If the human race suddenly vacated earth and aliens showed up two days later, what's the weirdest thing they would find?
Some things I can think of, although by no means do I think I have come close to the really weird:
Plastic grass on a patio next to real grass?
Mickey Mouse shaped mugs?
Viagra pills?
Stonehenge?
An iPad?
French Baguette?
What do you think would be totally weird to an uninitiated alien?
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Opinion.
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We have bombed our own planet. We destroyed whole sections of the Pacific
Nuclear weapons were dropped on cities, hundreds of thousands of people were killed.
Old weapons leak and are stored unsafely
We built nuclear power stations on major fault lines
We don't know what to do with the waste
We polluted our own nest
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Oh, sorry... you said no understanding of human languages... so that discounts those. :)
I definitely agree with some of the things others have said; although a few of them assume that aliens have no physiology or concepts in their lives that are anywhere near ours. If they have a similar humanoid look, they could probably figure out underwear. (After a while.) So I guess I'll answer with the assumption that they have lives, cultures, and thought processes quite different to ours.
I will now present my list of things that I think might appear weird or confusing; in many cases followed by my imagined response from the aliens.
- Scented candles. They look good, they smell fantastic.... BUT FOR CRYING OUT LOUD, CAN SOMEONE CONFIRM WHETHER OR NOT THESE ARE SOMETHING TO EAT!
-Women's skin creams, body products, etc. Find bottle, pump, out comes goo. Find bottle, squeeze, out comes goo. Find jar, open.... Goo. What is this goo and why are so many goo varieties required?
Furthermore, why, in one room in each household, is there a large bed for some sort of large, square creature - and why is there generally a few of these goos in or on the receptacle on one side of this bed, but the receptacle on the other side generally lacks these goos?
- The cutlery drawer. .... Why bother having such great numbers of odd, weak little blunt weapons? Why not have a large, spiked mace, plus a sharp, heavy sword and blaster-gun or two, and be done with it?
- A garden leaf-blower. On weapons again..... just what kind of enemy can this weapon defeat?
- Diet food or diet drinks. Foul-tasting concoctions with little energy value!
-Exercise equipment. (Gets off exercise bike) This transport device is defective.
- Lawn aerator sandals.
- Those plastic fruits that people sometimes have in a bowl on the table.
- Bagpipes.
- Every CD, video game, or other piece of information storage that they find.... that is, right up until the point where they work out that they go with the stereo equipment/ game consoles/ etc. Up until this point, I'd say they'd conclude that they are our currency or money. Under this system, those who like to keep a lot of blank CD-Rs on hand will appear very wealthy indeed.
If the aliens are interested in sampling some things from our culture, I'd say the first thing they should concentrate on is understanding the difference between the contents of all the similar-looking bottles and jars; and hoping to their alien gods that most of the humans kept all their "receptacles containing stuff to eat" away from their "receptacles containing stuff to kill things, clean things, and remove things".
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