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if they are extraterrestrials, wtf are they doing on terra, or rather, in / under oceania?

/jk

also, no way they can be superintelligent, if they came here, even once. bcoz, u no, shipz propellers, orcas, etc.

I'd say Douglas Adams novels are full of superintelligent and/or superpowered entities that don't always think things through properly. There's a serious Murphy's Law flavor to his scenarios, even if you're the President of the Galaxy or the Man Who Rules the Universe or a planetary engineer or the most intelligent robot ever built or whatever. You're still going to trip and fall, or experience unrequited love, or get stranded on a boring planet, or have an embarrassing misunderstanding, or concoct a wacky scheme that goes wrong somehow.

Given human events, he was not wrong in that conclusion. (If we even consider ourselves super intelligent)

astute - you and gp both.

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