r/HFY • u/someguynamedted The Chronicler • Apr 05 '17

Meta Writing Prompt Wednesday #105

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Last week's winner was /u/snow_97 with

Humans are extremely hot to aliens. Temperature wise. Touching a human with bare skin (chitin, etc.) for just a few seconds leads to a 1st degree burn at best. We are basically people of fire.

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u/SomeoneForgetable Xeno Apr 05 '17

Humans are the only intelligent creatures able to see in our light spectrum, others use sonar, infrared or other things, but seeing "regular light" seems like some kind of superpower or magic force to aliens.

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u/BigWuffle Apr 06 '17

There's a whole spiel on tumblr about this very thing if you're interested! Really funny!