He Thought Earth Was Primitive, Until Humans Did This In Front of Him |HFY | Sci Fi Short Story | 

I always thought that was Blish, but nope. Blish called them Dirac Communicators.

I think I've seen Orson Scott Card use that also, but I think Le Guin was before him? (I know that I certainly knew of Earthsea before I knew of Ender Wiggin, lol)

Exactly. From Roconnon's World, 1966. A shortening of "answerable".

Yeah - I caught that too. Ansibles keep popping up in various Sci-Fi as the fall-back FTL communications "trope", I guess. Isn't that interesting.

Very good!

Oh! Good callback reference to the game-masters of Triskelion!! 3000 Quatloos indeed!!

I’ll up that by 20 gold latinum bars.

And Class 12 death world at the same time.

much rather have a human reader

That was awful. From the first word.

I assumed they didn't need insulation or armour, they appear to have a chitinous exoskeleton, so clothes would be like a fur coat on a Dalek.

@@rbdogwood well that would dismiss millions of years of culture that it could have had, telling me in their whole history no one put on a silly hat and said this made me better? or like oh here comes the boss, he has those fancy (___) on to make sure we know. even if they were just like that and didn't need clothing, armor or jewelry, marks of rank or office. mean they would have to be rather bleak in culture to just be rocken it chitinous exoskeleton out but then i guess on the other hand if they were bug like and hive minded maybe only the queen would need anything fancy...lol still tho'.

​@@RioEin Fair, but I'd ask, if you didn't need them would you wear them? Most of our clothing is deigned to protect or modify our general purpose bodies. Insulation is needed but decoration is additional. A top hat or high heels start as insulation but have been modified to the point of uselessness and counter-intuitive on a space-craft. I would expect an armoured exoskeleton to be painted or lightly carved. Perhaps the alien in the picture has had his shoulder guards and thigh plates decorated or tattooed. His hair, if that's what it is would probably need controlling in space, but I'd assume it would be 'fashioned' i some way. Of course the image is a human creation, I wonder if it would work in space, it looks a little awkward for getting into a space suit quickly, but then they might be unaffected by vacuum. Aliens able to use tools would probably need pockets, and I suspect hands or the equivalent. I can imagine space going dolphins, but I can't see them getting into space by themselves. Star wars / Star trek with their human shaped aliens might be closer to the truth than we expect, although I guess an octopoid might evolve in very low gravity or a liquid environment. I look forward to meeting an intelligent tool using alien, and wonder what actual shapes might work.

Well he has HAIR on his bug eyed head.

@@RioEin For all we know, it has an elegantly painted exoskeleton in frequencies we can't see because their compound eyes let them see all kinds of things in UV.

More like Babylon 5 and the last episode of its 4th season, where humans became the new Vorlons. (Non corporeal being of light energy, wearing 'encounter suits') At least they make more sense than Vorlons... (Thought of Kosh as soon as the human said 'the younger races' lol. )

Same with live - either l(eh)ve or l(eye)ve

Silly humans, still only level one technology.

@@thatotherguy7596 Oh! Ya mean we rank that high!!!???

Many AI language models would have gotten the variations of "read" or "live" from the context. They would also have done a lot better with the speech in general. This channel simply didn’t do their research well and chose, well, junk. The writing left a lot to be desired, too.

No. What you are saying is stupid. And lame. Nobody ever has pronounced R.E.D. as R.E.E.D. You are under the influence of drugs. Cease your cringe.

Orson Scott Card borrowed the term from Ursula K. LeGuin

yea i noticed allot around the time i started my channel the stories are like that because they are HFY which is humanity F Yea stories so like humans are the best or they always come out on top type stories.

All of my stories are original and I just couldn't afford a good program yet.

@@ALLSciFi88 Don't you have a voice? I don't care how bad you are at reading, you can't be worse than that thing.

Just read them yourself

@@rconley95 maybe their voice is even worse irl?

No garbage is absolute. There is always room for things to be worse.