Mike Solana

I mean if there's an optimal time to survive an alien invasion, it would be when there's a good chance of them dying off from foreign pathogens, à la guns germs and steel

@TheAnnaGat my single favorite covid tweet was something along the lines of "If aliens invaded Earth, the first thing the government would do would be to lower interest rates"

At moments of greatest risk to the human species, outside-context events (like intervention by non-human intelligence) are much more likely. The likelihood of first contact hasn't been this high since the Cuban Missile Crisis.