Folks, these Trisolarans, they're bad news. They called me up and the phone, they said "Donald, Donald, you're a bug." And they were so rude, so rude! I told them "I'm not a bug, actually, and none of my very good friends are bugs. And we're not going to go easy on them, folks. We're gonna build big beautiful spaceships with rockets and missiles and lasers, so many lasers, and they're gonna be shaking in their boots. They're gonna be so scared they're gonna give us a big beautiful teardrop, so smooth and beautiful, to say how sorry they are.

the average galaxy produces about 100 technological species in its lifespan. we're probably the only space-faring species in this galaxy and maybe 1 in every thousand galaxies in the universe currently hosts one

source I guesstimated

That's funny, because it's also the year of the linux desktop!

"folks, I saw them, they looked straight out of central casting"

Trump saluting an alien like the North Korean generals when he met with Kim Jong-Un

I've already met aliens

Every year is first contact year to these weirdos

They want you speculating about whether there are other worlds in the heavens so that you don't demand disclosure of the afterlife. The truth is out there whether skeletons are real

First contact is always imminent for these people