• @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    3510 days ago

    It would be fun if actual intelligent alien lifeforms decide to land their flying saucers on earth on April 1st

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        139 days ago

        That would likely depend on their motives. If they are wanting to infiltrate and don’t have a good cloaking tech, then entering on a day when any reports would likely be dismissed would be a spectacularly intelligent decision.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    3510 days ago

    Tell them we’re sorry about the general state of everything and ask them what the memes are like in their culture.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    229 days ago

    Researcher: “So how are you, uhh… likin that rock?”

    Lichen: “…”

    We are once again alone in the universe

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    1010 days ago

    I have trouble to distinguish whether its some funny phrasing of an actual thing that was done or just a late April fools joke, can someone help me out?

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      69 days ago

      Given the way that science headlines are composed, I’m sure this is, if not an outright lie, then a gross exaggeration, and if neither of those, a very clever interpretation of something that is otherwise probably much more mundane than it appears.