We've Talked A Little About This Before, But Let's Dive Into The Why.

We've talked a little about this before, but let's dive into the why.

Why are aliens so opposed to humans smiling?

One of the most well known and widely warned about traits of humans is their smile. The alien species known as humans use smiling as a means of friendliness. Various context clues trigger a smile, from "I am showing I am happy to see you", to "I'm trying to diffuse the tense situation," to even "I hate you but I'm gonna be polite about it." With so many "friendly" uses, humans smile and they're smile a LOT. Even a more knowledgeable human can slip up.

Even on their own planet, humans are one of the very few who do this. Similar species, both apes and monkeys, will smile in either submission or aggression.

Teeth are a common occurrence across the universe. They evolve for one or both reasons: to eat (especially meat) and for defense.

If an alien is from ancestors who were often bottom of the food chain, it stands to reason that a smile translates to "I will eat you."

With predator species, a smile subconciously translates to one of two things. Defensive or dominance.

Dominance: "I am better than you. I will bite you if you don't agree."

Defensive: "I feel threatened. I will bite you if you don't back off."

Though rare, a handful of alien species consider smiling to be a submissive trait. "My teeth are clamped. I won't bite you." This could have led to humans being bullied, if humans were so easily bullied.

Just as aliens are warned of this trait, so are the humans. A single, uninformed human can quickly cause a lot of stress and tension in a ship simply by trying to do the opposite.

The best course of action, everyone found, was a simple tool. Masks are often put to use to hide the ferocious smiles.

Humans are space heisters

Look who's back with another humans are space orcs post that nobody asked for!

Anyway, ya'll know about heist films or prison break films? Ones where a gang of misfits or whatever band together and create and elaborate plan to pull off a near impossible task? Like escaping Alcatraz or stealing the mona lisa or something?

Well if humans really are space orcs then I imagine crime would be pretty tame in space until we come along. At most you'd maybe get a fine for loitering or a court hearing for speeding.

Now imagine humans come into the galactic council and as they join and adopt the systems of the space society a small group of criminals decide they want to shoot for the moon and pull off a heist in the most high security bank in the known galaxy.

It starts off with human telivision broadcasting the wonders of alien civilization. They briefly show off the biggest bank our would-be heisters have ever seen. After that they start to formulate a plan.

On the day of the heist they strategically position themselves around the bank and all start their attacks at once, donning masks and pulling out weaponry telling everyone to get on the floor.

They'd probably not be taken seriously at first, but then they shoot a security guard and everybody panics. There are no security systems in place because this kind of stuff has never happened. So by the time the heisters escape with a shitload of money the authorities have yet to hear about what's happening.

Imagine the news that would be reported the day that the heist goes off: "group of psycho human criminals hold civilians hostage and steal untold amounts of money from [bank name]"

Only for humans to be like, "Yeah, criminals do that." And the rest of space civilization just being like: "What. The. Fuck"

Alien:... I'm sorry, what?

Human: oh yeah, appareny it really did happen. That's how we developed our datings I think, by determining how long ago since Christ died.

Alien: YOU CRUCIFIED A GOD?!

Human: woah, not me personally! This happened centuries ago. He could not have picked a worse time to come.

Alien: YOUR SPECIES KILLED A GOD! HOW ARE YOU NOT ALARMED?!

Human: Oh! It's all good. He says all is forgiven as long as we're nice to each other, and we follow his rules.

Nurse Trouble

(Part 1)

John rushed down the hall, very nearly late to the meeting with the new doctor. He slipped in the door and looked towards the three others in the room.

"John!" Dr. Marlin exclaimed with feigned excitement, "I'm glad you could join us. Come, sit" She pointed to a seat in front of the desk.

John sat, feeling slightly squished by the individuals sitting in chairs on either side of him.

Aliens. John had never met an alien in person before. Once, an Alax'ot joined in on a lecture while he was still studying, bit he hadn't had the chance to converse then. But now? Was the new doctor an alien?

"Doctor Jeva, Commander Müsk, meet Nurse John Grayson. He's the one I've been telling you of!" Dr.Marlin had a large grin. The two individuals both turned to John, and he wasn't sure who to look at first.

"Nice to meet you, ah, who is who? If I might ask..." John said nervously. He really wanted this to go well. The individual on his left smiled.

It was an unnaturally large smile, that only added to John's nervousness. He smiled a bit wider back, trying not to look as scared as he felt. "I am Doctor Jeva, that is Commander Müsk. It is nice to meet one another, especially after so many fascinating stories." Jeva's voice was smooth and deep.

Colors

My other posts related to the senses: Taste and Smell and Touch

This has been brought up, but I kind of want to think about it a little more.

Human sight is a big part of how we experience reality, and people have talked about how our colored sight could be really rare.

I am now taking this idea and running with it.

I saw a post that talks about how humans would have to re-paint rooms that use really stressful colors, but what if the color that the human used to re-paint the room was stressful to a different type of alien.

Maybe the galactic community has spent years finding a specific color that works for all species, and then suddenly these humans come in with their weird eyes, and blow the whole thing up.

What if the aliens gave a human a color coded puzzle, butthe human can’t see half the colors on it. (I’m pretty sure that they’d try to solve it anyway-) People have talked about aliens being able to see our stripes, and being able to see us glow, but no one thinks of the color implications of that.

Rubix cubes is space would have to have so many variations

Humans are space warriors

So ya'll know about war? It's a crappy thing, isn't it? Families being torn apart, murder being commonplace, stealing what belongs to completely different cultures of people. All because some Rich dumbasses didn't like the way another country looked at them.

Humans are pretty good at fighting, so much so that we even make sports out of it, mma, paintball/airsoft deciding who gets the last slice of pizza out of your siblings; it's safe to say we humans don't exactly shy away from violence, between action movies, most video games and some of the sports I just mentioned it's become a common part of our lives.

Now, considering that Earth might be a deathworld, it's safe to say that this probably isn't normal across space culture. I'm willing to bet this would make us a very feared and/or respected member of the galactic council, making us especially good at being security guards, bouncers, soldiers, etc.

Again though, Earth is a deathworld, so our normal civilians would most likely outclass even the most well trained fighters from other races, but what about our pros? The cream of the crop? The people with looks that can kill.

I think it's fair to say that soldiers or martial artists would essentially be seen as mythical unkillible demigod. Certain aliens would most likely search for these people like an apprentice looking for the kung-fu master only known through legend, hearsay and that one shitty movie that no one liked based off of their life.

Not only that, in fighting we have mutual respect for one another... most of the time, but ignoring dickheads who kick someone while they're down and people who support the british soccer team, humans will know when to draw the line and let their opponent recover.

This culminates in us being one of the most well trained warriors and most well disciplined fighters in all of the galaxy.