Arirals. Literally
Boy what a rabbit hole I just went down
This already happened.
There’s a story about a scout ship that landed in the Western Hemisphere of Sol 3, and they decided to talk with the locals.
They offered them anything they wanted from the unitary matter replicator, as a show of good faith.
Unfortunately the counselors had absolutely no idea what a “pothead” or “stoner” was and so the two humans left after each synthesizing a bushel (a long branch around 2 meters tall) of a cannabinoid dense Terran plant.
They lodged their reports that the species on Sol 3 wasn’t intelligent enough to understand technology given they requested herbs/plants from a machine that could produce literally any compound known to nature, including cures for many diseases afflicting their world.
The subchapter text was based on the vocalizations of the pair, who said: “Ayyy” followed by “Lah-Mao”.
:vivid shrug:
ESPECIALLY space heroin…
Ah, I knew I’d find someone with real class in here somewhere
Turns out everything humans need to live on is like hard spice for every other species
US gov 15 minutes later: “So anyways we’re going to fund NASA with 3 trillion dollars, because…sciencey reasons! Absolutely NOT to get rich selling water to aliens at a ridiculous markup”
If they started raining down as much free insulin and chemotherapy drugs as we asked for, how long would it be before an American pharma company tried to nuke them?
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