It doesn’t look like any of the hostile satellites we know of:

Does NOT approve.

Boom?

“forcing us to perpetually experience a five-second loop of happiness for eternity, as Bostrom speculates...”

Thank God they re-mastered that recording of 8 hours of brown noise. The original album version was unlistenable. And don’t get me started on the live version.   : )

“You say there is much your civilization could teach ours. But perhaps there is something that I could teach you—namely, how to scream like a parrot when I put your big Martian head in a vise.”

It happens to humans, too

Great series, thanks!  Um, you know what else you can use to get radio?  A radio.  Maybe at some point we’ll develop the technology to put one in a car.  : )

If it starts in position 7, and you rub its frontal armor, does one of the robotic legs start waggling uncontrollably?

Do you want The Day Of The Triffids? Because this is how you get The Day Of The Triffids.

My God... It’s full of... snowflakes?

Way to fudge the y-axis, Oxford.

Couldn’t come soon enough.  that’s a nasty-looking mole on the model in the photo

I’ve been predicting space war since 1978

It looks so real...