As a culture we tell ourselves a lot of stories about aliens arriving. They're not really about that, of course - like most science fiction they are telling a parable about society using the aliens as a metaphor. But, despite this, they do color our expectations, give us a vocabulary of alien encounters that we tend to draw from. Will it be an invasion? An infiltration? Are they coming to invite us to an intergalactic civilization? Save us from ourselves? Gallingly, it turns out the most accurate prediction was Mister Mxyzptlk from the old Superman comics. Goddamn alien pranksters confusing everything... #BubbleDrabbles
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