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Yeah, sure, it’s an old party joke. All dong jokes work well after fifteen shots, when you begin to notice interstellar aliens on the way to the bathroom.
Nevertheless, my best thought on the subject’s topic was that some sentient beings were drawn when they had sensed a massive increase in radiation levels. There was no way in the world they would have known what was going on out here; furthermore, they wouldn’t risk amassing a force to unleash it here without deploying scouts first. At the best scenario, the resident intelligence (us) would have repelled the invader to a level where the portals are closed, or even destroyed. Their horror would be that if they even manage to prevail, the Earth’s self-sustaining ecosystem turns on them (something like Kevin G. wrote) so the vegetation and large carnivorous carbon-based organisms take over once again.
So, even though I am a great fan of alien mystery, that T-Rex card beats the other Mecha-Alien card on the pile, truth be told.
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The coolest, most unbelievable and possibly-impossible thing to do with the dimension-portal dogma of the CataDDA would be that if humans here had opened the doors to THAT realm, the mutants from the universe of Fallout, who eventually won the war for the arid, nuclear Wasteland f***ed themselves up by opening a door to THIS realm, the Cataclysm Earth.
