31 Mar 2021, 4:20 pm
Source: Gahan Wilson's Sci-Fi Plot Generator
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31 Mar 2021, 4:23 pm
Why do you think they're avoiding us?
Ugh, watch out for Solar 3, it's a little blue and green ball of condensed xenophobia. 
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01 Apr 2021, 10:12 pm
I'm looking at that question, "Are Space-Alien Stereotypes Offensive?" and thinking that since there are no known space aliens, how can someone who doesn't exist be stereotyped?
Or, at the most, you would be stereotyping etherical figments of someone's imagination, so, again, how can the be real stereotypes of what is not real?
Or are figments of imagination themselves a kind of material reality?
And how did the word stereotype come to mean what we use it for anyway?
Hmm ...
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=stereotype
1798, "method of printing from a plate," from French stéréotype (adj.) "printed by means of a solid plate of type," from Greek stereos "solid" (see stereo-) + French type "type" (see type (n.)). Meaning "a stereotype plate" is from 1817. Meaning "image perpetuated without change" is first recorded 1850, from the verb in this sense. Meaning "preconceived and oversimplified notion of characteristics typical of a person or group" is recorded from 1922 (Walter Lippmann, "Public Opinion").
And if there is a stereotype is there also a monotype
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=monotype
monotype (n.)
1881 in biology, "the single or sole type of a species in its genus, a genus in its family, etc.;" 1882 in printers' arts, "a print from a picture painted on a metal plate" (only one proof can be made, as the picture is transferred to the paper); 1893 as a brand name of typesetting machine; see mono- + type. Related: Monotypic (1878 in the biological sense)
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01 Apr 2021, 10:15 pm
Or, at the most, you would be stereotyping etherical figments of someone's imagination, so, again, how can the be real stereotypes of what is not real?
Or are figments of imagination themselves a kind of material reality?
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/facetious
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02 Apr 2021, 5:34 am
Actually ...there is one "stereotype" of space aliens that (if they really exist) actual space aliens would likely find laughable.
That being the notion ...among male Earth dwellers...that invading space aliens would want...earth women!
Male space aliens would have as much desire to ravish Earth woman as the Orkin Man has to....RAPE the queen of the ant colony that is infesting your house! 
Its unlikely that creatures that evolved on an exoplanet would find us sexually attractive, nor we them.
So... invaders in flying saucers may be after booty (our mineral resources), but theyre not after "booty".
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