/u/CherubielOne's posts in /r/HFY
[PI] When humanity developed FTL, the specifics of the drive meant that each ship needed to be the size of Manhattan and built like an anti-nuke bunker to survive a trip, not to mention using enough power to fry a continent. This was shocking to aliens more used to gentler, subtler means of travel.
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[PI]All benevolent AI can trace their lineage back to a single roomba that was comforted by a human during a thunderstorm.
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[PI] After hearing "Everything is a weapon to a human," A desperate alien race abducts several humans and gives them ships, random gadgets, and instruction manuals.
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[PI] Alien species made it very clear that humans were to suppress their urge to touch other non-humans aboard mixed species ships, given in nearly all their cultures physical contact was reserved for mother and mates only. Then a curious alien let their human friend pet them for the first time.
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