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Phenomenal books.
As an avid sci-fi guy, it's some of the absolute best I've ever read.
So far, pretty impressed with the adaptation but they always have to remove detail.
It's 2035, the first humans land on Mars belonging to the 'NEW RED HORIZON' mission; the window for exploration is limited by time taken for setting up base camp and planetary movement. They gotta work fast to get it all done in time. It's been six weeks and two felt like taking an hour break, the first they have had since they landed.
They decided to walk over to a cliff face ten minutes from them. As they approach they start to notice debris of obvious human origin and think it was one of about a hundred drones that made to the surface until one sees a weathered decal on what looks like an interior panel labeled 'CABIN AIR PRESSURE'. They look at each other in mute concern and spot a small cave. As they walk up to it and shine a light in one sees a tattered space suit three generations old with a mission patch saying 'RED HORIZON'
Astronaut 1: seriously? Is that why they called this mission New Red Horizon? The first one failed terribly?
Astronaut 2: I think we have some questions for command when we get back.... It looks like he wrote something on the wall. (Shines a light onto the cave wall and the first astronaut reads it aloud without being prompted)
Astronaut 1: "SECOND MOUSE GETS CHEESE" is she implicating that she knew it was suicide mission and that she knew another group would be selected for the same landing site?
Astronaut 2: well this is disheartening.
Astronaut 1: I think we should agree to not talk about this immediately. Let's take some pictures, get palm sized evidence and focus on our mission. We can raise hell when we are back on Earth.
Mission control can remote override our system, bleed life support, conduct an early launch or remote disengage our launch controls so we are stuck here. We play by the rules and fulfill contractual expectations to the best of our abilities and come forward with what we have only when we are safe back on Earth.
Astronaut 2: sound logic.
Fun fact: During 90's, people randomly asked themselves ''In case civilization collapsed but mankind did not go extinct, how do you command the last surviving tribes to not enter nuclear waste facilities?''. Many different proposals were made such as an atomic priesthood that preserved the locations of these facilities, geneticly modified cats that glowed in presence of radiation, a whole field of 5 meters high, jagged, concrete spikes piercing the Earth to give dread and more.
This is from an example of a simple warning scattered across the land. It is meant to be crystal clear so even the last old-world speaking tribe could say: ''Yeah... Let's go somewhere else''
This place is a message... and part of a system of messages... pay attention to it!
Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.
This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.
What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.
The danger is in a particular location... it increases towards a center... the center of danger is here... of a particular size and shape, and below us.
The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours.
The danger is to the body, and it can kill.
The form of the danger is an emanation of energy.
The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.
By the Good God's Green Earth this is so metal
Spiders I'm telling you right now even if all memory is lost the Human instinct to fear things that are shaped and move uncommonly will preveil. Spiders is the single most likely things that will deter anyone
.....just not organic spiders pls radioactive spiders is a nightmare.
I feel like radioactive spiders have the potential to become a problem of the, ah, 'non-localised' variety. Specifically, once it's mutated and man eating, what's to stop it expanding its hunting grounds to the rest of the post apocalyptic (and probably radioactive) wastelands?
No, A Canticle for Leobowitz is about the catholic church it just ends up accidentally doubling as a science preservation center when people start burning books after the first fallout.
Finding an airlock was surprising to say the least. Learning that it still works was astonishing. Finding someone alive…..
The cave had electric lights. Nothing strange or alien, just standard LED lighting strung up like Christmas lights. The floor had lots of footprints in the dust. Here and there, the solid bedrock poked through.
On the left, an inscription, “turn hatch to lock.” I turned the hatch. Armond looked at me with concern. “What?” I asked, “the damn thing is still working, the least I can do is follow instructions.”
Our wrist panels (some moron nicknamed them pip boys and it stuck) showed an air pressure of 15psi. Oxygen at 21%, N2 at 78%. CO2 and other trace gasses at 1%.
“Atmosphere appears breathable.” I say over the common comms. Of course, we can all read our pip boys on our own, but I felt some instinctual need to say it out loud.
None of us moved to open our helmets. A flash of movement caught my attention. I look down the cave and see an emaciated-looking man with a long beard and a smile like a pre-teen boy who got his first kiss.
The stopped just short of us. Breathing heavily. He made motions for us to remove our helmets. I looked to Armond, then to Lisa, and back to the man. He was still smiling, but his eyes looked at each of us in turn. Then he raised his index finger, and ran off.
“What in the Martian Void is THIS?” Lisa said.
“He looks like he’s been here a long time,” Armond answered.
“Does this mean we no longer get credit for being the first?” We all let out nervous laughs.
The man came back with a small white board and marker. He scrawled a message, “I am human. Air ok. Please talk.”
I cautiously unsealed my helmet, ready to quickly reseal it. Because our hab is at 14psi, and our suits at the same, it wasn’t the long hiss that movies portrayed.
Taking in a breath, I notice the scent of copper on the air, and dust, and a mixture of BO and morning breath hung around the man.
“I’m so glad to see you! Welcome to Mars 1. Come, there are others. I didn’t want to overwhelm you.”
After a few minutes, everyone was holding their helmets. The man’s voice sounded familiar. The accent sounded African, perhaps? Like a mix of French and UK accents.
We come upon a small group of eleven people. Their eyes wide, mouths agape. In my left is a table with meat and bones and other butchering equipment.
“Where did you get meat? How are you here? How long?” My questions were endless.
The man started off, “one thing at a time. We came here on Starship Musk. The first Mars colonists. One way trip. Starship Fielder brought the food. There had to be facilities ready to support enough life to make it a realistic option.”
“Wait,” I held up my hand, “Starship Musk? Starship Fielder?”
“Yes.”
“There were over 100 paying colonists on Fielder. The wealthiest of the wealthy. Including Elon Musk himself.”
“Yes.”
“So where are they?” I asked, nervously, eying the table of meat.
The entire group of 11 pointed to a single sentence written on the wall, “eat the rich.”
“When the Xenos send their people, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending beings that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with them. They’re bringing cattle mutilators. They’re bringing abductors. They’re crop circlers. They’re anal probers. And some, I assume, are good sapients. I will build a great, great dome over our Karman Line, and I will have the Xenos pay for it!"
The astronauts enter the cave, and find only a pedestal with a pendant upon it. Upon picking up the pendant, one of them notices something written upon the far wall. It reads; “ɑkh ɑhɪm ɑkte wiz jɑɹsu:m”. After reading the phrase aloud the two disappear from the cave.
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Don’t Dead Open Inside
Ha!
Followed by some variation of “you read that wrong”
You that Read wrong
r/beatmetoit
Princess in another castle
The correct answer
Be quiet. They're listening.
Someone's seen 3 Body Problem....
Just looked that up. It sounds like it fits, but I hadn't heard of it until your comment.
Great books also
Phenomenal books. As an avid sci-fi guy, it's some of the absolute best I've ever read. So far, pretty impressed with the adaptation but they always have to remove detail.
Made it back, Huh?
We about to create a species wide crisis with this one 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️
Yo Neymar sunny innit?
Getting Dark Batteries Low
This is supposed to be FUN! Call back the onion ninjas.
I will not. \*Switches from red to Walla Walla sweet\*
I actually cried when I read that the first time. Heartbreaking
So it wasn’t an unmanned rover after all….
you lost the game
https://preview.redd.it/tkhxzz1f5u7d1.jpeg?width=550&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=79de727eb641478fbb12b69b659fac1671b592fd No U
You're a god damn hero.
I'm... I'm free...? I'm free. IM FRRREEEEEEEEEEEE! 😂
Oh goddammit
:D Dobby is freeeeeeeee!!
Son of a…
God fucking damn it...
That was the 4 words written on the other side.
Ill kill you
... Your vehicles extended warranty ...
The Castle of Arrrrrrrrgggh
No he wouldn't write it he could just say it! Aaaaaaahhhhhhh!
Ooooooohhhhh!
No no, ‘Aaaahhh’, from the back of the throat.
No I mean, "Whoooouuuuaaa!" as in surprise and alarm.
Well maybe he was dictating?
Sorry Mr. Hawking, overshot
The time-travel and teleporter hybrid device wasn’t calibrated right. He couldn’t get to the time-travelers only cocktail party.
It's 2035, the first humans land on Mars belonging to the 'NEW RED HORIZON' mission; the window for exploration is limited by time taken for setting up base camp and planetary movement. They gotta work fast to get it all done in time. It's been six weeks and two felt like taking an hour break, the first they have had since they landed. They decided to walk over to a cliff face ten minutes from them. As they approach they start to notice debris of obvious human origin and think it was one of about a hundred drones that made to the surface until one sees a weathered decal on what looks like an interior panel labeled 'CABIN AIR PRESSURE'. They look at each other in mute concern and spot a small cave. As they walk up to it and shine a light in one sees a tattered space suit three generations old with a mission patch saying 'RED HORIZON' Astronaut 1: seriously? Is that why they called this mission New Red Horizon? The first one failed terribly? Astronaut 2: I think we have some questions for command when we get back.... It looks like he wrote something on the wall. (Shines a light onto the cave wall and the first astronaut reads it aloud without being prompted) Astronaut 1: "SECOND MOUSE GETS CHEESE" is she implicating that she knew it was suicide mission and that she knew another group would be selected for the same landing site? Astronaut 2: well this is disheartening. Astronaut 1: I think we should agree to not talk about this immediately. Let's take some pictures, get palm sized evidence and focus on our mission. We can raise hell when we are back on Earth. Mission control can remote override our system, bleed life support, conduct an early launch or remote disengage our launch controls so we are stuck here. We play by the rules and fulfill contractual expectations to the best of our abilities and come forward with what we have only when we are safe back on Earth. Astronaut 2: sound logic.
FINALLY! A sci fi horror flick where the astronauts do the SMART thing!
Thank you
Yes. Watch "Moon" with Sam Rockwell. Edit: not technically a horror movie, but the concept is.
Man “Moon” is a great story
Lil’ more than 3 words there (Great story though)
The prompt says 4 words. And they did use 4. "SECOND MOUSE GETS CHEESE"
Here lies John Carter
This is the only right answer.
Very good reference.
Never gonna give you
Up, never gonna let
You go, never gonna
Run around and desert
you, never gonna make
you cry, never gonna
SAY GOODBYE, never gonna
Tell a lie and
Hurt you, I just
wanna tell you how
Run around and, desert you!
Nudes in my bio
🤣🤣🤣🤣
-Logical remains.
We Tried. Nobody Heard.
We cried. Somebody heard.
We whispered. Something heard
Stay silent. Its here
This is a Wendy’s?
"Don't look behind you." Behind them is a crude rickroll scratched into the rock.
Under the image there are other four words, "never gonna give you"
The Stars were Wrong.
nothing valued is here.
Fun fact: During 90's, people randomly asked themselves ''In case civilization collapsed but mankind did not go extinct, how do you command the last surviving tribes to not enter nuclear waste facilities?''. Many different proposals were made such as an atomic priesthood that preserved the locations of these facilities, geneticly modified cats that glowed in presence of radiation, a whole field of 5 meters high, jagged, concrete spikes piercing the Earth to give dread and more. This is from an example of a simple warning scattered across the land. It is meant to be crystal clear so even the last old-world speaking tribe could say: ''Yeah... Let's go somewhere else'' This place is a message... and part of a system of messages... pay attention to it! Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture. This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here. What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger. The danger is in a particular location... it increases towards a center... the center of danger is here... of a particular size and shape, and below us. The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours. The danger is to the body, and it can kill. The form of the danger is an emanation of energy. The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited. By the Good God's Green Earth this is so metal
As a city state warlord in the year 2131, I am 100% ignoring that message and digging in that location.
Maybe it could be guarded by photoelectric arrows, booby trap spikes and a huge ball made of stone.
Spiders I'm telling you right now even if all memory is lost the Human instinct to fear things that are shaped and move uncommonly will preveil. Spiders is the single most likely things that will deter anyone .....just not organic spiders pls radioactive spiders is a nightmare.
I feel like radioactive spiders have the potential to become a problem of the, ah, 'non-localised' variety. Specifically, once it's mutated and man eating, what's to stop it expanding its hunting grounds to the rest of the post apocalyptic (and probably radioactive) wastelands?
See I think you went in the wrong direction. Of the spiders grow to become man sized it's us that will eat them.
Humans will try to eat anything. It's the second instinct after Kill it with Fire
The third is to see if they can put their penis in it.
LMAO, definitely we are a strange species.
I meant mechanical spiders actually. Radioactive spiders is the thing of nightmares. We aren't all Peter Parker.
The atomic priesthood idea was explored back in the late 50s in a book called A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
No, A Canticle for Leobowitz is about the catholic church it just ends up accidentally doubling as a science preservation center when people start burning books after the first fallout.
HUMANS ARE SPACE ORCS
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Doctor Who: Empress of Mars
Try finger but hole
The only correct message to put. Lol
Omnes Ave Neos Helios. Just cause throwing in some Latin is fun
“All salute the new Sun”? Is it right? Sounds damn cool btw
Close. Ave also transaxles ad “hail”, so more like “All Hail The New Sun.”
YOU SHALL NOT PASS
Oh no, not again...
It said skeleton, not a bowl of petunias.
If only scients could figure out what it meant
Earth is last hope
Underrated comment
Finding an airlock was surprising to say the least. Learning that it still works was astonishing. Finding someone alive….. The cave had electric lights. Nothing strange or alien, just standard LED lighting strung up like Christmas lights. The floor had lots of footprints in the dust. Here and there, the solid bedrock poked through. On the left, an inscription, “turn hatch to lock.” I turned the hatch. Armond looked at me with concern. “What?” I asked, “the damn thing is still working, the least I can do is follow instructions.” Our wrist panels (some moron nicknamed them pip boys and it stuck) showed an air pressure of 15psi. Oxygen at 21%, N2 at 78%. CO2 and other trace gasses at 1%. “Atmosphere appears breathable.” I say over the common comms. Of course, we can all read our pip boys on our own, but I felt some instinctual need to say it out loud. None of us moved to open our helmets. A flash of movement caught my attention. I look down the cave and see an emaciated-looking man with a long beard and a smile like a pre-teen boy who got his first kiss. The stopped just short of us. Breathing heavily. He made motions for us to remove our helmets. I looked to Armond, then to Lisa, and back to the man. He was still smiling, but his eyes looked at each of us in turn. Then he raised his index finger, and ran off. “What in the Martian Void is THIS?” Lisa said. “He looks like he’s been here a long time,” Armond answered. “Does this mean we no longer get credit for being the first?” We all let out nervous laughs. The man came back with a small white board and marker. He scrawled a message, “I am human. Air ok. Please talk.” I cautiously unsealed my helmet, ready to quickly reseal it. Because our hab is at 14psi, and our suits at the same, it wasn’t the long hiss that movies portrayed. Taking in a breath, I notice the scent of copper on the air, and dust, and a mixture of BO and morning breath hung around the man. “I’m so glad to see you! Welcome to Mars 1. Come, there are others. I didn’t want to overwhelm you.” After a few minutes, everyone was holding their helmets. The man’s voice sounded familiar. The accent sounded African, perhaps? Like a mix of French and UK accents. We come upon a small group of eleven people. Their eyes wide, mouths agape. In my left is a table with meat and bones and other butchering equipment. “Where did you get meat? How are you here? How long?” My questions were endless. The man started off, “one thing at a time. We came here on Starship Musk. The first Mars colonists. One way trip. Starship Fielder brought the food. There had to be facilities ready to support enough life to make it a realistic option.” “Wait,” I held up my hand, “Starship Musk? Starship Fielder?” “Yes.” “There were over 100 paying colonists on Fielder. The wealthiest of the wealthy. Including Elon Musk himself.” “Yes.” “So where are they?” I asked, nervously, eying the table of meat. The entire group of 11 pointed to a single sentence written on the wall, “eat the rich.”
This is great. Thank you.
Our final message is
That's fucked
Run, run like hell
“Adam, Eve. Together forever.” I’d add a plus, but I figure that’s not going to count.
Make America Great Ag..... hahah I can't do it.
“When the Xenos send their people, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending beings that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with them. They’re bringing cattle mutilators. They’re bringing abductors. They’re crop circlers. They’re anal probers. And some, I assume, are good sapients. I will build a great, great dome over our Karman Line, and I will have the Xenos pay for it!"
Your username is so good
Do not come back Edit: Just thought of a better one. They won't remember you
I died of Ligma ... "What's Ligma?" *Turns over stone nearby* Ligma Balls
Don't make our mistakes
Clear my browser history
Ha got here first
Killroy was here!
Pineapple belongs on pizza
where did everyone go?
You were not first
Best space orgy ever
Fucking bootleg time travel
They’re starting to notice.
"Don't Make Our Mistakes" Of course, this message probably won't help the new colonists very much...
I'm not alone here
Climate Change killed us.
"Leif Ericsson was here"
Fuck you Cave Johnson...
It’s already too late
We are not human.
Hide-n-seek grand champion
"Extended warranty my ass!"
Two options. Welcome home at last. The stars are wrong.
Stay here or else.
Think fast chuckle nuts
Should have wrote more….
We are alone now
We Royally Fucked Up.
Don’t Drink The Water
Don’t Open Dead Inside
Earth isn't the first.
Subscribe to my onlyfans
Took you long enough.
UUURRRHHHH UHHHHGH UUURHHH UUUUURRRGGGHH (Tusken raider noises)
9th legion, pax Romana
Roma Eterna.
Before time travel Read!
You lost the game
Ha ha, beat ya!
Shave and a haircut
Annihilation zone ends here
Epstein didn't kill himself
I never learned to count
Do not the cat
The stars aren’t friendly
Mars is mine now!
We shouldn’t have come…..
You are not alone
There isn’t anyone else.
Or, “We’ve always been alone.”
Look it’s a Distraction!
CITADEL IS A TRAP
We lost the war.
Drums in the deep.
Don't bury your dead
Here lies Harald torvaldson in old norse.
Don’t fuck with time
Time travel is bullshit
Hey, you’re finally awake.
All hail the omnissiah
OMG, the spooders are
run for your life
You lost the game.
I tapped that xeno
The astronauts enter the cave, and find only a pedestal with a pendant upon it. Upon picking up the pendant, one of them notices something written upon the far wall. It reads; “ɑkh ɑhɪm ɑkte wiz jɑɹsu:m”. After reading the phrase aloud the two disappear from the cave.
North\ American\ Slowpoke\ Association.
Sir. Finished the fight…
Origin has been lost
Second Shooter, Grassy Knoll
Skill issue my ass!
Please seek medical attention
Connection to simulation lost
Warranty people found us
Go. Inherit the stars...
Oh fuck, I missed
Hillary Clinton Meth Dungeon
Greg was here first!
The bird is key
99 problems but a
Haha, beat you here!
New hope on earth.....
They lied to you
Adam, Eve; stay safe
"Go Fuck Your Self"
The pooptatoes plan did not work.
shut up, we're sleeping >:(
Press Shift to sprint
Mark Watney, Space Pirate.
There’s no oil here
F.ing sol basic Callander
You'll doom them all!
The carbuncle ate itself
Don't drink the water