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    Passive-Aggressive Aliens Want to Steal Your Gravel

    An Alien Invasion You Can Write Home About

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    Image of GreyHammer GreyHammer
    09/21/09

    In reply to Passive-Aggressive Aliens Want to Steal Your Gravel
    the new yorker: pretentious BS you PAY US for.
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    Image of lukeoneil47 lukeoneil47
    09/21/09

    @GreyHammer: that sounds like the reaction of someone who doesn't read it.
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    Image of reddingofish reddingofish
    09/21/09

    In reply to Passive-Aggressive Aliens Want to Steal Your Gravel
    How much gravel could be carried on an alien space ship? Would they just beam it back to their gravelless planet? It might sound silly to take our gravel but think of how much our infrastructure depends on gravel. Would they want the gravel that we have already used?
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    Image of Mathmos Mathmos
    09/21/09

    In reply to Passive-Aggressive Aliens Want to Steal Your Gravel
    Gravel is obviously just a feint. What do they really want, apart from Mindy? They like zeitgeisty think pieces...maybe if we offer them the io9 staff they'll leave us in peace.
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    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    09/21/09

    In reply to Passive-Aggressive Aliens Want to Steal Your Gravel
    sometimes I think of The New Yorker as the Ziggy of high-brow publications...
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    Image of Boas_MC Boas_MC
    07/22/09

    In reply to An Alien Invasion You Can Write Home About
    Actually, it looks more like it's the aliens who are doing the tourist sight-seeing thing. And you know, it's always a pain when your giant alien mecha-bot breaks down in the Alps. Thank goodness for friendly red buses! Hell, by the looks of a lot of these pictures, someone needs to go back to spaceship driving school. Don't they teach young podlings how to park anymore?
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    Image of Fusion Fusion
    07/22/09

    In reply to An Alien Invasion You Can Write Home About
    Probably just me, but I don't see about half the pics, even the thumbnails are missing.
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    Lauren Davis promoted this comment Edited by Fusion at 07/22/09 10:11 AM Fusion was starred Fusion was unstarred
    Image of Lauren Davis Lauren Davis
    07/22/09

    @Fusion: Those are actually all the pictures. I don't know why the blank boxes are showing up.
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    07/22/09

    @Lauren Davis: It's fixed now. Your other tag was weird space free. This is why it's good to use more than one tag. :)
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    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    07/22/09

    In reply to An Alien Invasion You Can Write Home About
    Look how nice those people are in "picture 11." They are trying to look like the spacemen and not make them feel self-conscious about their helmets.
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    Image of Majes Majes
    07/22/09

    In reply to An Alien Invasion You Can Write Home About
    What happened to New York?
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    Image of Sabbatai Sabbatai
    07/21/09

    In reply to British Schoolchildren Traumatized by Fake Alien Invasion
    So one day I am in school... high school and I am slightly inebriated (read: very fuxed up) sitting on the sidewalk outside of the cafeteria when a van pulls up.

    The door opens and a giant mouth, a guy with a neck the length of your arm and some other creature I don't recall jump out.

    The mouth eats my backpack and I all my teachers and the administration are pointing at me and laughing.

    Then to make me feel better my friend who is completely sober tells me "Don't worry they are real, I see them too."

    It didn't make me feel better....

    We have this thing called "First Night" here in Annapolis MD that happens every New Year's Eve. People dress up in costume, get drunk and so forth.

    This was all done in secrecy with no advance warning that crazy goblins would be coming to visit us.
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    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    07/21/09

    In reply to British Schoolchildren Traumatized by Fake Alien Invasion
    I remember reading in the news about a guy in the UK who got slightly sloshed. And watched an Independance Day fake broadcast on BBC2. He panicked, grabed his wife and kids and made his way down into the basement. He stayed there for a week until other family members got concerned and called the police. They found the family huddled in a corner of the basement!! What a cock!
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    07/21/09

    In reply to British Schoolchildren Traumatized by Fake Alien Invasion
    Maybe the kids could get back at them if they all stop dead in their tracks at the exact same moment and start speaking in unison.
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    07/21/09

    In reply to British Schoolchildren Traumatized by Fake Alien Invasion
    Didn't the same thing happen during Orson Wells' broadcast of The War of the Worlds, except in America and with over a million adults?
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    Image of MonkeyT MonkeyT
    07/21/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: My grandmother heard that broadcast. She didn't panic. She loaded her shotgun and sat on the porch waiting for them.
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    07/21/09

    @MonkeyT: This world needs more people like your grandmother.
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    Image of LiC LiC
    07/21/09

    @MonkeyT: I need to hear more stories about grandmas, alien invasions, and loaded shotguns.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    07/21/09

    @MonkeyT: My grandparents heard that broadcast too. Including the disclaimer. Plus, grandpa read the original book.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    07/21/09

    In reply to British Schoolchildren Traumatized by Fake Alien Invasion
    Of course next week the school will catch fire. Alarms will go off and the teachers will be yelling, "Everybody queue up and walk out to the yard. there's no need to panic..."

    Only to face roomfuls of little crossed arms and icy stares. "Yeah right. Like we're really gonna fall for this shite twice."
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    07/21/09

    @Grey_Area: "Pull the other one, it's got bells on it. Alien bells, oo-er."
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    Image of Mortimer Gray Mortimer Gray
    07/21/09

    In reply to British Schoolchildren Traumatized by Fake Alien Invasion
    Next simulation: Zombie outbreak! The school refuses to be held liable for any beheaded faculty members.
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    Image of acrobatic rabbit acrobatic rabbit
    07/21/09

    In reply to British Schoolchildren Traumatized by Fake Alien Invasion
    BAH!! hahaha. ah... this is great. Superb, really. Kids are wusses. Scare the snot out of them then cough it up to inspiration. Awesome.
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