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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by LillyPip@lemmy.ca to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

That’s not what I mean….

I was just listening to a biologist podcast about tardigrades and learnt we've been subjecting them to all the extremes to see what they can tolerate: super-fast speeds, radiation, you name it we've done it to them...

Think if super-advanced aliens did this to us. Oh. Oh god. 'How much velocity to squish us?' 'How much sound to shake us apart?'

Suddenly anal probing doesn't seem so bad.

e: ‘we’ll stick an appropriately-sized thing into an orifice that seems made for that’ sounds downright friendly by comparison.

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[-] elvith@feddit.org 26 points 1 week ago
[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 10 points 1 week ago
[-] elvith@feddit.org 7 points 1 week ago

I was initially searching for even another one, but couldn’t find it - where aliens invade earth and request a number of people to conduct experiments on. Only to have them delivered in a short amount of time. The humans reveal that they just posted the alien’s request to several kink forums on the internet and there were many people willing to participate.

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