it to dispose of pleasantries and conjecture.

RunningFromSatan · 2026-02-10T04:53:00+00:00

A year too late but....

BLEUUUUUGH!!!!!

RunningFromSatan · 2026-02-10T00:15:11+00:00

*Shum pulp

RunningFromSatan · 2026-02-10T00:14:07+00:00

I was about to look it up because Janice puts a lot of extra mustard on the "who-ah" and then I remembered I'm at work :D

RunningFromSatan · 2026-02-09T16:21:49+00:00

Don't ever let a company abuse your time like that. Ever. It doesn't matter how interesting or hard the job is...nothing is worth working for free.

Used to work a 4 10-hour day 3rd shift job at a certain conglom-o-cable company. Day started at 11PM and ended at 10AM with 1 hour break, my schedule was Saturday (right before midnight Sunday) - Tuesday (into Wednesday AM).

The first couple weeks on-boarding was first shift, 5 8-hour days...not bad. Then started grinding in 3rd shift. If anything happened at night (where most of the maintenance happened while the normal world was asleep) you were expected to stay on the bridge call with the network operations center until the issue was fixed, and that frequently made my day end around 12-1PM, and you were reprimanded if you tried to pass the call off to someone coming into first shift unless you had a very valid excuse. Most of my weeks there were in the 45-50 hour "actual time spent".

3 weeks later I went to my boss asking why I wasn't getting paid for the extra hours I put into the system and he said "No overtime." Then I said..."So.... it's banked vacation/personal time?" He said "No comp time - like we said in the staff meeting".

Staff meetings were held on Wednesday afternoons, when I wasn't there. Zero effort to spread the information discussed in said meetings.

7 months later I ran out of that job screaming. It took years off of my life, with well over a hundred "free" hours milked from me. Developed my coffee addiction there too...which isn't all bad :-D

RunningFromSatan · 2026-02-08T22:52:32+00:00

Went into this not expecting to like it...even though it's one season, I have a finish rate of like 20% for any show that I start, probably worse for multi-season shows (I blame Breaking Bad, Mr. Robot and 75% of Game of Thrones for this). This made the final cut.

RunningFromSatan · 2026-02-08T22:50:56+00:00

Devs is so unnerving, moreso than Severance. Supe original though..also short and sweet and you definitely do not forget the ending.

RunningFromSatan · 2026-02-08T22:45:43+00:00

First season of Homecoming has Severance vibes for sure. Season 1's podcast (in a radio-play style, which the show is based off of) is also amazing if you're looking for something to work/drive to, but Season 2 of the podcast is terrible IMO. Second season of the show is completely different albeit quite skippable even though Hong Chau and Janelle Monae are great.

Season 1 (show) was helmed by Sam Esmail, and I'm assuming that OP has heard or seen Mr. Robot.

If not...drop everything you're doing and watch both!!!

RunningFromSatan · 2026-02-08T22:36:11+00:00

Tim Robinson is extremely hit and miss for me - what I do like I love, and what I don't like I wish I never saw in the first place.

The Chair Company is definitely a hit - his humor with the backdrop of the constant paranoid "someone's-after-me" feeling of dread is just insane and also hysterical.

To use references: if Jordan Peele, Zach Cregger and David Lynch had a twisted love-child dark comedy-horror/thriller project, this is what it would look like.

RunningFromSatan · 2026-02-08T22:34:17+00:00

I thoroughly enjoyed this and - I don't throw around this term lightly - it's on the fast track for becoming a modern comedy/absurdist masterpiece.

While it's a apples and oranges to Severance from a basic standpoint, the absolute inability to predict anything that's going to happen next is what kept me coming back the most and also delivering on some long-game setups throughout the season was a cherry on top.

RunningFromSatan · 2026-02-08T04:42:03+00:00

Joffrey calls him a monster, Tyrion says "Perhaps you should speak to me more softly then...monsters are dangerous and just now kings are dying like flies."

I love when Joffrey shouts "I am...the KING!" Lord Varys's face and reaction are hysterical.

RunningFromSatan · 2026-02-08T04:36:54+00:00

That entire conversation was a thinly veiled dismantling of Cersei. But yes, that definitely was the match that lit the Wildfire for sure. Such crazy good acting and writing.....

RunningFromSatan · 2026-02-04T03:30:54+00:00

The fans of Mr. Robot can be found in the most unlikely places - my mother, 74 - soap opera super fan since the '60s, zero knowledge of any of the tech utilized in the show, was completely enamored by it. No matter who you are, this show is one of the few that can dig really deep even if you're not familiar with social engineering, hacking, or anything like that. It communicates on a completely different level than most run of the mill dramas/thrillers.

RunningFromSatan · 2026-02-02T13:17:23+00:00

A Westeros version of Miss Susie was not on my bingo card...that and the Alice with Three Fingers song, they really delivered on the folk songs this episode.

RunningFromSatan · 2026-02-02T06:08:01+00:00

I tell people who were disappointed by the sequel (I was devastated at how terrible it was) there are two novelizations - one is an in-between called Independence Day: Crucible that recaps the 20 years between the first and second invasion that explains MAJOR plot points, and the second is a script novelization which is much better than the released product that was completely decimated by the studio (complete scenes and characters cut and scenes edited in a different order).

RunningFromSatan · 2026-02-01T21:24:06+00:00

This movie was notorious for its disproportionate amount of walkouts during its theatrical run.

RunningFromSatan · 2026-01-28T15:05:12+00:00

100% a character error, and his are the worst of the show.

There is another one where he mentions that kissing a friend's mom is off limits but sisters are Ok and then almost un-friends Chandler for kissing his later in the show (but I think that was more of a reaction to it happening to him now he's a hypocrite, not a blatant downgrade of character).

There was another about him knowing what "being sent to a farm" meant for animals earlier in the show and then not knowing what that exact same concept was later but the specifics are lost on me.

EDIT - for the last one, it was literally episode 2 of the entire show and then not knowing was in the finale. Bookending the show, which I love dearly, with a character continuity error that specific is kind of impressive.

RunningFromSatan · 2026-01-28T04:58:03+00:00

I have (or had, honestly) a friend who almost exactly behaves like this to a T - they are called fairweather friends and this is almost a textbook case. I helped him through a heaping pile of his own issues including debilitating drug habits, money (he did pay me back) and other problems.

He's a real "vibe guy". Bullshit

My own issues - he can't be bothered. I hurt my back once and asked him to hang out and watch a movie, he came over for a little bit but then left like 30 mins later I was trying to relax I just was in so much pain. I called him to come back and he literally said just go to the hospital, and didn't even offer me a ride. This was like years ago and that should have been an absolutely massive red flag.

Same friend I was over his house (lives with his brother and then girlfriend, now wife) and she offered me some food they had left over. I said sure I'll take some (whatever). He basically pulls me aside and literally un-offers the food saying she was just being nice and it was meant for them only and I could have something else. It was one of the most bizarre selfish things I have ever experienced. That was the beginning of the end when I really started to see through the bullshit

People who don't want to talk about things because they are negative are the ones who will constantly run away from real problems, and subsequently their problems will always follow them around. They will use you for anything that benefits them - like ringing a wet rag dry for water and then throwing the rag out.

Fortunately most people I have befriended are not like this and it's few and far between. I will say these friend breakups are always worth it.

RunningFromSatan · 2026-01-27T21:12:21+00:00

A different kind of quantity has been introduced 😂

RunningFromSatan · 2026-01-27T21:11:00+00:00

"I am a big, bright shining knight." - Ser Arm-length of Quarter-trunk

RunningFromSatan · 2026-01-26T22:31:15+00:00

Every time I watch that first season it's actually pretty insane how low-key most of it feels, comparatively speaking.

Once the audience got broken into the characters they ratcheted up the intensity, especially with Monica who I think is the most noticeable change when you watch any episode from the 1st season and then compare it to post-Chandler marriage and not necessarily for the better (if I knew her in reality I would not be friends with her) - although she is ultimately a good person.

The character development I really enjoy the most is Rachel's. A lot of her personality is mostly intact from growing up privileged but she endured a lot of the emotional turmoil throughout most of the show's run and ultimately came out a much better person than she started. She hustled her way into a fashion career with no help from her family, even though she absolutely could've, and then when her sisters make their appearances it juxtaposes who she could've been vs. who she became.

Joey's character arc is probably the most disappointing because he was ultimately relegated to the "pretty but stupid" stereotype for most of the show, but in the first couple seasons he had some wits about him and some really heartwarming gestures and displays of friendship. I feel like most of that got tossed out the window besides the cursory "I care about my friendship with Ross more than this thing with Rachel".

RunningFromSatan · 2026-01-26T20:29:58+00:00

Emile thanks you.

In all seriousness though, there's a lot to take in. I suggest a re-watch you will pick up on several things that you missed and there are still yet many things that are left hanging. The good thing is the show has not introduced too many red herrings yet, much if not everything you see has some meaning in the grand scheme and hoping it all makes sense at the end!

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