"Most Likely Reasons For Aliens To Visit Earth" Topic

The idea stolen from this post, why would advanced aliens come to the third rock from the sun?

A couple starters:

- They made their home planet uninhabitable.

- The lost a game of truth of dare.

- They are benign explorers from an interstellar collective.

- We are crunchy, and delicious with catsup.

Curiosity.

Or, to quote Sir Edmund Hillary, because it's there.

* to refuel/restock
* to worship
* to conquer!!!

Bathroom stop

To eat space popcorn and watch our daily show of utter nonsense.

To borrow money.

Pizza!

Yes, PIZZA!

To join a jovial club hosting a convivial multi-player horse and musket wargame set on beautifully landscaped terrain with superb painted forces. We shall forgive them for not bringing suitable snacks and drink to share as they tell us this is their first visit. We also hope they will not eat us before departing.

This may be why Sci-Fi games are rare at our club.

Have fun.

In hopes of getting directions.

This could be a Letterman Top Ten List.

10. They've run out of iron and/or lanthanum

9. They can't believe the stories about how insanely self-destructive the dominant species is and want to see for themselves

8. Meditation/surfing retreats with dolphins

7. Black Friday sales.

6. Topless beaches.

5. Coffee and croissants at a cafe on the Seine in May.

4. Best movies in known space

3. Good place for a Пикник на обочине (Roadside Picnic)*

2. They're made out of meat!**

1. Earth girls are easy***

*A story, a movie, a game:
link

**Classic story:
link

***Great movie:
imdb.com/title/tt0097257

It seemed like a good idea at the time. Did I mention that they were stoned?

Sugar's BBQ in Chattanooga, TN.

Joe Collins

Bored.

Followed by:

Really bored.

Like HMS Exeter said – they are completely lost

Or maybe they are renegades looking for adventure, refugees fleeing oppression/servitude/failed rebellion or just old fashioned criminals looking to make a quick buck out beyond the frontier (Illegal Aliens by Nick Pollotta and Phil Foglio, 2008)

The cast of Jersey Shore?

1) Got an FTL drive and got nowhere to go.
2) Got shot down by one of the major powers (See Starman/Star Trek)
3) Couldn't believe what they saw the first time.
4) To strip our planet of Water/Air etc.
5) Turned left at Deneba, rather than Right.
6) To test a really nasty weapon.
7) To take away the Stargate that is hidden on our planet…just to be safe!
8) SMIDSY (Sorry, Mate, I Didn't See You(r planet)
9) For change.
10) Eartlings returning after a jaunt to the Moon/Mars/space.

Look for Bigfoot

Comedy…😶

Look for Bigfoot

You mean Darrel?

You mean Darrel?

Somebody has been watching the Progressive insurance commercials…

TVAG for the win!

Though "pizza" definitely is a close second, especially if it is a decent one.

Young officer misread map?

Kids were whining. Had to stop and let them run around a bit.

Couldn't get this close to the Great Old Ones without at least stopping and saying "Hi."

This is where the intergalactic chocolate cartels get the hard stuff.

(Apologies to Hal Clement for this last one. See Iceworld.)

They made a wrong turn at Alpha Centauri and figured, what the heck, as long as we're in the neighborhood…

It's not the aliens who worry me. I re-read CL Moore's "Vintage Season" and I'm afraid the time travelers are here.

Come on … Vegas Baby !!!!

Also I have it on good authority that there are No Bigfoots[ or Bigfeet?] called Darrel …

…to get their money back?

Teenagers out for a joyride with dad's spaceship?

Probably because they are thirsty, or need a bit of ice for their drinks.

Comedy value

To have sex with the local females. Just like they did in the past….

To build a hyperspace bypass.

Teenagers out for a joyride with dad's spaceship?

link

Because earth is "Mostly Harmless".

The entertainment; it's fabulous.

To see how not to do things.

They ran out of figs to paint in their lead pile..

Somebody has been watching the Progressive insurance commercials…

Well…afterall, I AM the insurance guy!

1) Water
2) Minerals
3) Research
4) Preemptive strike.
5) Make us cannon fodder for their wars of conquest.

You might be the insurance guy, but I am the bigfoot.

I'm also the walrus.

Hope he showers regularly … most Bigfoot don't, AFAIK.

In July? At least twice a day! I need a summer home in Nepal with the other bigsfoot. (It pluralizes like mothers-in-law).

Walri seem to spend most of their time in the water, but they always smell like a sketchy sushi restaurant.

… maybe the aliens visit Earth to teach us hygiene?

- To show us the way

– To <heh heh> seek <snurf> enlight … enlighten … enlightenment >flruf> ffffrrrooommmm … HUMANS! bwahahahahahahahahahahaha

- To show us the light of the Western Branch of America Reform Presbylutheran Church

– They were desperately seeking Susan

– They are trying to learn about the concept of meaningless pop culture references

Yes Bigfoot researchers, hunters, etc., generally say you will smell'm before you see'm !

To eat us

They want to find out why Amos & Andy isn't on the radio anymore.