Observing THAT Planet

Humans Are Weird/Space Orcs & Earth Is A Deathworld is my favorite fiction to read ... and I don't like reading fiction normally. 🔹 I made this blog about writing in general because I kind of sort of am one. Also reblogs of HASO posts/stories, things that remind of the concept, and potentially some HASO OC 🔹 Some tags: #original posting - I made the post; #addition - I added to someone else's post; #my HASO - I actually bothered to write something. Main Blog: @sag-dab-sar Follow from: @sag-dab-sar-follows Header: Antarctica | Icon from a picrew I can't find

[not-an-alien-scientist]

List of my Original Humans Are Weird Posts

Main blog @sag-dab-sar

I tag it haso because that seems to be the short hand name of the genre, but I think my writing tends to focus not on humans being unstoppable action hero's terrifying everyone but people who can suffer through a lot and still live, befuddling the aliens. Plus pack bonding.

What I've written are only small posts 😅

[Last update Aug 17, 2024]

Opportunity Was a Good Boy

Barometric Pressure

Weird Wording

Fur Son

Unsettled

The Friend You Need

And other thoughts on #original posting though sometimes I forget to tag

Thoughts about human/alien communication

[not-an-alien-scientist]

TIL that animal bite forces measured in PSI (pounds per square inch) is basically bad pop science. Because the PSI will depends entirely on WHAT is being bitten. Most scientific data I've seen uses newtons or bite force quotient which is newtons divided by body weight. I research too much for fictional stories....

[crabussy]

really fond of humans just from an appearance standpoint. the long legs. the manes of hair that can come in practically any colour and texture. those crazy high-contrast eyes with the white scleras and colourful irises. the fingers being so much longer than the toes. there's a lot to love. solid 10/10 animal species

[crabussy]

BAFFLINGLY SPOT ON COMPARISON.

[wholesome-animal-images]

[not-an-alien-scientist]

[not-an-alien-scientist]

I was brainstorming and came to conclusion that I wouldn't want covert agencies (like CIA) to run our interstellar frontier program because they often rely on Fuck Around and Find Out.... in the bad way. But then I realized that part of Humans Being Weird™ is we practically run on Fuck Around and Find Out. Its like hardwired into humanity. Its why babies stick everything in their mouth, to learn. Human curiosity often out weighs our caution. Certainly there would be engineers and specialists that are meticulous about safety.... but safety is almost always second in exploration look at literally any "first" expedition, first to cross an ocean, first to reach the north pole, first to reach certain mountain peaks... all batshit decisions where caution & safety was not at the forefront. Space won't be any different. How would alien crew handle our Fuck Around and Find Out approach. We would essentially be the equivalent of a toddler sticking something in an electric socket to them.

[boyakishantriage]

"And speaking- Where did-"

The radio crackled to life.

"HI CAPTAIN, I'M IN A SPACE SHUTTLE AND I'M GONNA PUNCH A SPACE WORM!"

He slammed the microphone as the floating ship move into view.

"HUMAN ELEANOR, GET BACK-"

The visible sound of her ripping the speaker out, as she pushed a lever, the shuttle speeding up as she shoved a helmet onto her head. Waving back at the captain with a stupid grin on her face as she drew that sword she constantly was threatening, and or stabbing someone or thing with.

[authorbettyadams]

Humans are Weird - A Dozen Times Before -Audio Narration - Book 4 - Humans are Weird: I Did the Math

Humans are Weird: I Did the Math by Betty Adams - Indiegogo

How will aliens react to having to deal with all the raw human-ness of us; the chaos, the inconsistency, the...weirdness?

The punishment should fit the crime. You only live once. Work hard, play hard.

Humans have a lot of weird little sayings like that. How will our little green friends deal with them once we expand into space? And how will the deal with the human psychology who thought them up?

Find out in the fourth book of human absurdity:

Humans are Weird: I Did the Math

Available on Indiegogo March 2026!

Click the link to follow now!

Humans are Weird: I Did the Math by Betty Adams - Indiegogo

How will aliens react to having to deal with all the raw human-ness of us; the chaos, the inconsistency, the...weirdness?

[jimvasta]

Humans are aquatic?

Our first attempts to create human proof research enclosures were terrible failures.

Walls or fences with even the slightest imperfections can be scaled by a species evolved from climbers.

Doors with sophisticated locks will last for a little while, but they are tool users and will pick or jimmy locks eventually.

So we went back to the tried and tested moat method. Terrestrial species fear large bodies of water and as long as they cannot wade or jump the distance a moat works well.

Except it doesn't.

At first we thought they were hiding on their island. Humans can be secretive and create hiden nests. Then one of our store room alarms was activated.

By the time we got there the room was stripped.

One of our camera operators called in a panic to report a footage review showing humans in the moat, actually swimming, before the survellience for the entire capture wing went down.

Humans are multi environment. How did they evolve that way? Why do climbers swim? It's as ridiculous a concept as swimmers learning to fly!

Now they are in the main control room and we have locked ourselves on the lower maintence deck.

Please send help as soon as possible.

[not-an-alien-scientist]

*grumbles* I hate when historical event timelines don't match up with my completely fictional story, how dare they

[insomniac-arrest]

movies about apocalypses: it’s every man for himself!! you can’t trust anyone, it’s a wasteland of solo travelers and sad families, we’re alone out here

humans irl: *pack bond with strangers*

*pack bond with large carnivores*

*pack bond with robots in space thousands of miles away*

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Apocalypse preppers who fantasise about all our artificial rules and governments falling away in times of chaos seem to forget that we invented those rules and governments. Over and over. When you put humans near each other, they group up and make a society; that’s why those  governments exist. Do they think we magically stop doing that in dangerous situations? Because… we don’t.

[digitaldiscipline]

hopepunk doesn’t have time for your racist doomsday hard-on, carl.

[beanscreams]

Friendly reminder

That you don't have to keep That Thing™ in your story just because you came up with it a long time ago and now it's hindering your story or doesn't fit anymore. Even if you came up with it with someone. Even if you've shared it with a million people.

Save it for something else. But cut it out of the story that it isnt working for.

It's for the best, trust me.

[mindblowingscience]

Rare fossils reveal 91 new species that survived ancient mass extinction

Almost a hundred new animal species that survived a mass extinction event half a billion years ago have been discovered in a small quarry in

Almost a hundred new animal species that survived a mass extinction event half a billion years ago have been discovered in a small quarry in China, scientists revealed Wednesday. The treasure trove of fossils offers a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in Earth's history. The site where the fossils were found in the southern Chinese province of Hunan was "extraordinary," Han Zeng of the Chinese Academy of Sciences told AFP. "We have collected over 50,000 fossil specimens from a single quarry that is 12 meters high, 30 meters long and eight meters wide," added the lead author of a new study in the journal Nature.

Continue Reading.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

People are so suspicious of my Normal Spaceship and so on the edge about how sinister it must be. :( Even though it's a Normal Spaceship. :( And there's NO REASON for that except for the previous duology I wrote about how fucked up the Normal Spaceship was and the incredibly ominous blurb I wrote for this book about it. :( There's no trust any more. :(

[miraclemaya]

it would be so fucking embarrassing if we meet aliens and they are like wow you guys have the same technology as we did 300 gyroaays (unit of time) ago, that's awesome. and we are like wooo that's so cool and they are like yeah so what are your thoughts on electrons and glorons and we just like missed glorons and they are so important and easy to discover but we missed it and have eben fuccking around and they laigh at our shitty science built around the gaping wound that is the absence of glorons

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Race of beings living deep in the heart of a sun arguing that the conditions outside of a star couldn't possibly support life because it's too cold and low pressure for life-critical chemical reactions to take place out there

[writing-prompt-s]

"After ten thousand years I rise again to destroy the kingdom of..." "It's gone." "I beg your pardon?" "The kingdom. It lasted like... I think around twenty-three years after you got sealed?" "Well... This is awkward... Still! No one will be able to stop me now!" "We have nuclear weapons now."

[kurara-black-blog]

I just love the "they're more scared of you than you are of them" thing because, yeah, Earth is a Deathworld filled with very dangerous beings, but also everyone in it is scared and would rather not interact with each other unless necessary

Alien: This is a very dangerous animal!

Human: Don't worry, we'll just walk away.

Alien: But it's watching us!

Human: It's hoping we leave already, so we're leaving.

Alien: It... It is?

Human: Yeah, it is more scared of us than we are of it. Let's go before the fight instinct kicks in because then it'll become a dangerous animal

Alien:...

[artsy-writy]

Humans fucking breath oxygen!?

Imagine oxygen being to aliens what chlorine gas is to us.

Human: We're finally here!! The planet we've been looking for 2 million light-years!

Alien: *talking into earpiece* I still don't know why the human captain wanted to come here of all planets- wait- don't take off your helmet!! *closes their eyes*

Human: *takes off helmet and breathes in the fresh oxygen* Oh wow. So this is the fresh air our ancestors breathed when the Earth was still a young one.

Alien: *slowly peaks with one eye, scared* Y-you're not dying?

Human: Yeah, I'm not. Why would you think-

Alien: *trembling* Because this planet is filled with...oxygen

Human: Yeah, I know. That's why we came here in the first place!

Alien: Y-you can breathe this poisonous gas?

Human: Not only that, we need it to survive

Alien: Oh damn, I can't imagine someone breathing any gas other than chlorine-

Human: CHLORINE!? THE SWIMMING POOL THING!?

Alien: the what-