Ryland Grace has got to have one of the funniest scientific careers of all time:
Research
Dissertation (piss off your entire field)
Teach middle-schoolers
Be the first person to be in contact with alien life (non-sentient)
Have your dissertation (also what killed your career) be proven wrong
Kill and also breed alien life
Become expert in said life
Become first person to be in contact with alien life (sentient)
Successfully communicate and solve the universe’s biggest problem with sentient alien life
Live the rest of life on alien planet as the savior of the universe














