Thank goodness for the Culture.

Perhaps it's the Affront.

They'd stop a nuclear war just so they could hunt and eat us.

Ah, but the long-term stress hormones from fighting to survive in a post apocalyptic would improve the flavour of human flesh.

BTW, does anybody else visualise the Affront (insanely sadistic alien race who fail to get what they undoubtedly deserve in Iain M. Banks' novel Excession) as Kang and Kodos from The Simpsons?

I had Barlow's Guide to Extraterrestrials as a kid, so I think of them like this:

So, an arboreal octopus wearing a Russian hat?

Plus some eye stalks and a buoyancy bladder.

I'm shocked, shocked to find "the moon landing was faked" nonsense in this article's comments.

Even people who went to the moon think it was faked?

The mun landing was faked... On duna?

Needs more struts.

Clearly aliens don't care about Hiroshima, Jews, Malaria or the Holocene extinction.

I wonder if this was written by RT's Illuminati correspondent? Seems like a good fit.

RT.

LOL.