The Old Ones are coming

Mystery roar detected in space

???

What the frak?

It's the Ogdru Jahad! The Seven Who Are One! (DC fans may replace this comment with Darkseid; Marvel fans may replace it with Galactus.)

They'll be here in 2012.

Also, I find this story to be very awesome. I have always been interested, mystified, and awed by space.

HOW ARE YOU ALL SO CALM?!?!?!??!??!??!??!?!?!?!

Seriously, though, I can't believe the link to that news story takes me to Yahoo! News. I would expect to find that shit on the Pentagon's website, right underneath their plans for a massive defensive space fleet.

I want there to be aliens. So. Fucking. Bad. I want our entire world view, cosmos, culture, technology... our total existence to be called into question when aliens come and dash everything we take for granted against the rocks.

And then I want them to teach us the secret to living forever, so I can be immortal and travel the stars for eternity.

YAY!

The only reason they'd be coming here is they want our spices.

I'm not worried yet. Ten to one it's a leak from their own equipment.

the paprika must flow!

Fhtagn?

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-TM

I hope they show up and, with surprise, ask, "What the fuck are all of you still doing here? You were supposed to jump on the Hale-Bopp Comet! We were just here to clean up the mess. Well, shit, I better call this in. I don't know if we can arrange for another one of those."

I for one welcome our new roaring overlords.

Six times brighter than the emissions from all other radio sources in the universe put together?

jumping jesus on a pogo stick, do you ever take your tinfoil hat off?

It's as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.

Have none of you ever read H. P. Lovecraft? Kids these days.

^^

Did anyone not get the reference? I didn't see that. I saw people not acknowledging it, but so?

Anyways.

This space roar was twice as loud as three normal space roars.

Some of us are geeky enough that the Lovecraft ref is expected, not expected to cause a direct reaction acknowledging that it is a Lovecraft ref.

But thanks... grandma?

If only someone had posted a comic to indicate they got the reference. Oh... wait...

Hell, I knew what he was talking about when I read "Old Ones" before even clicking on the topic.

Now, if someone can name the source of my "This space roar was twice as loud as three normal space roars" reference, I'll be impressed.

I think that's the only nerd reference in the thread I didn't get.

Dude, that wasn't "Laserblast," by chance, was it?

Nah, it's Futurama. Just a fairly obscure reference. Farnsworth was describing a "super data cube" that they needed, Fry asked how big it was, Farnsworth replies that it's twice as big as three normal data cubes.

When I saw that this space roar was six times louder than expected, I had to take it.

I'm pretty sure she exists in her own bubble reality.

It won't save her.