Post #102905

2025-12-31 11:00 UTC

@losttourist@social.chatty.monster @cstross@wandering.shop @tek@freeradical.zone I've been warning people for years. I have a theory. The fact that we've never been able to detect any extraterrestrial life out there is down to the theoretical "Great Filter" but I suspect rather than filtering out war-like species or species with a particular level of technology.. I propose that some technologically advanced species is destroying systems where the inhabitants have discovered Marmite or Marmite like substances. Just like every species has its own variation of Gin and Tonics (jynnan tonnyx, gee-N'N-T'N-ix, or jinond-o-nicks) I calculate that at some point in a species development they become self destructive and invent a Marmite analogue and this is seen as an affront to the universe and must be erased. Nature may abhor a vacuum but the universe really hates Marmite.

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@dwm@mastodon.social 2025-12-31 11:16

@PeteLittle @losttourist @cstross @tek But this should ensure our survival! Aliens now finally have a place with a lifeform that can usefully metabolise that toxic Marmite® and use that energy constructively, such as by making puns.

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@fallen_angela@tech.lgbt 2025-12-31 12:25

@PeteLittle and trust humans to come up with multiple versions themselves @losttourist @cstross @tek

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@Jbear5@floofy.tech 2025-12-31 12:35

@tek @PeteLittle @losttourist @cstross I would love to have some marmite this morning. Alas.

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@annehargreaves@ioc.exchange 2025-12-31 14:27

@PeteLittle @losttourist @cstross @tek Enough with the antimarmitism! DEI!

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@spaf@mstdn.social 2025-12-31 19:45

@PeteLittle @losttourist @cstross @tek Marmite is tasty with Malort.

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@SteveClough@metalhead.club 2025-12-31 21:21

@PeteLittle @losttourist @cstross @tek I guess that an alien species would not want to deal with a people who have discovered and are eating the Food of the Gods. We must be at least semi-divine. Possibly, some of us are already actual Gods.

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