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- Megan: Gears? No, we've got those.  How about clean energy?
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: Megan: Gears? No, we've got those.  How about clean energy?
- Cueball: Well, we kind of have that.
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: Cueball: Well, we kind of have that.
- Megan: Okay, what about the flight tech of your space ship?  How long did it take you to get here anyway?  Do you have FTL?
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: Megan: Okay, what about the flight tech of your space ship?  How long did it take you to get here anyway?  Do you have FTL?
- Aliens: Well, our multi-generational mother-ship is in orbit of your moon.  We are basing our offers on what our astronomers observed just before the ship left our home planet.
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: Alien: Well, our multi-generational mother-ship is in orbit of your moon.  We are basing our offers on what our astronomers observed just before the ship left our home planet.
- Cueball: Wow!  Can we get your telescope technology?  To see our ancestors from over 3000 years ago and come over here based on what you saw?
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: Cueball: Wow!  Can we get your telescope technology?  To see our ancestors from over 3000 years ago and come over here based on what you saw?
- Megan:  Where are you guys from anyway?  Please don't say Bernard's Star.
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: Megan:  Where are you guys from anyway?  Please don't say Bernard's Star.
 
[[User:Nutster|Nutster]] ([[User talk:Nutster|talk]]) 15:12, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
 
[[User:Nutster|Nutster]] ([[User talk:Nutster|talk]]) 15:12, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

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Good point, for those believing aliens help build the pyramids, if those aliens had already encountered say the MGM pyramid in Las Vegas, would they have helped people build a different kind of monument? Or it's1 stone pyramids regardless of the level of development? 172.70.34.164 01:08, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

I'm surprised we don't have a Category:Aliens. 172.69.35.143 01:55, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
Maybe we should? I found 37 pages when searching for Aliens... But who should put in the link on the relevant of those? --Kynde (talk) 09:40, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

But.. but.. everyone[citation required] knows that the pyramid shape is ideal for landing alien Mother Ships on top of! 141.101.98.244 07:04, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

Thank you! Someone who knows what's up. Bischoff (talk) 07:29, 17 June 2021 (UTC)


Could the "gears" in the title text be a reference to the Antikythera mechanism or something similar? 162.158.89.187 09:32, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

I just think that Randall thinks gear is a pretty neat invention, that Aliens could have taught us. But these came too late --Kynde (talk) 10:00, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

I think the lines emitting from the UFO in the second panel are not tractor beams but something like holographic projection. The pyramid and the stone cube are shown at different scales which indicates that these are not the real thing but images. Panel two depicts a "sneak preview" for the humans.

I think the pyramid is a picture (hologram) and the stone seems real and is held up by the tractor beam. I have amended the explanation and transcript with this. --Kynde (talk) 09:59, 17 June 2021 (UTC)


I'm pretty sure the ancient Egyptians had a secret technology called "scaffold" to help raise the uppermost blocks where a sufficient ramp becomes impractical/impossible... but I'm not about to do the research to prove it to anyone, at 6am. I could be wrong, but I think it's just the "controversial" but obvious answer? ProphetZarquon (talk) 12:00, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

I'm very surprised by the lack of imagination among these aliens. The most advanced tech they can think to offer us is gears? How about a printing press, or electricity, or the combustion engine? Something else is going on here that no one yet has mentioned. Is Randall telling us that the aliens are restrained from giving us too much because of the Prime Directive or something? --172.70.114.38 12:21, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

Nah, I think they just go up the figurative "tech tree". Maybe the things your are mentioning are the next offers after gears? Elektrizikekswerk (talk) 13:13, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

Or how about leaving us one of your spaceships? WaxWamp (talk) 13:39, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

Proposed next panel(s):

Megan: Gears? No, we've got those. How about clean energy?
Cueball: Well, we kind of have that.
Megan: Okay, what about the flight tech of your space ship? How long did it take you to get here anyway? Do you have FTL?
Alien: Well, our multi-generational mother-ship is in orbit of your moon. We are basing our offers on what our astronomers observed just before the ship left our home planet.
Cueball: Wow! Can we get your telescope technology? To see our ancestors from over 3000 years ago and come over here based on what you saw?
Megan: Where are you guys from anyway? Please don't say Bernard's Star.

Nutster (talk) 15:12, 17 June 2021 (UTC)