From: me@privacy.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:57:05 -0500, William Hyde wrote:   
      
   > I believe that SF writers got there first.  But in those stories the   
   > aliens were more clever, passing on information rather than building   
   > useless objects.   
   >   
   > Still, given how stupid we are, perhaps aliens would also be dumb enough   
   > to think:   
   >   
   > "We need to help these poor people! Gimme three pyramids, stat!"   
      
   Maybe it was just us people being stupid. Too stupid to pass on   
   information to?   
      
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