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  • Опубликовано: 16 ноя 2024

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  • @brendamayfuller8803
    @brendamayfuller8803 2 года назад +495

    "A few thousand years ago a human picked up a rock. And the Malevolent Universe made that everyone elses problem." First Contact

    • @peterwall8191
      @peterwall8191 2 года назад +50

      *Brenda May Fuller *
      A few million year ago, some bat shit crazy people uplifted some apes, making them sapient.
      The multiverse has been cursing their name ever since.

    • @JosephKano
      @JosephKano 2 года назад +14

      I just finally got to Ep 823. I'm finally caught up amd waiting for the next chapter to drop. The shakes are already setting in. First Contact. Ralts Bloodthorne doesn't write First Contact. He is remembering the future...

    • @brendamayfuller8803
      @brendamayfuller8803 2 года назад +5

      @@JosephKano You might be able to ease the shakes by rereading and going through the comments. There is a lot of good stuff in the F.C. comments sections.
      Oh, and was the remembering the future comment about Jack Williamsons "The Legion of Space" trilogy?

    • @JosephKano
      @JosephKano 2 года назад +4

      @@brendamayfuller8803 no but know I may go looking for that thanks. It's a conclusion I'd reached from his writing style haha

    • @BeeKisses
      @BeeKisses Год назад +5

      Fuck that’s both poetic and prophetic

  • @Chokah
    @Chokah 2 года назад +213

    Alien: builds a ship the size of Jupiter
    Humans: starts throwing moons

    • @whyjnot420
      @whyjnot420 3 месяца назад

      Isn't that an arc from Space Battleship Yamato? :P

  • @Lord_Lasagña
    @Lord_Lasagña 2 года назад +208

    Xeno: you are technologically out-matched, outnumbered, and outgunned. How can you hope to defeat us, human?
    Human: *ROCK*

    • @marxel4444
      @marxel4444 2 года назад +14

      In military. Rock always beats flesh.

    • @randomlygeneratedname
      @randomlygeneratedname Год назад +9

      I only have rock but by golly you're going to fear my rock.

    • @DonPatrono
      @DonPatrono Год назад +4

      Xeno: We have plasma, laser and stuff, what could you possibly do?
      Humans: So basically....R E T U R N T O M O N K E

    • @Anom_Anom
      @Anom_Anom Год назад +3

      Xenos:we have an armada capable of destroying every empire known in the universe what are you going to do.
      Humans:Rock
      Xenos;What the fu-----
      CONTACT LOST

  • @DeathDefiant
    @DeathDefiant 2 года назад +280

    We emerged from dirt and we'll throw it if we have to...

  • @wrath2501
    @wrath2501 2 года назад +35

    Human: Hey buddy. I'm an engineer. That means I solve problems. For example, how do I deter some slavering xeno from tearing me a superfluous new behind. Answer. Throw a rock. And if that doesn't work. Throw a bigger rock.

    • @revampedharpy09
      @revampedharpy09 2 года назад +6

      and if that doesnt work, repeat until you cant find any bigger rocks to throw. if that still doesnt work, take the biggest rock you can, and throw it harder. repeat until the problem isnt a problem anymore.

    • @astron800
      @astron800 8 месяцев назад +1

      Until you’re throwing 200$ custom rocks at 10000 rocks per minute. Costing you 400000$ every 12 seconds.

  • @donanthebarbarian5177
    @donanthebarbarian5177 2 года назад +146

    If throwing a rock didn't solve or remove your problem you either didn't throw a big enough rock or you didn't throw it fast enough.

    • @karlhyetravelerofworlds
      @karlhyetravelerofworlds 2 года назад +18

      Or you didn't throw enough

    • @marxel4444
      @marxel4444 2 года назад +5

      In military. Rock always beats flesh.

    • @Adiscretefirm
      @Adiscretefirm Год назад +3

      You should have brought the whole clan, 30 rocks at once is exponentially better than 1 rock 30 times.

    • @micahscott3895
      @micahscott3895 11 месяцев назад +1

      Or your rock was to light

  • @funkmastaC
    @funkmastaC 2 года назад +185

    History of humanity in a nutshell. Throwing rocks and burning shit. Sometimes together.

    • @biggsdarklighter0473
      @biggsdarklighter0473 2 года назад +12

      But the rocks humanity burned were most often special rocks.

    • @bananaman5501
      @bananaman5501 2 года назад +3

      Some would even say funny rocks that did funny things.

    • @nooblangpoo
      @nooblangpoo Год назад +2

      Add making water boil to the list. Our history of power generation is mostly making water boil.

    • @Anom_Anom
      @Anom_Anom Год назад

      Alli in great quantities

  • @marxel4444
    @marxel4444 2 года назад +43

    This reminds me so much of stargate with the asgard and the replicators.
    The Asgard have tried to stop them. You have demonstrated their weakness may be found from a less sophisticated approach. We are no longer capable of such thinking.
    Wait a minute. You're actually saying that you need someone dumber than you are?
    You may have come to the right place.

  • @normiesalvador1854
    @normiesalvador1854 2 года назад +54

    Admiral Wells: "Now, if you'll excuse me, I see some rocks I'd like to add to my collection."

    • @trenttrent2786
      @trenttrent2786 7 месяцев назад

      I'll take the ship shaped rock and the planet shaped one

  • @slimeinabox
    @slimeinabox 2 года назад +26

    "Expanding her rock collection" made me giggle.

  • @soup4219
    @soup4219 2 года назад +89

    remember, moons and planets are just the biggest rocks we can find to throw naturally :)

    • @Overlord378.
      @Overlord378. 2 года назад +10

      And stars are just hot rocks!

    • @theexam7394
      @theexam7394 2 года назад +8

      Cores of a star are said to have so much pressure, that they can be naturally encased with diamond made from carbon byproducts of nuclear fusion, and diamond is a rock...

    • @pilotbubba4171
      @pilotbubba4171 Год назад +4

      @@theexam7394UNGA BUNGA BOOM

  • @vodamiinurl1337
    @vodamiinurl1337 Год назад +9

    I don't care how tough your armor is, my ninety five thousand ton projectile is still gonna bulldoze it.

  • @ferretzim8694
    @ferretzim8694 2 года назад +102

    If the enemy is using what amounts to a moving planet, what you need is a planet killer. Now, planet killers can come in all shapes and sizes. But nothing is as simple yet effective as a REALLY Big Rock

    • @Cosmopolantic
      @Cosmopolantic Год назад +4

      *REALLY Big EXPLOSIVE Rock

    • @user-sq5mr8ut1o
      @user-sq5mr8ut1o 3 месяца назад

      Dear Ambassadors,
      Allow me to show the human armada's greatest weapon, the "RBR"
      Unfortunately by the time you're seeing this it's too late, we sent them as soon as the war started, even before you knew this day would come, regardless of our position, we never intended to let you leave. We can't stop them, you can't stop them, we highly doubt any of your so called gods could. Unfortunately they will be arriving at your cradle worlds and here in exactly two seconds. I suggest you take this time to pray.

  • @fireblast133
    @fireblast133 2 года назад +75

    makes me think of the prophecy attack from Skies Of Arcadia Legends. When in doubt, use all your spirit and thrown a ****ing moon at the enemy

  • @allmyself666
    @allmyself666 2 года назад +273

    Aliens: "Our high tech plasma and energy based weapons have no effect against them. What could primitives possibly do?"
    Humanity: *return to monke intensifies*

    • @johnnymellon7414
      @johnnymellon7414 2 года назад +19

      *monke smash*

    • @SoMuchFacepalm
      @SoMuchFacepalm 2 года назад +19

      Aliens: "Our high tech plasma and energy based weapons have no effect against them. What could primitives possibly do?"
      Humanity: Let me show you the meaning of the word YEET!

    • @zacharyhawley1693
      @zacharyhawley1693 2 года назад +1

      Humanity: >:D Sir Issac Newton is the deadliest son of a bitch in space

    • @SoMuchFacepalm
      @SoMuchFacepalm 2 года назад

      69th like. Just cause.

    • @Cyrission
      @Cyrission 2 года назад +8

      Can we get an "Unga Bunga" train going.

  • @Felix-gv1ij
    @Felix-gv1ij 2 года назад +70

    We use the pocket dirt tech...and is always effective

    • @DomR1997
      @DomR1997 2 года назад +11

      Sand is lethal, the grain in my shoe at the gym last night can prove this.

    • @spudmuffin2688
      @spudmuffin2688 2 года назад +5

      [Humanity used sand attack] it was super effective

    • @kdrapertrucker
      @kdrapertrucker 2 года назад +2

      Ah yes, the Dale Gribbles stategem.

  • @singletona082
    @singletona082 9 месяцев назад +4

    Humans to the most advanced and terrifying literal War-World in the universe:
    I'm gonna put dirt in your eye.

  • @DonPatrono
    @DonPatrono Год назад +6

    ah yes the old adage ever since hominids started to exist:
    "When in doubt, YEET
    If it don't work, Y E E T M O R E"

  • @kakapokid1796
    @kakapokid1796 2 года назад +38

    *sees rock
    Monkey brain goes brrrr

  • @HimitsuYami
    @HimitsuYami 2 года назад +28

    To be fair, we do throw rocks *really* well

  • @Gargoyle9000
    @Gargoyle9000 2 года назад +12

    You know, I didn't expect Earth being literally translated would work but that last line not just matches the energy of saying Planet Earth but also feels natural. It just works.

  • @cantharelluscibarius2244
    @cantharelluscibarius2244 2 года назад +55

    Rock and stone! To the bone!

  • @Di3Leberwurst
    @Di3Leberwurst 10 месяцев назад +4

    This story inspired me to start my search for my own personal rock. I want my own important rock.

    • @singletona082
      @singletona082 9 месяцев назад

      A nice sturdy rock. There are worse goals out there.

  • @generalnawaki
    @generalnawaki 2 года назад +32

    a shield to dissipate kinetic damage would only work up so such an amount. anything traveling at or near relativistic speeds would punch through a star so shielding of any kind probably wouldn't suffice.

    • @DaxSudo
      @DaxSudo 2 года назад +8

      Heck mathematically if u threw a rock fast enough u could mess w a black hole I think... shit I'm a physicist and engineer now I gotta go run the numbers... I'll attach a blog post when I'm done.

    • @bennood2031
      @bennood2031 Год назад +6

      @@DaxSudo ...you don't even need to run the numbers F = G(m1m2)/R2 is a well known formula that's used in high school.
      A very small rock, thrown by a human, will move a blackhole a rather infinitely small amount, but it will. Its why (very small) things can escape the event horizon very occasionally.

    • @jakobrosenqvist4691
      @jakobrosenqvist4691 Год назад +4

      And even if the shields don't fail, preservation of momentum is still a thing so the ship has to somehow absorb all that momentum.

    • @generalnawaki
      @generalnawaki Год назад +4

      @@jakobrosenqvist4691 exactly, its why we would never move away from MAC's once we have them. why adopt a new weapon when this one works in every situation.

    • @maxwyght1840
      @maxwyght1840 10 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@DaxSudo​no, it wouldn't.
      At this point we've observed enough black hole mergers to know that.
      When non black hole bodies collide, they may ripple and shatter, throwing out material and so on.
      Black holes...
      Don't.
      When black holes merge, it happens instantly the moment the two touch, and instead of 2 black holes orbiting each other with their surfaces touching, you instantly have a new black hole with a mass slightly lower than the total of the 2 initial black holes.
      The reason the mass is lower is because that lost mass is what fuels the absolutely UNIVERSE shaking forces required to create gravitational waves.
      Unless by "affect" you mean "nudge slightly", in which case, yes, probably.

  • @Astavyastataa
    @Astavyastataa 2 года назад +4

    If throwing rocks sucked so bad the Romans wouldn’t have had slingsmen in their legions.

  • @Troleandocreyentes
    @Troleandocreyentes 2 года назад +8

    Violence is never the answer… is a question.
    The answer is yes.

    • @rowbot5555
      @rowbot5555 2 года назад

      The answer is "how much?"

  • @DeHerg
    @DeHerg Год назад +3

    Yup, relativistic kill missile, the only thing that can bring more energy on target than its own R0 (apart from photons of course).

  • @grogvaughan5649
    @grogvaughan5649 Год назад +6

    The rock came before the pointy stick.

  • @CosmicSalt69
    @CosmicSalt69 2 года назад +7

    Planets? They are just big rocks! Simple.

  • @quwertzquwerty1545
    @quwertzquwerty1545 2 года назад +10

    Xenos: you primitives can't do a thing!!!
    Humans: lets see... where did I put my scroll with the meteor shower spell on it 👁👄👁

  • @Zedyne
    @Zedyne 2 года назад +23

    Ah yes, monke throw rock!

    • @serpentinious7745
      @serpentinious7745 2 года назад +2

      Monke break!

    • @Cosmopolantic
      @Cosmopolantic Год назад +1

      Monke make sharp rock
      Monke put sharp rock on stick
      Monke make sharper rock and put it on stick
      Monke put small sharp rock and put it on small stick and throw it with stick and string
      Monke put small rock in stick and use boom boom stone powder to throw it
      Monke put more small rock in stick, put it in stick and throw it

  • @Greg-l8l
    @Greg-l8l Год назад +1

    But we set it before. I've watched this or listened to the several times this needs a sequel a series. It's fantastic

  • @DEMONOFLOVEANDDEATH
    @DEMONOFLOVEANDDEATH 2 года назад +7

    Bless the Narrator
    Bless the Author

  • @Staladus
    @Staladus 2 года назад +10

    Monke throw rock

  • @MrJay_White
    @MrJay_White 2 года назад +6

    a cup of "klef"? at least its not a cup of bright. ... maybe.

    • @happy_amoeba
      @happy_amoeba 2 года назад

      I mean, i'm sure we can get another cup of joe from 294

  • @scarystories1800
    @scarystories1800 Год назад

    “They throw rocks.” Hey, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.

  • @kroberts8866
    @kroberts8866 2 года назад +8

    Mmmm a good cup of klef in the morning!

  • @smaragdwolf1
    @smaragdwolf1 Год назад +2

    Rocks, Boulders, Mountains, Asteroids, Moons, Planets,...... it all can be described as Rocks :)

  • @randomlygeneratedname
    @randomlygeneratedname Год назад +1

    Honestly this Is very true the entirety of human history is rock. Throw rock, make better thrown rock or make something to stop rock.

  • @chrisdufresne9359
    @chrisdufresne9359 Год назад +1

    Well, that plan rocked

  • @daveturnbull7221
    @daveturnbull7221 4 месяца назад

    This author is well worth checking out over on reddit. Really nice work on the narration NN 👍

  • @juancarlonavarra8397
    @juancarlonavarra8397 2 года назад +25

    For a moment, I thoight the entire human race were earthbenders.

  • @additiveartificer9365
    @additiveartificer9365 2 года назад +1

    We have refine our rock throwing skill since we first hunt

  • @rat_king-
    @rat_king- 2 года назад +3

    Her Majesties rock collection? 5:40

  • @jkbscopes1233
    @jkbscopes1233 2 года назад +15

    monkey throw rock, monkey break

  • @Troleandocreyentes
    @Troleandocreyentes Год назад

    A few aliens think they can outsmart us… maybe.
    We still want to meet someone that can outsmart a rock.

  • @norneaernourn8240
    @norneaernourn8240 6 месяцев назад

    Maybe that's why no aliens have invaded yet. They be thinking, these apes toss rocks and chuck spears and they have an asteroid belt.

  • @Maeshalanadae
    @Maeshalanadae Год назад

    Boy, remember that we responded to call of aid when nobody else would. Don’t put us down.

  • @CodexisInkwind
    @CodexisInkwind Год назад +1

    Never underestimate how hard or fast we will figure out how to throw a rock

  • @rustycowell7264
    @rustycowell7264 Месяц назад

    Special relationships with rocks makes us sound like we are mental and i have thrown a lot of rocks

  • @spudmuffin2688
    @spudmuffin2688 2 года назад +2

    Interplanetary pocket sand

  • @KroMagnum4
    @KroMagnum4 2 года назад +1

    Monkey throw really big rocks.
    Really really big

  • @lancethewisp1097
    @lancethewisp1097 Год назад

    “They throw rocks?”
    With speed mister squidward with speed

  • @איליגוטמן-צפון
    @איליגוטמן-צפון 2 года назад +4

    rock power for the win

  • @thomasschafer5939
    @thomasschafer5939 Год назад

    "Well, it was a big rock..."

  • @zaBeheaded
    @zaBeheaded Год назад +1

    Don’t underestimate the power of rock and stone

  • @GentlemanBystander
    @GentlemanBystander 2 года назад +7

    >Primarch
    >they're Xenos
    [Crusades externally]

  • @nicholassmile5800
    @nicholassmile5800 Год назад

    This might be my favorite story

  • @virtualatheist
    @virtualatheist 11 месяцев назад +1

    This looks technical... I'll need a bigger hammer.

  • @Kidozy
    @Kidozy Год назад

    I was hopping for big fuck-off railgun/Gauss gun turrets, giant astroids will do

  • @carlfranz6805
    @carlfranz6805 Год назад

    Well, nobody else said it:
    ROCK ON!

  • @ckelley1102
    @ckelley1102 Год назад

    Infinite pocket sand glitch

  • @joimumu
    @joimumu 9 месяцев назад

    So back to basics :)

  • @aljoker2013
    @aljoker2013 2 года назад +2

    Dirt gang

  • @riyanafrizal4188
    @riyanafrizal4188 2 года назад +1

    space oonga boonga

  • @ShinigamiSparda
    @ShinigamiSparda Год назад

    Nevah Enuff Rock.

  • @klackon1
    @klackon1 Год назад

    I enjoy most of these SciFi stories, but many authors share a common issue: they have no concept of numbers. So many write of millions or billions of FTL ships, without understanding such numbers. To put it into some sort of perspective, one million seconds is the equivalent of about 11.5 days. One billion seconds about the equivalent of 31.7 years.

  • @dr.disaster6235
    @dr.disaster6235 4 месяца назад

    We Rock!

  • @executor31
    @executor31 Год назад

    Those are not rocks anymore. Not at 10% light speed , they are relativistic projectiles

  • @BeeKisses
    @BeeKisses Год назад

    PLANET DIRT OMG 🥺🥺

  • @Cemtexify
    @Cemtexify 2 года назад +7

    You can tell when a writer doesn't know much about military history when they have the enemy super weapon be a massive ship, worked out super well for the Bismark, Yamato, and Musashi. Hell aircraft carriers need to have a support group of around 20 additional ships to not fall victim to this kind of thing. Super heavy battle tanks were also not traditionally as effective as medium tanks in world war 2 and the Toyota Hilux has proven to be a more effective war machine in recent decades. Look up the Toyota war if you don't believe me, some absolute chads took on the Libyan army with some Toyota Hilux's and won.

    • @ferretzim8694
      @ferretzim8694 2 года назад +4

      Then again, this is an alien civilization, so they probably don't have the same ideas when it comes to unit types and formations. The planet-ship did also have an "escort". It just happens that the support group was stationed *on top* of what they were meant to protect, instead of flying cover for it. Lastly, it's clear their strategy was sound...against enemies not used to hurling rocks of various sizes. If the humans hadn't been there, they would have won. Their strategy and doctrine just wasn't designed to account for humans.
      It's easy to point and critizise someone's decisions, and mention history. Bismark and Tirpitz were good ships, and to a degree succeeded in their purpose. Bismark was such a threat that the Royal Navy dedicated a substantial amount of resources to hunting it down. And even then, it took a lot to actually sink her. Tirpitz was a constant potential threat, despite being hidden up in the fjords. And again it took a lot to sink her.

    • @generalharness8266
      @generalharness8266 Год назад +1

      I have to point out that the Bismark, Yamato and Musashi did not fight what they where designed to do.
      All 3 where effectively sunk or disabled though air power when they where designed to fight other capital ships in gun duels. There where 9 battles where gun capital ships engaged each other none of them involved the Yamato or the Musashi. Of those battles the Bismark was engaged in 2, One with hood (which it won) and one with King George (which it lost). I have to point out that the bismark was also not anywhere near the level of Yamato and was instead a slightly better then the comparable ships in the United kingdoms navy.
      In the battle where humans aimed rocks at 10% the speed of light from a asteroid belt there is so much more wrong with the battle then one supper ship (which sounds like its a converted homeworld).

  • @LinusTimon
    @LinusTimon 5 месяцев назад

    Me throw rock good:)

  • @WiredTurkey316
    @WiredTurkey316 2 года назад

    Yep still a good story

  • @WallNutBreaker524
    @WallNutBreaker524 Год назад

    Rocks strong 💪😎👌

  • @sanguiniusonvacation1803
    @sanguiniusonvacation1803 2 года назад +1

    Yeet

  • @Bdady74
    @Bdady74 2 года назад +1

    Algorithm appeasement comment!

  • @Sgtnolisten
    @Sgtnolisten 2 года назад +4

    “They named it dirt”
    *sigh* I am so sick of that fucking “joke”

    • @TheSolidSnakeOil
      @TheSolidSnakeOil 9 месяцев назад

      If we only came up with a better name than dirt...

  • @VelaiciaCreator
    @VelaiciaCreator 2 года назад +14

    Getting real pissed at stupid writers who seem to believe we named the planet after the element, rather than the other way around.

    • @ghosteyes2034
      @ghosteyes2034 2 года назад +5

      Party pooper, its the alien perspective.

    • @VelaiciaCreator
      @VelaiciaCreator 2 года назад +1

      @@ghosteyes2034 That would still be an inaccurate translation. We named the dirt and rocks after our planet, as they are parts of it. That would be reflected in translations. "Earth" would not translate into "dirt".

    • @dalemorgan8263
      @dalemorgan8263 2 года назад +5

      @@VelaiciaCreator his point is that the mistranslation was on the xeno's part. It is written from their perspective, and translated in real time by a device.

    • @VelaiciaCreator
      @VelaiciaCreator 2 года назад +2

      @@dalemorgan8263 All the same it comes from a flawed perspective, regardless of the excuse given. This is not the first time I have seen this misconception used for "comedy".

    • @dalemorgan8263
      @dalemorgan8263 2 года назад +2

      @@VelaiciaCreator ffs, if humans don't know the difference despite it being their native language how could we expect aliens to be more knowledgeable?
      A translation device would require a lot more context to be able to parse the etymology *that* precisely.
      Get off yer high horse.

  • @JRRodriguez-nu7po
    @JRRodriguez-nu7po 8 месяцев назад

    Excellent story, and throwing rocks is one of the many ways that shows the basic difference between the 2 (two) human sexes=genders.
    Men are over tge top, and wonen are underhanded.
    Yup, that there's facts.

  • @eg6559
    @eg6559 2 года назад +1

    First