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Alien Car'zthops: We need to make ship more durable, maybe indestructible. This human engineer should be able to guide us to it one day.

Human Amanda: Well, the only truly indestructible thing I can think of is a water bear (jokingly)

Alien Sylactha: What isss thissss... Water bear?

Human Amanda: Well, the scientific name is Tartigrade, but we call em' that.

Both aliens: Oohhhh (and nod in agreement

Human Amanda: ...You guys know what those are?

Those are a few examples, but think of it on a bigger scale. The whole concept of all religion is "how the hell did this world and us as a species come to be?"

My example today is a weirder one, but one personal to me. Whenever I go to Costco, I like to go inside the sheds and sit there in the dark to scare people. Every time that I've done this, multiple people open the door and get surprised. They knew what they were going to see inside of that shed, yet they still opened it anyway just to be sure, and reacted with genuine surprise or even fear when it wasn't what they expected.

I visited Auschwitz Berkenau yesterday, both the labor and death camp. What I found interesting while walking around Berkenau was that gorgeous flowers and long grass had grown all around the cabins, and even around a few of the collapsed chimneys. It was obvious that they were going to grow there, but it made me kinda wonder how outer species would see beauty creeping into a place with such disgusting and violent history.

Of course, they would have their own versions of it. Maybe not every species had such a genocide against their groups, but they can understand it. They have gone through war as well, and they have seen how in those historical spots, somehow beauty creeps in after death and violence like the one at the camps.

Maybe they even had something similar happen to their species? I don't know, but I think it's one thing that all species can come to a quiet understanding of even if they haven't experienced it.

Here's what I mean below. Also, most of these are reconstructions so rarely are they the exact buildings, but they are accurate.

Consider: Metal music

I really love the idea of an alien hearing different music genres and when they get to that one, they are either freaked the hell out on how humans can make those noises from their vastly different throats, or maybe there is another alien species that sound exactly like that constantly and are interested in how humans can imitate them almost too well. The fact that certain humans make a whole career out of this and can just pull it out of their ass anytime is even freakier to them. I'll try to write this out, but this is also my first post here so it'll be inaccurate lmao

Alien 1: Hey, do you hear that?

Alien 2: Yeah. That sounds like Crag'zthor. Why?

Alien 1: ...He left the ship last week.

Alien 2: Huh. You wanna go investigate?

Alien 1: ..You know what? Sure.