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In the same vein as other ‘things humans do that aliens might be weirded out by’ what if human pattern recognition skills were the thing? Like the ability to see a cloud resolve into a dog, or faces in wall patterns. Stuff that evolved from predators having camouflaging abilities, or let’s face it, bugs that can look basicaly like a leaf to prey ON. 

Imagine an alien being super confounded by a human being like ‘oh, that control board looks like a face’ and it’s just this big grouping of random lights and line but no ALL the humans on board think it looks like a FACE and theyve started NAMING it. And it just seems so confusing- is there anything on this flat painted wall? ‘No of course not’ HOW IS THERE AN OF COURSE NOT. What about in that galaxy? And the human squints and stares at it and says ‘yeah, it looks like a cat.’

And they an draw out what they’re recognizing in the lines but it’s just so strange. 

And then an enemy develops ‘cloaking technology’ that’s based on camouflaging and are so angry that every single human is able to point it out because it’s a completely obvious moving shape to them. 

or: alien species are introduced to leaf insects, tigers, and that one octopus that imitates a coconut and freak the heck out.

god I love this kind of post

“What do you mean you can still see me?”

The humans in the room, all four of them that were invited to witness The Gar’likx’it council’s unveiling of the newest cloaking technology, stare at the Grand Iikxiir with confusion.

The leader of the scientific core spoke, the translator kicking in a moment later, “Sir, I uh.. I mean, it’s just clothing patterned to match the wallpaper.”

A second human added, “I.. I uh mean, it’s not even done well, sir? The pattern is off at the seams,”

Iikxiir clicked irritably as the other humans moved their singular cranial structures in unison, several adding the now-recognizable agreement hum in their chest cavities. “It took our top engineers 9 solar cycles to come up with this!”

“Uhm, I don’t mean to speak out of turn, but perhaps maybe Stu could help?” said the leader, gesturing to the larger human seated at the back, “He’s pretty handy with sewing, could at the very least adjust the pattern to match… but, Uhm..”

“It’s green, sir.”

Iikxir flicked it’s eyestalks towards the reverberation, “What is green?”

“It’s a color sir. We can see them, and uh… the wall’s blue.”