• KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
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    2 months ago

    This would legitimately be the greatest prank anyone could ever possibly pull. It wouldn’t even have to be 8 billion, just enough for everyone they could possibly interact with for a few days after landing. And they’d all have to really commit to the bit. I think this is the one thing that can truly unify us as a species.

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      2 months ago

      It’d be even easier to do because astronauts usually have health checkups and quarantine after returning home. Most people would just need to wear hazmat suits.

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        2 months ago

        Yeah, but would the apes do these checkups or would the astronauts try to find out what the fuck happened?

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          2 months ago

          Clearly it would be apes in hazmat suits

          Edit: but they’d have to play off that they were the first humans sent to space, and apes had been there for a long time